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At some point and quite probably at a lot of points and also assuming it hasn't already happened, old people like myself are going to say something along these lines (or, very likely, exactly these lines) to you: "Well, you're still young and idealistic."
It's going to sound sort of dismissive, and that's primarily because it is. What this old person is really trying to say without being even more ostensibly rude than they've already been is this: "You're naive."
But hear me, young people. Idealism and naiveté are not the same thing.
Do whatever it takes to recalibrate your internal receiver, so that when this old person says these words to you — or words like them — you do not hear "You're naive," but rather this:
"You remind me of myself, or at least a little spark of myself that once flickered many moons ago, before I put my faith in the sober wisdom of another old person, lost myself in the day-to-day grind, and let it turn me into a cog, an empty, soulless husk of my former self, a sad pawn who is incapable of believing in magic and who says things like, 'It is what it is,' as if they're rich in existential truth. I'm bitter beyond measure about this unbelievably quick and irretrievable transformation, which is why I stuff it all down inside me like gunpowder into a musket and hope it doesn't explode. But because I can't be honest with myself, I can't dare be honest with you, either. Therefore, well-meaning young person, I'm left with no choice but to bestow unto you the very same damage that has been wrought upon me. To do otherwise, to reverse the tide, would require more of me than I can bear: chiefly, to admit that I was wrong, that I have failed, and that I have wasted my brief little life in pursuit of the trivial and the ephemeral and the mundane. Instead, it's easier for all of us if you just follow my lead, like your parents did before you and like all your friends are today. After all, my generation is older, wiser and more experienced. We've been around this block a million times. Obviously you can trust us."
Seriously, young people. Fuck old people¹. Trust me.
¹ Not literally².
² Unless you're into that sort of thing.
My hotel in Beijing is located in what seems to be a shopping district, just a few-minute stroll from the intersection of two wide avenues lined with high-end shops offering mostly Western luxury brands. From my window, I can only see a couple: Chanel and something called BlancPain, which is French for WhiteBread. Little wonder the latter hasn't caught on in the States, nor that it has in China, where even the most generic cultural detritus of "Western individualism" is processed, packaged, commoditized and sold at low margins to a huge-and-getting-huger middle class starved for identity.
My combined travel time today was over 20 hours, of which I slept only two, but I decided to venture out into the city for dinner, anyway. A few blocks down the road, I stumbled into the Dong'anmen Night Food Market, where for a small handful of yuan one can feast on such delicacies as fried scorpion, silkworm cocoons and sheep's penis. Having sampled a variety of insects and animal parts on my last trip to China (and having lived to regret it), I kept moving until I found essentially the opposite end of the gustatory spectrum: a vegetarian restaurant.
Fuhuiciyuan is tucked away inside a deceptively large, multipurpose Buddhist compound, which itself is hidden down the sort of dark alley where the red lights above its door might be mistaken for something more salacious. Virtually no English is spoken, and while the menu — which gives off the impression of a catalog — is printed in both Mandarin and English, the descriptions largely eschew ingredients in favor of dubiously specific health benefits. I ordered the hypertension relief.
To be more honest, I have no idea what I ordered. I merely pointed to a nice looking picture and then the nice girl who had waited patiently next to my table while I thumbed through the entire 30-or-so-page menu smiled and typed something into a weird, yellow device that looked exactly like how you'd imagine a PlaySkool cell phone. Not half a minute later, another nice girl brought the menu back and handed it to me again.
Had they run out of the thing in the picture I'd pointed at? There seemed to be no way to know. "Order again?" I tried. She made a hand gesture that I can only assume was intended to be helpful. After a moment, she said, "You … noodles?"
Me … noodles. Hmm.
"Yes?" I answered.
And five minutes later I had noodles — a whole mess of them, Sichuan-style in a spicy pepper sauce that made my nose run and still makes my mouth water thinking about it now. But that's not all. I also had the first dish I'd pointed to, a colorful medley of … well, of largely unidentifiable vegetables. I spotted some lotus root in there, and surely one of those other things was a mushroom. To be sure, they were all delicious, but they were no match for the noodles.
Me noodles. Me definitely noodles.
After I paid (47 RMB, or roughly $8 for two large servings of delicious and probably healthy if not hypertension-fighting food) and got one of the nice girls to show me how to operate the exit ('twas neither push nor pull), I headed back for the hotel, still tired from the day's travel and now from the full belly.
Making my way past Dong'anmen, I was stopped by a homeless woman, probably a migrant farmer from the country living illegally in the city, one of millions willing to give up PRC government entitlements for a chance at Western-style free-market opportunity — which probably tells us as much about communism as it does about the human spirit.
"I'm very hungry," she said in surprisingly good English. But it was too late. Before I'd even processed the words that came out of her mouth, I'd responded purely out of habit ("Sorry") and continued pushing through the crowd. See, I come from San Francisco, where dodging the homeless is practically a sport. But in retrospect, I'm honestly not sure which is more shocking: the fact that a woman begged me to buy her a sheep's penis, or the fact that I turned her down.
I yawned, stuffed my hands in my pockets and charged across the street before the light changed, hurrying past WhiteBread on the way back to my room.
Killing time at a coffee shop the other day after missing my bus, I overheard a pair of fellow patrons bickering over the recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.
"You're blinded by your white liberal guilt," he said, wiping whipped cream and caramel drizzle from his freshly shaved upper lip.
"You're blind if you actually believe it's a level playing field," she shot back, slumping in resignation. "You conservatives are all the same."
They saw the issue — like we see seemingly everything these days — as black and white. No pun intended.
We're obsessed with choosing sides. Pepsi or Coke? Dogs or cats? Beatles or Stones? Ginger or Maryann? Ketchup or mustard? If you're like most Americans, you probably have your favorites.
