Short Stories, Long Odds

From Brett Marty, via fivethirtyeight.com (which, if you are into stats porn like I am, they have your mathletic dreams fulfilled):

Outside Obama’s economic policy speech in Toledo, Ohio.

Sometimes I think if it all goes really really sideways, Diana and I will pack up the menagerie and head towards the sea. I remember thinking that you could do far worse than beach bum living when I was a teenager, and now faced with the prospect of widespread bummery I think the ocean sounds pretty inviting if the wheels come off in a global sense. Plus I bet Molly would love the beach.

I mean, look at that.

I think, after several weeks of utter interal silence, I’m actually starting to get the political writing bug again. I blame Teddy Kennedy and Hillary Clinton for awesome speeches.

And great writing from my former editor about a certain Massachusetts senator doesn’t hurt, either.

I was just writing a little for some analysis work, and in describing a recent bill for a gas pipeline passed in Alaska, I wrote “State legislators in Iraq…”

You know, Iraq, Alaska, same difference.

1) I’m going to disable the Twitter Update autoposts thing and just write more. I had a busy week last week, but as I only have my analysis work for London and my thesis to occupy my time now – as opposed to those things plus a full time job – I will have the time to dedicate to this that I had originally intended.

2) I heard a Subway commercial on the radio today. It promised me that no matter how high gas prices get and how bleak the economy looks, I should rest assured and confident that the American Dream lives on at Subway Restaurants because they are giving you some foot longs for five dollars all summer.  The idea that the last vestiges of the American Dream exist now within the folds of a mediocre meatball sub is a depressing one, but thankfully it is not one that I think is entirely accurate.

3) A New SSLO, coming at you after this.