Wonkette
- Maybe George W. Bush will get that war he wanted with Iran. [New York Times]
- After dropping for a few days, the price of oil began to rise again following Iran’s disclosure that it had test-fired some missiles. [Reuters]
- Neither US presidential candidate is flip-flopping on Iraq, because the “facts on the ground” have been flip-flopping as well. [Washington Post]
- Barack Obama admits he is sort of sick of campaigning. [Los Angeles Times]
- Many economists who signed a letter in support of John McCain’s “Jobs for America” economic program do not support key portions of McCain’s economic platform, or even the candidate himself. [Politico]
- Former clothing retail drones find themselves compulsively re-folding clothes in stores and at home, leading to marriage strain and weird looks from strangers. [Wall Street Journal]
DAILY BRIEFING
That is correct. However, there is something terribly wrong with Slim Slack Skank.
Jobs for America is sounding more and more like the economic equivalent of Intelligent Design where the experts “supporting” it don’t really or aren’t experts.
Holy shit, I totally do that folding thing! The worst is waiting for someone to try things on in a store I have no interest in, I just end up wandering around and straightening everything compulsively. That being said, WHY is the WSJ reporting on it? I mean, from a financial standpoint, don’t us crazy folders save stores like a bajillion dollars in free labor every year or some shit? Oh, wait, they don’t mention that because this hack wrote this article on her Blackberry yesterday morning while sleeping off a tequila bender, which doesn’t lend itself to cogent analysis. I say feh.
How long is that chick in the purple jeans going to be here?
How sad it is that the chronic [i]folders[/i] are the ones that receive their sympathetic story in the press… but no one scandalizes McDonald’s. After all, it was their own house statistic that said, by the year 2000, one out of five people in the U.S. would have worked for the company at some point in their lives.
And now we know why we must fill up our own goddamn cups.
Twenty years later, I still fold my clothes the Navy way. It’s primary purpose was to conserve storage space, which is at a premium on ships.
Q2:
You REALLY have it in for the Slim Slack girl.
It kind of sounds like the McCain campaign asked the economists for autographs, but the piece of paper they were signing later had an economic proposal typed on it so it would LOOK like they all supported it.
It’s how I got married.
Everyone picks up habits from their places of employment, it’s not a big deal.
For example, I was a world renowned assassin, and now everytime I’m on a rooftop I just absent-mindedly snipe pedestrians. Just something to keep my hands busy, y’know, muscle memory and all that.
Walter Sobchak: That was the WSJ? I thought it was the Onion.
Let’s see… a bunch of academics signing onto something without actually looking into the specific details, and then acting all surprised when they’re called on to be accountable. Sounds accurate enough.
I’m often amazed at what They attribute to the rising and falling of gas prices or the stock market. How the hell do They know that because Iran fire some missile that gas prices rose? Did They ask every person who buys and sells gas what They were thinking after reading the news? Probably not. Did They notice that gas prices changed and looked at some article on the front page of USA Today and put an equal sign between the two? Probably yes.
toastandlove:
I like your thinking. May I suggest sniping mall sluts who walk-n-text or loud cell phoners?
Brutus Harlot: It’s a common mistake.
I read that headline as “There is Nothing Wrong with Properly Folded Jesus”. With a little more coffee, I could do something with that. Instead, I hand it to the able commenters.
Levi’s just posted a quarterly return of $1m, down $45m from this time last year, so expect a lot more people to go from being professional folders to amateur hobbyist folders.
Former retail clones can fold my clothes any day. But if they start saying, “Hellooooo, how are YOUUUUU today?” in HR-trained saccharine-speak, then I will officially go nuclear.
Darehead: whoops, I meant *drones.* Or did I?
I wonder why they don’t change the slim-slack girl’s colors. I know it says there are over twenty colors, but I’ve only seen purple. You don’t suppose they mean 20 colors of purple?
The Incomparable Tiny Valdez: And is she ever going to fix her fugly hair?
Must be a seriously slow news day for that WSJ story to come into being.
pondscum: She looks like an unfortunate return of 80’s fashion to me. Not very attractive, but better than the pic of McCain right below her.
Skank! I’ve had it with the purple ass, high heels, cheap halter (or something) top, bushy eyebrows and bed-head!
At least change the color of her ass!
(And wipe that look off your face, young lady!)
So was the Nixon administration the neocons’ Gap? Because they all wander around thinking they’re Henry Frickin’ Kissinger, compulsively trying to solve the world’s problems with a combination of veiled threats and illegal carpet bombing — folding, in other words, individual international problems into their monolithic anti-Muslim (formerly Commie) worldview.
I’ll take Slim Slack girl’s doopah over the mugs of Jesse Helms or Dick Cheney any day!
Servo: I actually find myself strangely attracted to slim slack girl…maybe i just have a thing for purple pants…I wish they were corduroys….
Yes, I’ve chosen such an honorable profession…
in the waning days of the empire a new vision of the Goddess appeared..Slim Slack Girl…
purple was her color, and her backwards glance a harbinger of things to come…
The compulsion to fold is a side effect of all the X they took in the 90s.
I’m sick of purple uglyskank too.
I teach English to foreigners, so I compulsively correct people’s grammar and spelling. I get told to fuck off a lot.
re: the purple panted one. I’d hit it.
Can we get those facts off the ground and onto a desk or something? My back hurts every time I have to bend down there to see them
mitch42: The Jesus that can be folded is not the true Jesus.
Mahousu: Yes, but possibly it’s the origami Jesus of many folds or the Holy Trinity Jesus of tri-folded-separate-but-equal. Uh. Whatevs.
Mahousu: what about the handy PocketJesus(TM)? It can be folded into a wallet-sized Jesus to carry with you everywhere! (Is that the Lord in your pocket or are you happy to see me?)
“{Obama} told a customer at an Indiana diner two months ago that he had lost 7 or 8 pounds. He said he was learning to get by on four-to-five hours’ sleep.”
You know, Barry, most of us reg’lar folks GAIN weight when we are stressed. You, meanwhile, get svelter. Elitist bastard.