In college, I actually had a roommate who got furious with me when I proclaimed to have no preference between creamy and chunky peanut butter. "They're both good," I said. "Bullshit!" he yelled, and proceeded to turn the matter into an ideological debate culminating with the old saw, "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
All these years later, I'll admit I have fallen for peanut butter — hard. I still love it. Both kinds. Why does that make some people so uncomfortable?
Nowhere is this implicit "choose a side" directive more palpable than in American politics. When I ended my journalism career after 18 years, many of my friends (and even former colleagues) said, "Well, at least now you can be open about your politics." They assumed that I had claimed to be independent all along simply for professional credibility. So when I said I was still an independent, my liberal friends decided I must be secretly conservative and my conservative friends decided I must be secretly liberal. Because it has to be one or the other, right?
The same college roommate who accused me of prevaricating over peanut butter also relentlessly gave me a hard time about my youthful idealism. "You think peace, love and understanding is all we need to make the world go around," he chided me regularly. And, while he had a point (I was a rather naïve young person), it's difficult to see in retrospect how his viewpoint was any more firmly grounded. If he said that to me today, my response might be, "Yes, and you believe in efficient markets, Jesus and Horatio Alger. Who's more naïve?"
I'm not saying you're a fool to pick a side. If you find value in doing so, great. All I'm saying is let's be honest about what it means.
In their stance on GMO foods, Republican lawmakers have trampled on long-held core conservative values such as states' rights, personal responsibility and the power of free markets. Meanwhile, in their defense of the NSA scandal, the Obama administration has flagrantly flouted one of its most fundamental commitments.
These are merely top-of-mind examples from the past few weeks. Research is hardly necessary. One needs only to browse the day's headlines to find examples of rampant hypocrisy.
At the end of day, aligning yourself with a political party in America is not unlike having a favorite color of M&M. They might seem different on the surface, but as any White House aide can tell you, when you close your eyes they all taste the same.
She's in bed, sleeping. Dog, too. It was a long week for all of us.
I'm up, reading a book. Something about the economy. It's surprisingly quiet here, perched atop a hill in the middle of the city, save for the occasional trolley bell and the fairly incessant woodwind hum of a nearby hotel doorman's taxi whistle. It's Friday night, after all.
When we moved here nine months ago, I had this idea that by now I'd know each cable car operator's distinctive staccato, and that when they rang the bell as they hauled past our apartment window I'd say, "Oh, there goes Ken!" or "Sounds like Leo today!"
But I don't. I don't know those guys or anyone else here. The city can be impenetrable, especially if you have an underdeveloped social instinct. It's crammed full of people, and you rarely see the same face twice. If you want to make friends, you have to make an impression, and that's not easy when your natural inclination is to sit in the corner like a potted plant and just observe.
On the other hand, at least there's plenty to watch.
I watch it mostly with her. And the dog. Not sure I need much else, really.
Certainly not after a long week.
So I'm just sitting here, reading my book. Sipping a cocktail. And, yet, somehow — probably because it's Friday night — I feel oddly like there's something wrong with me that I wouldn't have it any other way.
I wouldn't, though. For the first time in 43 restless, ridiculous years, I can honestly say I wouldn't.
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and — gosh darn it — people like me.
It was about six months ago that I quit my job. The work was fine, the people were nice and the pay was adequate, but my decision to walk away had nothing to do with all that. At some point, at least in my head, the benefits of sticking around were overshadowed by the opportunity costs.
"I have more to offer the world than this," I thought. "I can do better." This was my mantra. It was my inspiration. It may also have been my hubris.
I've applied for roughly four dozen jobs since then. The net result? One interview and two rejection letters, which leaves about 45 who couldn't even be bothered to say, "Fuck you."
I'm not alone, of course. Unemployment the last few years has been at its highest point since the Reagan era. In the human capital market, supply is up and demand is down. That means even if I find work, it won't likely be rewarding, either personally or financially. But I try, anyway.
How could I not? I grew up in a country that glorifies work. Only in recent decades, the Puritan work ethic has given way to a new value system, where work is judged on the basis of whether or not it's paid. In today's America, if you're, say, a mortgage underwriter who's systematically flirting with economic ruin, you're a productive citizen. But if you're a mother who busts her ass all day keeping a household running, you're just an entitled deadbeat.
Trouble is, the more signals people get that they're useless wastes, the harder it gets for them to ignore it. Being sequestered on the margins of society and having your repeated attempts to reconnect ignored feels a lot like not getting invited to the cool kid's party in high school. Only this party — the labor force — is supposed to be a meritocracy, not a popularity contest. So if you're not invited, what's the logical conclusion?
Save your sympathy; I'm not depressed. No, I'm pissed off. Not because I think I'm entitled to a job or even to an interview, but because of the not-so-faint whiff of self-importance I'm getting off the job creators. Every single job description I read is rife with smug asides about how goddamn special the company is, and (often explicit) warnings for potential applicants that if they even think about sending something as pedestrian as a resume and a cover letter outlining why they're a good fit, the company will devote all of its resources to developing time-travel technology for the sole purpose of going back to the very moment your parents first met and punching them both in the face.
The good news is those threats are idle. The bad news is that what really happens is worse: Basically, you spend a whole day of your life (sometimes more) jumping through a ridiculous series of hoops to tailor your pitch and craft it just so, taking things like design, language, overall tone and choice of medium (or media) into consideration. In other words, you work.
And sometimes you're not going to be right for the job. Or they're going to find someone better. And that's fair.
But you're telling me they can't even find time to e-mail a polite, "Fuck you"?
Fuck you.
Because while you might think you're part of the solution (creating jobs, innovating, smashing old-school inside-the-box conventions), you're wrong. For every person you hire, you're initiating or sustaining the shame spirals of dozens of others.
