While we’re finally back to a net positive number of private sector jobs since the start of 2009, state and local governments have shed over 600,000 workers—12,000 in the past month alone. Nine out of ten of those jobs were in local education, which is down over 200,000 since 2010.
Net Monthly Job Growth, 2008 - presentGraph of the Day: Public Sector Layoffs Are Undermining the Recovery - Blog of the Century

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wilwheaton: neil-gaiman: Well, I know that I’d watch it… ezliconfuzzed: Please, PLEASE someone make this movie. You can have all my monies. If this doesn’t exist in my universe, I will build a machine to let me travel to the universe where it does exist… AND I WILL NEVER COME BACK. Yes please, followed by American Gods. Thanks.

wilwheaton:

neil-gaiman:

Well, I know that I’d watch it…

ezliconfuzzed:

Please, PLEASE someone make this movie. You can have all my monies.

If this doesn’t exist in my universe, I will build a machine to let me travel to the universe where it does exist… AND I WILL NEVER COME BACK.

Yes please, followed by American Gods. Thanks.

ezliconfuzzed

early-onset-of-night

politico: Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage came just a day after voters in North Carolina approved a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and after two top members of the Obama administration publicly voiced their own support for gay marriage. Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that he is “absolutely comfortable” with men marrying men and women marrying women, while Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in an interview Monday on MSNBC that he supports gay marriage.And the two are not alone. In a Gallup poll released Tuesday, 50 percent of Americans said they support the legalization of gay marriage, while 65 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of independents said the same. But support for gay marriage doesn’t reach across party lines – among Republicans surveyed, 27 percent said they support legalizing gay marriage. The greatest irony is that the self-proclaimed party of small government is the least tolerant of keeping the government out of the private lives of its citizens.

politico:

Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage came just a day after voters in North Carolina approved a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and after two top members of the Obama administration publicly voiced their own support for gay marriage.

Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that he is “absolutely comfortable” with men marrying men and women marrying women, while Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in an interview Monday on MSNBC that he supports gay marriage.And the two are not alone.

In a Gallup poll released Tuesday, 50 percent of Americans said they support the legalization of gay marriage, while 65 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of independents said the same. But support for gay marriage doesn’t reach across party lines – among Republicans surveyed, 27 percent said they support legalizing gay marriage.

The greatest irony is that the self-proclaimed party of small government is the least tolerant of keeping the government out of the private lives of its citizens.

politico

HBO

note-a-bear:

racismschool:

seloftheearth:

Let’s get a Boardwalk Empire-style show about the Harlem Renaissance. 

I don’t think anyone understands how much I need this in my life.

I might actually get HBO to watch that.

seloftheearth