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What do you think the value of the White House is, just as piece of property? According to the blog on Zillow.com: $292,470,000, a drop of almost $24,000,000 or 7% from last January. After the health care fiasco, the value of the actual Presidency might have dropped a similar amount…

More economic song parodies by Marcy Shaffer of the web site Versus: You’ve got the Fed (sung to the tune of “You’ve got a friend”) Lyrics: This is when. From your den. You call men. Who then all call Ben. Squeal you’re breakin’. You’re caught in the red. Too big to croak ’cause markets could [...]

Found on Craigslist: Human soul for sale I am interested in selling my soul or trading it to someone that could help me acquire holiday gifts for myself and family. I have been short on cash due to the low amount of work available here in sunny Florida and would greatly appreciate the help. You [...]

We’ve visited the blog They Pay to Kiss Your Feet before. Here’s another heartfelt post about being long-term unemployed.

10 months.

it has been 10 months since i lost my job. 10. that’s almost a year for those of you who are counting. (i am.)

since then, i’ve had two temporary gigs. one at Sprint. and one at an actual ad agency. doing what i love to do. i’ve also landed a couple of independent freelance clients. one is a national not-for-profit. it gives me a few steady hours of work per week. and it’s rewarding. but it’s not 40 hours. there are no benefits. and anyway, it’s been TEN months.

We’ve posted before about hard-hit Detroit, which by some counts is sporting a 45% unemployment rate. The following excerpts are from The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit, a play by Mercilee Jenkins, which received a staged reading at Detroit’s Matrix Theatre Company last year. The play is intended to be performed by two actors, a black [...]

…check out The Recession Bride, which is about a “blogger trying to survive the recession, layoffs, pay cuts, and plan a wedding.”

Duellling blogs covering state politics in Massachussetts, Red Mass Group and Blue Mass Group, tell the story of yesterday’s election: First, from Red Mass Group, a site “founded to revitalize the right-wing community in Massachusetts.” The People’s Victory A month ago they mocked you. Three weeks ago you were a mild inconvenience. Two weeks ago [...]

Among Democrats, the weeping, gnashing of teeth, and finger-pointing is in full bloom today. For Republicans, it’s all gloating, triumphalism, and “Told you so’s.” Comments from readers of the New York Times Room for Debate blog, Ezra Klein’s blog on Washington Post, and the political polliing and analysis blog FiveThirtyEight: If Democrats cannot pass health [...]

Yesterday on the blog FiveThirtyEight, Tom Schaller wondered if the Democratic candidate in the Massachussetts election would be more aptly named “Martha Choakley.” As you probably know by now, she lost 53% – 46% in a heavily Democratic state.