See, the more times I get ignored, the less I even bother to try. So let's just cut to the chase. Here's the cover letter you deserve, and may eventually get:
Dear obliviously undifferentiated company,
I'm writing about the job opening for an Assistant Deputy Manager for Mundane Activities. As you describe it, the work sounds dreadful, tedious, degrading and quite frankly beneath me. However, I have bills to pay. I'm sure you understand.
I'm a smart guy with a lot of experience in a variety of fields. While it's difficult for me to translate the industry jargon you used to describe the role's responsibilities into anything remotely meaningful, I'm confident that I can learn whatever routine tasks are involved and master whatever banal "strategy" you apply to them in order to make yourselves feel less hopelessly ordinary.
While the tone of this letter may seem brusque, I assure you I get along splendidly with people who are not assholes.
When you're prepared to have an honest discussion about what you need and how I can help, you may contact me at the number below or through any of the zillion other Internet-based methods you've no doubt heard about from your socially maladjusted nephew.
Go fuck yourself,
Previous installments:
Unemployment: Day 3
Unemployment: Day 23
Unemployment: Day 24
Unemployment: Day 100
An angry virtual mob of Batman fanboys took to their torches and pitchforks (or, at least, keyboards and mice) this week and unleashed their impotent rage on Film critic Marshall Fine, who had the audacity to not like the new movie about their favorite masked sociopath.
was amused was disgusted experienced emotions when I heard about this incident not only because it reminded me of how surprisingly shitty it can be to be a professional critic, but also because it reminded me of how much more people used to appreciate their voice when they barely had one. I'm sure there's an overly literal, no-duh psychological theory that captures this scarcity-creates-value phenomenon, but I can't remember which dead guy it's named after right now.
Internet comments are like graffiti. Every now and then you accidentally turn down an alley and stumble on a masterful artwork, but mostly it's just bored kids with destructive urges splattering the equivalent of neolithic grunts on whatever canvas is made available to them.
You know what technology has killed? Technology has killed the art of outrage. When I first started out in the newspaper biz, readers had to actually make an effort to have their voices heard. They had to sit down and write a letter to the editor. Most of them even had to do it with a pen and a piece of paper. Then they had to affix a stamp to an envelope, wait for the mail carrier and check the paper day after day on the off chance their missive was selected for publication. You see, not just any old rant was good enough for mass consumption. It had to be cogent, concise, perhaps even clever.
Hell, I actually miss the hate mail I used to get.
But now? Now all you need is a caps-lock key and a string of obscenities to reach the whole wide world in an instant. (And if you bothered to try any harder you'd probably just exceed most people's attention spans, anyway.)
Anyway, I digress. Point is, I think I kind of like this Fine guy. I might even start checking his site on the rare occasion I actually give a shit about whatever value-added deliverable has most recently sputtered forth from the day-glo plastic asshole of Hollywood. I saw an endless litany of crap pictures during my years as an entertainment journalist, and just as the psychologists would predict, the more you see the harder you are to impress.
Which is why I think there's a decent chance Fine is wrong about "The Dark Knight Rises." Just in case, though, this fanboy is avoiding reviews and saving his impotent rage for Christopher Nolan. I imagine he probably appreciates good hate mail, too.
Looking up from his keyboard, he wondered to himself, "What's another word for 'improve'?" Sitting at a desk in a long row of identical desks, he was busy writing his umpteenth newspaper article about a local event, one he'd covered annually for nearly 10 years end-on-end. "Boost? Enhance? Augment?" He'd written this story a thousand times. Or nearly 10. Whatever. "Maybe 'facelift'? No." The only challenge left was to write it better. OK, differently.
And, of course, for fewer readers.
That's when their thousand-yard stares met. Across the aisle, a colleague was similarly lost in thought. They'd begun their careers here within a few weeks of one another, when the future seemed as bright as the newsroom did electric. But today was as quiet and grey as the pages of their product, and as dull as their senses.
They shook their heads and laughed, sharing a thought without speaking. It didn't need to be said, because it already had been — at least a thousand times. "We are wasting our lives." So they didn't say anything. He just nodded in resignation, and his counterpart responded in kind.
And with the unique sort of nonchalance and simpatico that only develops from 18 years of mutual suffering, his co-worker slowly closed his eyes, and softly affected his finest Morrissey falsetto:
Oh, mother,
I can feel
the soil falling over my head
He didn't realize it then, but he would come to miss that.
Yesterday I posted a brief excerpt from a New Yorker magazine article about politics. At age 42, I'm plenty old enough to have known better. Unless you were born in the handful of seconds since I began typing this sentence, you've most likely become aware that people tend to have strong opinions on such matters. To paraphrase one of my buddy Geoff's more enduring and brilliantly reductive tweets, it seems that some folks believe this, whereas other folks believe that.
As is normally the case when I ignore my better judgment, repercussions ensued. It's been forever since I gave up monitoring my follower count (and to you last few holdouts, I highly recommend it), but the qualitative fallout still stings. When someone you respect or consider a friend judges you harshly — or, indeed, at all — you find yourself suddenly taking cover in intellectual foxholes, digging in for the coming onslaught, and preparing to defend … well, what, exactly?
Curiously, as I discovered in the exchanges that followed, not one of the feathers I'd ruffled had bothered to click on the link and actually, you know, read the article. Again, a person of my vintage probably shouldn't be surprised by this fact. But even so, it perfectly illustrates the point I apparently failed to make.
It's a point that the article's writer, Ezra Klein, made eloquently in writing about the work of a number of scientists and scholars: The human mind is biologically predisposed to promote its group's interests in competition with other groups. In other words, we have evolved into exceptional "team players." Critical thinking, as it turns out, is mostly just rationalization, mostly just a search for evidence to support the interests and goals we have already settled on. Psychologists call it "motivated reasoning."
