Abbott & Costello Take on the Real Unemployment Rate

COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.

ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s about 8 percent.

COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?

ABBOTT: No, that’s 16 percent.

COSTELLO: You just said 8 percent.

ABBOTT: 8 percent unemployed.

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Director stirs up fest with Nazi comments

CANNES, France (Reuters) – Danish director Lars Von Trier’s comments on Wednesday at a press conference in Cannes at which he jokingly declared himself a Nazi caused consternation at the film festival and offense among Jewish groups.

The Danish maverick is at the annual film festival with his competition film “Melancholia,” a grand cinematic statement on life, death and the universe which wowed a packed audience [...]

The Great Global Debt Prison

by Giordano Bruno of Neithercorp Press

The Great Global Debt Prison

By Giordano Bruno

Neithercorp Press – 2/4/2011

Tense and terrible times inevitably summon an odd coupling of two very different and difficult human conditions; honesty, and brutality. Certain painful truths are revealed, and often, a palpable fury erupts. Being that times today are particularly tense, and on the verge of being spectacularly terrible, perhaps we should embrace [...]