Here’s a post we dug out from late 2008 from a blog called “Life after my Layoff” and sub-titled “The economy stole my journalism job, but not my love of writing.”

I watch “Avenue Q”…and nearly cry in my seat
Last weekend, my boyfriend treated me to a showing of Avenue Q, a raunchy Broadway musical [...]

When Republican Scott Brown won the special election for Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat last month, it through a giant monkeywrench into the Democrats’ plan to pass a comprehensive health care reform bill. We covered the responses of both the online Massachussetts Republican community Red Mass Group (elation) and the online Massachussetts Democratic community Blue Mass Group (despair).

Yesterday, Brown — and a handful of other Republicans — voted with Democrats to block a Republican filibuster on the Democratic jobs bill. From the Los Angeles Times:

So, with Brown contributing to half a political victory for the Democrats (the bill still has to pass the House), what do Massachussetts Republicans think of Brown now? Some comments on Red Mass Group

From the OddTodd site, home of yesterday’s Laid off cartoon, another regular feature: Friday’s Boss From Hell. A few sample entries:

Team meeting

Our software team has regular meetings on Tuesdays from 11:00 am to noon. Our boss sends out the agenda about a half hour in advance. Sometimes he’d forget to send it, and sometimes he’d cancel but forget to send the cancellation. We tried to break him of both habits.

From The Unemployed Life on Recessionwire:

The Starbucks Guide to Job Status (Andrew Lipstein)

Roman bath houses, or thermae, were massive public spheres (the Baths of Diocletian covered almost one and a half million square feet) that served as public gathering spots for every cross-section of society. Today, we have Starbucks.