Rightly or wrongly, a job at McDonald’s is perceived to be one of the lowest rungs on the capitalist ladder—so much so that the term “McJob” came into prominence in the 1980s. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a McJob is “an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects.” McDonald’s Talk, hosted on LiveJournal, provides a [...]

So you can go straight to the source(s), two more economist blogs: EconLog This provocative blog written by three libertarian economists includes posts like Would Milton Friedman have advocated last year’s bailout of banks? and a cost/benefit analysis of torture. EconomistMom.com Diane Lim Rogers works for The Concord Coalition, an organization that’s hawkish on the [...]

B-B-Bernanke & The Fed

Feel like auditing some economics courses without leaving your room? University of Oregon economics professor Mark Thoma has posted videos of his course lectures online. The courses are Monetary Theory and Policy, History of Economic Thought, and Econometrics. Watch them at your leisure, but in the interest of class decorum try not to do so [...]

Fifteen video journalists from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism have produced some great reporting on the effects of the recession on individual New Yorkers. The videos are archived on Downsize NYC, which describes itself as exploring “not only the statistics but also the sensibilities of the economic crisis. Our stories consider how this recession [...]

…the worst dramatization of a governmental agency function goes to the FDIC Channel’s “Introduction to FDIC Deposit Insurance,” starring “Ashley” and “Grandpa.” And here to present the award are Big D of the Freedom For You and Me channel, Pennsylvania congressional candidate and tea-party participant Jake Towne, the Fat Libertarian, and this guy “proclaiming the [...]

Savvy entrepeneurial initiative or cynical rip-off? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA is offering to take care of the pets of born-again Christians forced to leave them behind in The Rapture. We are a group of dedicated animal lovers, and atheists. Each Eternal Earth-Bound Pet representative is a confirmed atheist, and as such will still be here [...]

The blogosphere is filled with commentary on Ted Kennedy, vitriolic and hagiographic, and a portion in-between. THE AFL-CIO blog has two Kennedy items up, one on his fight for universal health care and the other on his support for unions and working-class issues. For those who want to remember him in the best light, his [...]

The web site Jobacle is holding a contest calling for haikus about work. Turns out there are a lot of work and job-related haikus on the Web. Some faves germane to the current economy, gleaned from here, here, here, here, and here: Poverty Is So In Bad economy means no big bonus for me. Must [...]

Seven pages of people’s personal photos of the Senator.