This seems counter-intuitive to anyone who assumes that rational, reasoned debate is firmly rooted in the cold, hard facts of objective reality. It seems less so to anyone who participated in debate club or whose thoughts ever brushed up (formally or otherwise) against the concept of epistemology. We process our objective environment through the filter of our own cognitive appraisal — which includes our beliefs, attitudes and other predispositions — to create our psychological environment, and then we judge the latter to be every bit as "real" as the former. It's sort of like the rose-colored glasses theory, only not all of us see rose. (The hue my correspondents perceived yesterday was far closer to red.)
Or, as Jonathan Haidt, a professor of psychology at New York University's business school, succinctly summarized: "Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."
It's perhaps unfortunate that the excerpt I chose to post focused on the propensity of Republicans, in particular, to change their position. I chose it, partly, because it offered the most concise — and given the events of the day, the most relevant — example of this phenomenon. In the interest of full disclosure, I'll admit I also chose it partly because it seemed certain to stir debate. Having spent a few years in the 1990s writing headlines for a daily metropolitan newspaper, I am not entirely immune to the allure of editorial sensationalism, which wears a reporter's gumshoe on one foot and a marketing executive's shiny Italian leather slip-on on the other.
It was unfortunate for at least two reasons:
1) The quote may have implied, to some, that Republicans are alone in their use of "motivated reasoning," when, in fact, both sides of our national political divide engage in what I like to think of as "confirmation bias on steroids." Both sides, after all, are human — something they would do well to remember from time to time.
2) I was misunderstood, which, of course, is hardly a tragedy.
Then again, when you consider why, maybe it is. Those who made an effort to contact me (because, hey, it's easier to judge than to be curious) fell into two camps: Offended Republicans and Offended Apoliticals. Both groups made some basic assumptions about me, none of which are true.
Republicans assumed I am a Democrat. I am not. Apoliticals assumed I am a proselyte. In fact, of my 1,386 (now 1,387) posts on Tumblr, this may have been the first related to politics. But of course self-delusion feels better than cognitive dissonance, so facts be damned.
In both cases, people see what they want to see, and quite logically consider it real-world evidence in support of their established beliefs. We promote our group in competition with other groups, real or perceived. We are good team players. As unsavory as it may be to acknowledge this self-evident truth, we are just like our politicians. We are human.
It's something we would do well to remember from time to time.
The Republicans have made the individual mandate the element most likely to undo the President's health-care law. The irony is that the Democrats adopted it in the first place because they thought that it would help them secure conservative support. It had, after all, been at the heart of Republican health-care reforms for two decades.
This shift — Democrats lining up behind the Republican-crafted mandate, and Republicans declaring it not just inappropriate policy but contrary to the wishes of the Founders — [is] not an isolated case. In 2007, both Newt Gingrich and John McCain wanted a cap-and-trade program in order to reduce carbon emissions. Today, neither they nor any other leading Republicans support cap-and-trade. In 2008, the Bush Administration proposed, pushed, and signed the Economic Stimulus Act, a deficit-financed tax cut designed to boost the flagging economy. Today, few Republicans admit that a deficit-financed stimulus can work. Indeed, with the exception of raising taxes on the rich, virtually every major policy currently associated with the Obama Administration was, within the past decade, a Republican idea in good standing."—Ezra Klein inThe New Yorker
Sometimes when I'm driving and another motorist comes speeding up behind me, I think to myself, "Say, that person must be in a real hurry," and I take the earliest opportunity to move over to the right lane and let them pass.
I drive about six miles to get to work each day. It takes me roughly 15 minutes. Maybe five of those minutes are on an Interstate, the other 10 on city roads. During today's commute, I saw six fellow motorists who had been pulled over by Florida State Troopers and one more who had been stopped by a local cop.
Fucking pigs, right? Yeah. It's easy to blame the officers — and certainly at least a few of them are sanctimonious assholes who deserve our contempt — but deep down we know they're just cogs in a complex government machine. A law enforcement career is anything but lucrative, and as taxpayers we get what we pay for. Let's just say these folks didn't end up in this line of work because the brain surgery center wasn't hiring that day.
Even so, you have to wonder if those often paltry salaries are money well spent. In business, there's a concept called "conformance costs." The idea is that you spend a little bit of money up front to prevent problems rather than spending a lot of money after-the-fact to fix them. In other words, over the long run it costs less to do a little extra R&D and testing than it does to recall 500,000 cars to repair a faulty seat-belt latch. The latter would be called "failure costs." And that's what State Troopers' salaries seem like.
We put so little effort into teaching people to be better drivers and so much into punishing them when they aren't. (This would be less of a problem if we weren't obsessed with only simple, objective and arguably irrelevant metrics like "speed.") My stepfather was a driving instructor for many years, and he frequently lamented how far the standards had dropped and how difficult it was to get through to his students that driving is a privilege, not a right. They just wanted their license, sans the lesson on social responsibility — and they knew they could get it. You can be the most selfish, inconsiderate driver on the road, almost entirely oblivious to the world around you, but as long as you can execute a three-point turn and adequately navigate your way into a parallel parking space, you'll pass the test.
Have you ever seen a State Trooper pull a driver over for moving too slowly in the left-hand lane? What about for failing to use a turn signal? Probably never, and it's little wonder why. There's no easily referenced yardstick for "self-absorbed asshole," and they don't get paid enough to use their judgment.
What about for driving under the minimum posted speed limit? Again, probably never. You might reason these drivers are usually just conforming to the flow of traffic, but isn't that exactly what we're normally doing when we "speed"?
