Excellent and timely reading material, thank you.
quicklime
joined 2 years ago
I just literally can no longer afford alcohol. It's partly a relief to just no longer have to think about it or spend time on it, though I do miss the treat and the relaxation that it can bring. But like many others facing poverty, I sometimes feel a little angry at my fellow consumers who kept right on buying beer and everything else as food and beverage prices rose about 30 percent in five years. I wish everyone had been like "sorry, no, you're not seriously charging that much, forget it." Then again, as a child in the 70s I thought for sure consumers were going to reject the move to plastic food packaging. D'ohh.
Depressing that someone downvoted you for any part of that.
This, and also I downvoted for the inclusion of the utterly useless "Here's what you need to know".
... or Rudy's hair gravy.
Not to mention the Rolling fucking Stones immortalized Bakersfield in song. ("Far-Away Eyes")
Authorities responding to reports of multiple victims in shooting at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
I'm only guessing, but school these days is where you learn that your economic dreams are dead on arrival and that your generation won't be able to stop any of the currently unfolding disasters for the human race. Or at best that you'll get a nice degree but it won't pay for itself even if you can find anywhere you can stand to work and afford to live.
It will, but something tells me it won't be the way we would hope.
Also known as International Buy-Nothing Day.
Never thought I'd see an example of Darrell Issa being the reasonable person in an argument. Bad times...
There was a short time around 1977, during which my wildest fantasy of the best and happiest thing that could possibly happen to me (short of truly fantastical and nigh-impossible things like going to Disneyland, which I wasn't yet sure really existed) would have been to receive multiple packs of Fruit Stripe gum.