I have this thing for the Washington Post. I love it as a newspaper, mostly because it tends to lean the way that I lean, and because even if I don't agree with everything its writers say, at least I know it's done intelligently, unlike many other news sources I could name, both print and digital. The Washington Post also owns Newsweek, a ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm certainly not one to take the writer's block thing from LJ, but the question was oddly apropos and I felt the need to post something, so, here we go (and this is in no particular order):

You're packing your bag for that other desert island-the one with no electricity-what 5 books do you take with you?

1. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

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From the Charleston Daily Mail:

Banks charging fees on unemployment benefits

As if it wasn't bad enough that our economy is in the tank, millions of people are out of work (and counting!), and unemployment is only expected to rise. Banks then decided to step in and make some serious money off of the country's pain. Yes, we know the banking system in ( Read more... )

Well, it seems as though LJ is the place to be, these days, and so, I'm getting on the bandwagon. Plus, I need somewhere to vent myself and the tone of my other blog is a bit too...restrictive for that. I'm not really the kind of person that enjoys blogging about my daily life, so mainly, I'm going to be posting things that make me happy, make me ( Read more... )