Of course, even if the average cop knows better, s/he probably feels helpless to fix anything. "I'm just one GED holder, what can I do?" Look, I get it. Change is hard. I speak from experience. When I was a hopeless drunk, I was not only one of the worst drivers on the road, but I was spending a virtual fortune on "failure costs." Each morning, I would wake up, check the driveway to see if my car was present and unscathed, then I'd make my rounds apologizing to the people I cared about for all the egregious things I'd done or said the night before.
Business analysts estimate that spending $0.08 on "conformance costs" up front can save you as much as $1 on the back end. Getting my shit together had a similar payoff. Exercising even the tiniest fraction of self-control the night before paid enormous dividends the next day. More prevention, less (self-)punishment.
It's not easy, but you figure it out. You either figure it out or you perpetuate the endless cycle of making messes and cleaning them up, and where's the point in that? Hey, I don't have all the answers, but it starts with asking the right questions.
I guess what I'm saying is, I'm here for you, cops. Let's fix this thing together.
Right now I have to go register for traffic school, though.
I'm having brunch at my neighborhood coffee shop, which is owned by a guy I used to drink beers with at my neighborhood bar. At the table in front of me, a girl who used to be my neighbor is eating biscuits and gravy with a guy who used to play drums in one of my favorite bands and a girl who used to serve me sandwiches at the deli next to my old office. At the table behind me, the guy who built most of my friends' websites is having a doughnut with the girl who makes a perfect iced latte at the coffee shop near my current office. At the counter, the girl who used to play drums in one of my other favorite bands is serving a tofu scramble to the guy who manages one of the concert venues where I used to hang out.
So what's my point? My point is simple.
I've spent way too much time in this town.
I think she might be broken.
Fans of other playoff baseball teams are making a case for you to support their colors, so I'll make mine. It's quite simple, really:
Total payroll of 2011 MLB playoff teams
New York Yankees $202,689,028
Philadelphia Phillies $172,976,379
Detroit Tigers $105,700,231
St. Louis Cardinals $105,433,572
Texas Rangers $92,299,264
Milwaukee Brewers $85,497,333
Arizona Diamondbacks $53,639,833
Tampa Bay Rays $41,053,571
How many Tampa Bay Rays players can you name? Two? Three? No matter.
As my pal notfunnyfunny said last night, Joe Maddon is the MacGuyver of baseball. Give him any nine guys and he'll figure out a way to make them competitive.
How can you not like that?
Dog's sick. Woke me up four times in the night to go outside.
Actually, that's not true. He only woke me up once. I never fell back asleep after the first one.
It's maddening, and not just because I'd rather be sleeping. You wouldn't believe how fickle the little bastard can be about when and where he'll take a shit.
Not there. Not there. Not there. Not there. Maybe there. Hmm. No, not there, either.
Suddenly I'm Jack Nicholson in "As Good As It Gets." Don't be like me, you little sumbitch. Don't be like me!
"Do your business," I say helpfully, because that's what we say. And he looks up at me with the canine equivalent of an eye roll, and I imagine him replying in John Hillerman's droll voice, "My dear man, would you hang the Mona Lisa in a frame made of popsicle sticks?"
So we move on. Him with his tongue wagging and tail bobbing. Me with my hair sticking up and eyes at half-mast. He looks happy and healthy. I'm the one who looks sick.
Which, naturally, is when the neighbor rounds the corner with his dog.
I groan a knowing groan. The neighbor's fine. The neighbor's dog, too. I don't care what I look like. I just realize what this means.
Any sighting of another dog, a human, a bird, a squirrel, a lizard, a butterfly, a particularly charming stick or, apparently, the occasional ghost means that our quest for the perfect poop-site has been completely derailed. We'll be starting over from square one. Eventually.
The neighbor nods. I mumble, "Morning." The dogs sniff one another's assholes.
They disappear inside, and for the next two, maybe three minutes, my partner glances repeatedly in the direction of their last known whereabouts. Just in case they're coming back. He's poo-shy, y'see.
Who isn't, really?
"Do your business," I say again helpfully. He shrugs it off.
What do I know about business, anyway.
I'm sitting on the couch (+2 comfort)
drinking a beer (+2 courage)
while drafting cover letters (+2 literacy)
on my iPad (+2 tech-savvy)
to make myself sound ideally suited (+2 cunning)
for jobs I don't even want (-500 self-respect).
Like every other social media lemming, I downloaded Foursquare in the summer of 2009 and started using it regularly that fall. Two years later, I still haven't unlocked the Barista badge, which you get for visiting five different Starbucks locations.
I am inordinately proud of this fact.
Remember way back when someone finally convinced you to make the switch from Windows to Mac? Go ahead and throw away the Advil, they said. Headaches will be a thing of the past. Everything just works! It's like magic! You just open the box and turn the thing on and away you go! Never again will you waste an entire day trying to get one device to talk to the other. Just put them in a room together and they'll settle their own differences like reasonable adults. With the countless hours you used to spend deciphering entries in your INI files or scouring your registry settings, you'll have more time to devote to the important things in life — your family, your unfinished novel, preparing wholesome meals, finally learning Spanish, digitizing all your VHS porn. Your whole life will be forever changed, because every single Apple product performs every imaginable function with such efficiency and intuition that even the most brain-dead simpleton couldn't possibly help becoming an overachieving model of efficiency, creativity and productivity. I mean, look at Merlin Mann. For god's sake, why would you buy another Windows machine?! You're wasting your life! Don't do it! Liberate yourself from the self-serving shackles of the troubleshooting industry! Luke! Come to the Light Side!
Remember that?
That person was an asshole.
In the event of a water landing, your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device.
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CUISINE: Um, Greek ADDRESS: 1345 Huron Street DATE: August 20, 2013
I am probably a little more like my dad than my mom. [EDITOR'S NOTE: Mom, would you agree with that? I know you are probably just giving this a quick look-see for grammatical errors/typos—that part of you, I inherited—but you can also weigh in on that comment.]
