The Great Recession

Periodically, Andrew Sullivan's blog, The Dish, links to a chart comparing unemployment rates for all the recessions since World War Two. The latest update is here. (Unemployment rates are compared in the second chart.) Have a look. Can there be any doubt that the name, "The Great Recession," is well-deserved?

The Poor Man's Comfort

Some of the people I live among would appear to exist on the margin of society. I was passing one such neighbor today when something occurred to me:

No matter how poor you are, they can never repossess your tattoos.