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When I was a kid, I once stumbled upon the movie The Ten Commandments on TV. Exposed mostly to cartoons and sit-coms, I sat there in bleary-eyed awe as the 3 hr 40 minute film just kept on going and going and going. Characters disappeared, story arcs rose and resolved, and the thing still wouldn’t [...]

Tip o’ the hat to Laura at EconomyStory for sending us Sub-prime the Musical. The site consists of a series of podcasts by a college student named Madison Koshy, who created them from research she did on the causes of the credit crisis. Naturally, she then wrote song parodies to illustrate the concepts she had [...]

“I think recruiters are mostly people who couldn’t get real jobs doing valuable stuff like marketing, financing, and waxing stripper poles.” From the blog Acute Unemployment Syndrome, a post called Recruiters gone wild. The writer is an unemployed MBA. For those of you keeping score at home, I have now been on 10 job interviews [...]

Another session with the Evil HR Lady finds her engaged in some straight talk with a job seeker in sales who is well-connected but has two DUIs on his record. Will my high level connections overcome a DUI? I have a friend pretty high up at a major company (in sales) who had recently talked [...]

Keith Hennessey offers a post in which he pairs one headline about the health care overhaul from this year and one from last and asks you to guess which is which. The article links, which provide you with the correct answers, are in the post itself. Politico: President Obama takes reform on the road AP: [...]

Our last post featuring the graphics of Mike Licht of NotionsCapital… Click on an image to see it full size. Fun With Photoshop I and II here.

Of all the dysfunctional state governments, California’s may be at the top. California has a $20 billion budget deficit, but the state cannot raise taxes or pass a budget without a 2/3 majority vote in the state legislature. That law was enshrined in the state constitution in 1978 through Proposition 13, which also capped property [...]

Evil HR Lady is a blog written by a human resources professional who answers questions about the workplace sent in by readers. Here’s one from someone asking what legal recourse a family member who worked for the same firm for 35 years and was laid off with just four weeks severance might have. Laid Off [...]

From an article in the Boston Globe last October titled “Panhandlers move from street to Internet.” …part of a new phenomenon among the homeless: digital panhandling. Some homeless people now have blogs where they seek donations. There are web forums where the homeless exchange ideas, sites where people can donate money, and bulletin boards where [...]