I remember sitting in my parents kitchen one day on a visit home from university, and my mom was complaining about how persnickety my dad was. She mentioned that he was irritated when she added the end of his old bottle of shampoo into his new one.
ME: Well, were they two different kinds?
MOM: Yes, but—-
MEGAN: Well, it can't be done.
MOM: (smiles bemusedly)
Also, like my father, I will continue talking to you when you're trying to leave, I will remember the name and face of every person in the history of recorded time, and I really, really enjoy full-flavored food. Spicy peppers, stinky cheese, robust curries…yes please.
It was my dad that first introduced me to Greek food. When I was in high school, my dad started taking over more and more of the evening meal preparation.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: My mom would want me to mention that she cooked the meals, and I would add VERY GOOD MEALS for many years, but my dad gets all the credit for being the chef in our family. I agree, and this is very unfair, and is yet another egregious example of the mysogynistic world we live in.]
My dad loves world cuisine, and started tackling recipes of more complexity.
I'm pretty sure, for example, that I was the only one in my class who was eating Zigni and Injera (see #1, Addis Ababa) for dinner, like, on a Wednesday.
My very favourite of these exotic dishes was Pastitsio, a greek dish that is reminiscent of lasagna, but made with lamb, and with a creamy béchamel on top. I loved it so much in high school that it became something that was on the regular menu rotation, along with tacos and, like, hot dogs and Kraft Dinner.
Because we weren't always fancy.
I thought it appropriate, knowing my dad's affection for Greek food, that they join us at The Dancing Greek.
Located on Huron and Highbury, The Dancing Greek Taverna started life as a cafe, and then a family restaurant, like Hooks or the Seven Dwarfs. Despite extensive renovations, the interior of this restaurant, located in the corner of the plaza that also houses Talize, still has a bit of that vibe. It's like you can still smell the Grandparent-bait roast beef.
My mom says this restaurant has "no atmosphere". But it does have murals. And too-bright lighting.
We were served by a boisterous and raspy-voiced waitress who described herself as "Greeklish". She was very friendly and enthusiastic, and in the nicest possible way, corrected EVERY ATTEMPT we made at pronouncing the dishes we were ordering.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: If you know her, this waitress was a Greek Sue Silcox.]
She told us that The Dancing Greek made everything from scratch, and attempted to prepare things as authentically as possible.
She then started us off with the drink specials, which were, in the most AUTHENTIC WAY, $5 margaritas.
Nothing says Traditional Greek cooking like a Mexican Bulldog in a Fishbowl.
My dad ordered it.
I, on the other hand, ordered the much more authentic tropical margarita, with blue curaçao, pineapple juice and tequila. Hey. It was margarita night.
The fam and I perused the menu, and quickly decided on three appetizers, and a platter to share of popular dishes: souvlaki, sausage, moussaka (an eggplant casserole) and of course, pastitsio. But our waitress had the sad task of informing us that they were out of pastitsio, and that they were just making more. ME: (eagerly) Is it almost ready? We would be willing to wait. WAITRESS: How's tomorrow for you? We settled on gyros instead, and started on our ginormous drinks. My mom's margarita seemed to be doused with salt, not just around the rim but in the drink, but a quick return of the waitress furnished her with a fresh one.
Dad's almost finished the fishbowl. No wonder we found it way TOO BRIGHT in this restaurant.
Our appetizers arrived fairly quickly, and the flavours made a great first impression. The presentation of things left a little to be desired, but it kind of went with the decor.
The traditional grape leaf dolmades were served warm, with a custardy lemon sauce on top. Very flavourful, with tender meat and rice inside and a fresh, briny flavour that was really impactful.
This spanikopita was some of the flakiest and lightest I've ever had. Very soft and pillowy spinach and cheese in the centre. I thought it could have used a little more garlic flavour, but mostly we just oohed and ahhed over the texture of the pastry. Wow.
Those hunks of feta were about the size of the palm of my hand. That's a great start. I love this chunky, village-style greek salad, with just peppers, cucumber, tomatoes and olives, but I am constantly perplexed why they always serve the olive in this salad intact. But I can't fault the Dancing Greek for that, they do it everywhere.
I have long held the belief that I HATE OLIVES, but lately I've liked them in artisanal restaurants in New York, at Murray's cheese bar, in this salad. The AZ Resto Tour has really clarified for me things that I'm drawn to (gnocchi, goat cheese, briny things) and things repelled by (food served at BUNGALOW).
At a certain point, I think I'm going to have to have a sit-down with Ian to break the news to him: I think I LIKE olives.
The thing is, Ian and I have very, very similar palettes. We both love spice, dislike tomatoes, have grown to love cilantro and agree that brown rice is just as good as white, and maybe even a bit "nuttier". We dislike the terms "mouth-feel" and "fork-tender", but we use them ironically to bother each other.
If I start liking olives, this is a major divergency in our shared flavour preferences.
By the way, our similar tastes also apply to clothes, movies, and people. If Ian doesn't like someone, I often realize I'm wrong and stop liking them, too.
Our Platter for Four included our choices of 8 signature dishes. Since they were OUT OF PASTITSIO, my very favourite of all the Greek dishes, we went with souvlaki, gyro with rice and fixin's, Greek sausage, and moussaka with fingerling potatoes.
The gyro meat was flavourful, and the tzatziki was delicious, but came with wayyy too little. Like, a thimbleful of tzatziki on a large platter of rice, gyro meat, and as it turned out, pretty dry chicken and sausages. We asked for more, and were given some, but told they "don't really do that".
The fingerling potatoes were nice, as we're the few veggies, but the real star of this plate is that beige blob up top. While it didn't look like much, this eggplant, potato, beef and béchamel sauce, with flavours of dill and oregano, was sinful.
