Wanderlust-o.

I made posole for dinner tonight. It's a stew of pork shoulder and hominy, spiced with cumin, chili powder and jesus. Ok, he wasn't in it but it reminded me how amazing Mexican food is. I should move there and learn how to cook the entire pantheon of mastery over defeat that defines Mexican food.

Self-Employeed Tuesday

Sitting snug at my kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee and listening to the rain, I realize that I haven't put on any pants (that's trousers for you foreigners) yet. And it's 11 am. But I've been working. And that makes me decide if working from home is the best scam ever, then working for yourself is the biggest scam in the history of scamola. It's the boyband of jobs: you hate them, but how did they get their hair so perfect?

God I love it. No office, and therefore no uncomfortable office birthday party in which everyone stands around and makes small talk before trying to grab a piece of cake and slip away unnoticed. No boss, so really, if you want to search craigslist for mopeds or read what the interweb has to say about building your own sauna before you answer any emails, then that is what you do. I mean, you have to do work sometime, but let's be honest: out of the 40 hours one spends at the office, most of the work can be completed in like ten hours.

Actually, let me correct myself: all of the work can be done in ten hours. Or at least that's how it worked out for me. I am sure that some of you are out there saving babies and nursing the rainforest back to health and recycling whales or whatnot, but I was making a lot of flow charts. Granted, I get paid for about ten hours of work, but whatever. Either this will work out or it won't. It's about fifty-fifty right now.

An Open Letter to the POTUS

President Obama-

No, really, you are doing a great job. Is it hope we can believe in? Unclear, but what it seems to be so far is soft hearted pragmatism. That's all I ask for. Let's look at the mess we have ourselves in and decide to do the best with it that we can, and let's try to make the solution not destroy the lower or middle class.

I think it is hilarious to listen to Fox News parrot on and on about how forcing the CEO of GM out signals a new “socialist blueprint” that the agenda is following, or to read The Economist drone on and on about interfering in the free market while glibly calling it “Government Motors”. I can't believe that I just lumped Fox News with the Economist, but there it is.

Guess what: I don't care if the President made the CEO quit. It affects me not at all. I hope you start firing people right and left. It makes the business world jumpy that “some egghead in Washington”, to quote a Fox talking head, could analyze the situation, see that appropriate remedy had not been implemented, and told the boss-man to get out. That is exactly what happens to every worker who doesn't do what their boss asks of them. They get fired. And as soon as the car companies took tax dollars to cover up their own years of failing management, they became employees. See? Some other egghead in Washington was also able to clearly analyze a situation. It's not rocket surgery. Keep up the good work.

Love,
Badger

PS. I would totally love, like OMGZ, some health care if you could hook that up.
PPS. Tell Michelle to show those arms off. She looks best when she is holding up that flag for working motherhood that people seem to want her to drop. Maybe that's how those arms got so toned.

Carpet we can believe in.