Some context. Net private sector job losses under Bush: -646k. Net private sector job gains under Obama: +332k. (via @JustinWolfers)

Fark reports the sad news: Madge is dead. Janice Miner was known all over the world for her portrayal of Madge, the wisecracking manicurist in Palmolive commercials. For 27 years, the ads featured Miner praising the  [more...]

Someone just came to my front door carrying a bird; she found it on the street in front of my house under the front tire of a pickup truck that had parked there. I’m not sure what she expected me to do with it; I  [more...]