MOM: I would trade everything else just for a bigger plate of this.
I think our overall feeling was that the appetizers outshone the entrees, with the exception of the moussaka.
And since the portions were not very large, we got dessert. The baklava was honey-soaked and flaky, and very sweet, as is to be expected. For $7, we got two large triangles of the good stuff. Our only complaint would have been about the myriad of plate detritus. Caramel, chocolate, whipped cream and a cherry, as well as powdered chocolate covered every inch of the plate.
As my mom said, "It's baklava. It doesn't need all this other…STUFF."
The Dancing Greek is large, friendly, and not busy at all on a Tuesday. But despite the cheap drinks, our total bill came to about $160, which is maybe more than the lack of ambiance and some of the quality would dictate.
I'm not going to fall in love with any Greek restaurant that fails to serve me pastitsio. But I did have some last week: on my birthday, Ian slaved away in the kitchen all day to make me some. And it was DELICIOUS.
Because I married a guy who can really cook. Just like Mom.
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Things that don't make you less of a feminist:
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Things that do make you less of a feminist:
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That's it. I'm done. I've tried to be patient. I've told myself that the smart people of conscience in your party will rise up and wrest control from the ignorant, selfish ideologues and hucksters currently dominating your party at every level. But today was the last straw. I have no patience left. You are an embarrassment and since you obviously lack the will or desire to do what's right for your country or for the long term prospects of any of the philosophies you advocate, you have forced me to accept that you are nothing more than a malignant cancer on this country and since you are not responding to treatment, you must be removed from the body politic.
While I am a registered democrat and a self described left leaning moderate, I have voted for Republicans many times in my life when I have believed that the Republican was the best candidate. Sometimes I didn't agree with all of the positions of a candidate, but I found something about them that made me believe they would be the best stewards of the responsibilities of government.
Never again. I will never vote for a member of your party again. Ever. Not on the national level, not on the state level, and not on the local level. I won't be fooled again. You have shown that you cannot be trusted with power. Not even a little. You can't even be trusted to act responsibly as a minority party.
You need to be wiped off the political map to make way for a real ALTERNATIVE to the Democrats, not just OPPOSITION to the Democrats.
And in case you're wondering how you got here, here are just a few highlights:
Being on the side of people who, among dozens of insane beliefs, insist that people should be allowed to sell guns to other people without any background check. So if my neighbor fails a background check and can't purchase a gun because they killed a guy in Texas, it's okay for me to buy a gun and sell it to him.Insisting in Arizona that confiscated guns, or guns received through gun buy back programs CANNOT be destroyed, they MUST be sold back to the public. Because…seriously there is no logical element to this but I swear it's real. Supporting high capacity magazines by arguing that lower capacity magazines would make shooting at shooting ranges less fun. And that's just today. And just guns. In the past few years you've also given us: Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Science, Michelle Bachman, Birtherism, Voter Suppression, Forced Vaginal Ultrasounds, Ted Cruz, Infrastructure Investment Opposition, Rick Scott, Discredited Studies On Austerity (check today's headlines), "Skewed Polls", and 47%. Not exactly a record of excellence. So do us a favor and disband. What will follow would almost have to be better. Sincerely, Ag
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The card has just enough tensile strength to bend around a slight corner normally blocking the way. This will only work on doors where the workmanship was cheap and unprofessional and usually (but not always) installed before the advent of credit cards.
This comment is cheap and unprofessional but factual. :)
Credit cards are only for people that understand how to use them. I only use credit cards to pay for what I need to live on. I never pay nterest on credit cards. A friend was going to put $7,000 down on a new car, but she knew how I use my cards for points, so she gave me the $7,000 and I put the down payment on my credit card. I had the $7,000 in my checking account , so I payed off the bill when I received it. Citi Card have some geat rewards, if you know how to use them. If you spend $700 in 3 months, they will give you $200 dollars in gift cards. About 5 months ago they had cards that you could get $600 and $400 back if you spend a certain amount in 3 months. I had about $6,000 in real estate taxes, so I sent for 4 credit cards and split my bills up among the cards. I payed off he cards when I received the bill. I have $900 worth of Home Depot and $650 worh of Wal Mart gift cards that I carry in my wallet that I have received from using my credit cards. I will receive another $200 gift card in about another month.. I was in Home Dept several weeks ago and purchased over $100 worth of items and never cost me one penny. I am going to use my $650 Wal Mart gift cards to purchase a new TV for the bed room.
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Although the contract may have been shredded by greedy companies driven by greedier financiers, the sense of entitlement on the part of white men remains intact. Many white men feel they have played by the rules and expected to reap the rewards of that obedient responsibility. It's pretty infuriating not to get what you feel you deserve. That's the aggrieved entitlement that lies underneath the anger of American white men.
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Thirteen snared in Laconia-area drug bust
Charges ranged from mere possession of marijuana to sale of hard drugs such as heroin and oxycodone.
Laconia police Capt. William Clary said the people arrested include users and street-level dealers. The arrests capped investigations that involved sales and earlier-executed search warrants, he said.
"This is what we've been doing for several months," Clary said. "Some people thought they were free and clear. They'll never know when we come knocking."
He said the arrests will make people think twice about selling drugs in Laconia.Those arrested range from 19 years to 65 years of age. Seven gave residents of Laconia; others were from Belmont, Meredith, Franklin and New Hampton.
All were released on their own recognizance, and Clary said he hopes to win indictments against them when the Belmont County grand jury meets later this month.
The arrests were made by officers with Laconia and Belmont police, the Attorney General's Drug Task Force and the U.S. Marshal Service.
The thirteen are:
- Roberta Rama, 20, of Laconia. Possession of marijuana.
- Ryan Tuckett, 32, Laconia. Possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
- Betsy Page, 54, Laconia. Sale of marijuana in a school zone.
- Ronald Steele, 19, Laconia. Possession of marijuana.
- Bradley Swinton, 65. Possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in a school zone.
- Sarah Smith, 25, Laconia. Conspiracy to sell crack cocaine.
- Stacey Gates, 37, Belmont. Sale of heroin. Criminal liability for another in the sale of heroin.
- Elisabeth Gates, 30, Belmont. Sale of heroin.
- Kerry Defeo, 25, Meredith. Transporting oxycodone in a motor vehicle.
- Alisha Morgan, 31, Franklin. Three counts, sale of cocaine.
- William Butler, 31, New Hampton. Three possession counts: heroin, Suboxen, Gabapentin.
- Garrett Brue, 19, Laconia. Conspiracy to sell oxycodone.
- Nicholas Ross, 23, Belmont. Sale of oxycodone.
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Ayotte's gun vote: 'Disgusting' political bullying
When the Manchin-Toomey amendment to Sen. Barbara Boxer's gun control bill emerged as the best hope for getting any gun legislation passed this year, many conservative activists pressed Republicans to kill it by filibuster. Ayotte voted to bring it to the floor for debate. Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, among others, urged the Tea Party to remember that vote, suggesting that Ayotte deserved to be primaried out of her Senate seat simply for allowing a bill with questionable support to be debated.
Ayotte wound up voting against the bill, which failed on a 54-46 vote (both sides had agreed to a 60-vote threshold for passage). She reasoned that it would impose a hefty burden on gun dealers without producing a justifiable increase in public safety. For that the left has accused her of not caring about the deaths of children.
At a town hall meeting in Warren on Tuesday, Erica Lafferty, daughter of the Sandy Hook Elementary School principal killed last November, asked Ayotte about her vote. "You had mentioned that the burden to owners of gun stores that these expanded background checks would cause. I'm just wondering why the burden of my mother being gunned down in the hall of her elementary school isn't as important as that?"
Ayotte explained her vote and explained that the background check bill would have done nothing to prevent the Newtown shootings. That fact has been pointed out by numerous news organizations. Lafferty was unmoved.
"It's disappointing and disgusting that she can pretty much look me in the eye and try to justify my mother's murder and the murder of five other educators and the murders of 6- and 7-year-olds," Lafferty told Politico afterwards. "It's disgusting."
No, what is disgusting is deliberately mischaracterizing someone's position for the purpose of portraying that person as a willing accomplice to murder. That has been the left's strategy since Newtown. It is a testament to the Senate that a majority of its members, including Ayotte, did not cave to such bullying.
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Roasted Garlic and Chipotle Salsa
James Carrier
This spicy, smoky salsa is thickened with a toasted corn tortilla. Tina Williams serves it with simple quesadillas made with white cheddar cheese and corn tortillas. The salsa will keep for about a week in the refrigerator.
Yield: Makes about 3 cups
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 37
- Calories from fat: 17%
- Protein: 1.4g
- Fat: 0.7g
- Saturated fat: 0.1g
- Carbohydrate: 7.8g
- Fiber: 1.9g
- Sodium: 13mg
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- 1 head garlic
- 4 tomatoes (about 8 oz. each), rinsed, stemmed, and cored
- 3 dried New Mexico or California chilies (about 5 in. long), rinsed, stemmed, seeded, and coarsely chopped
- 2 dried chipotle chilies (about 1 in. long), stemmed
- 1 corn tortilla (about 6 in.)
- 1 cup fresh cilantro sprigs, rinsed
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 1/2 cup diced red onion
- Salt
- 1. Cut garlic in half crosswise and wrap both halves in one piece of foil. Cut three of the tomatoes in half crosswise and place, cut side up, on a 12- by 15-inch baking sheet. Bake garlic and tomatoes in a 400° regular or convection oven until garlic is soft when squeezed (unwrap to test) and tomatoes are shriveled, about 45 minutes. Dice remaining tomato and reserve.
- 2. Meanwhile, place dried New Mexico and chipotle chilies in a small bowl and add 1 cup boiling water. Let stand until chilies are soft, about 10 minutes.
- 3. In an 8- to 10-inch nonstick frying pan over high heat, cook tortilla, turning once, until crisp and browned on both sides, 3 to 4 minutes total. When cool enough to handle, break into 2-inch pieces.
- 4. When garlic is cool enough to handle, squeeze cloves from skin into a blender or food processor; discard skin. Add roasted tomatoes, chilies and soaking water, tortilla, cilantro, and lime juice. Whirl until smooth. Stir in onion and reserved diced tomato. Add salt to taste.
- Nutritional analysis per 1/4 cup.
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Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm
AbstractThis paper provides a framework for addressing the question of when transactions should be carried out within a firm and when through the market. Following Grossman and Hart, we identify a firm with the assets that its owners control. We argue that the crucial difference for party 1 between owning a firm (integration) and contracting for a service from another party 2 who owns this firm (nonintegration) is that, under integration, party 1 can selectively fire the workers of the firm (including party 2), whereas under nonintegration he can "fire" (i.e., stop dealing with) only the entire firm: the combination of party 2, the workers, and the firm's assets. We use this idea to study how changes in ownership affect the incentives of employees as well as those of owner-managers. Copyright 1990 by University of Chicago Press.
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Volume (Year): 98 (1990)
Issue (Month): 6 (December)
Pages: 1119-58
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- Oliver Hart & John Moore, 1988. "Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm," Working papers 495, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics.
- Hart, Oliver D. & Moore, John, 1990. "Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm," Scholarly Articles 3448675, Harvard University Department of Economics.
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- Sergiu Hart, 2006. "Shapley Value," Discussion Paper Series dp421, The Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
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