DL Open Thread Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022
There was so little news yesterday that media has been reduced to carrying the brainless ramblings of America’s most disgraced former president. His latest fantasy included the baseless notion that he’s immune from prosecution, which he most definitely is not.
The Brazilian criminal George Santos, who got elected to Congress thanks to the incredible ineptitute of New York’s Democratic Party, tried to brush off his entirely phony life story in an interview with the New York Post. He apparently thinks he’s going to get away with it.
Economists must be easily surprised. They’re just now figuring out that the US labor shortage is due to retiring Boomers who aren’t coming back to work. The article uses as its examples a pair of 69-year-olds, raising the question, why is anyone surprised that people that old would retire? And what took those folks so long?
Anyone who has watched Wilmington’s the News Journal shrink over the past 20 years will find little surprising in this story of how Gannett has reduced Rhode Island’s once-proud Providence Journal to a pathetic remnant of its former self. Its Sunday circulation, once over 220,000, is now 33,000, and it’s down to fewer than three dozen journalists. Having worked for Gannett for 25 years I can attest that it’s a shit company that bears a large share of responsibility for the decline of American journalism.
That’s enough for now. The floor’s yours.
Greetings from the retired Boomers! Retired 7 years ago to become my late wife’s caregiver, and I must admit the thought of returning to work does nauseate me to some extent, as I’ve had enough total bull sh*t in my life. The money would be nice, but still I find actually living what’s left of my life to be far more attractive.
Told my friends at Trader Joe’s that I’d come back to give out cheese samples for a mere $50 an hour.
For some reason, they haven’t taken me up on that yet…
Loved that Stilton cheese with honey!
Just got a heads-up that former State Rep. David Bentz has been hired as Deputy Directory of Health Care Reform at DHSS. Don’t know what that means, or what he’ll do, but I DO like David Bentz.
…tried to brush off his entirely phony life story in an interview with the New York Post. He’s going to get away with it. (just wanted to fix your typo)
With the new year nearly here I will be 8 years from retirement and for the first few years we will travel with various disaster and recovery orgs to help as needed. This will allow us more time for direct volunteer efforts beyond the sporadic ones now and allows us to travel the full country. After that itll be a couple years living abroad. And maybe after returning i will get a pt job doing something i enjoy – working in a library or book store (if they still have them) or a garden center but it certainly wont be anything with responsibility
I don’t know if there was a thread for it, I might have missed it since it dropped 4 or 5 days ago, but I really liked the latest Highlands Bunker podcast, which was a thoughtful discussion about the past year and what next year may see from the WFP.
Also, of note, a Millennial humblebrag, this is the only podcast I can’t listen to on 2x speed. It’s always dense and it’s good that it forces me to listen instead of just being noise.
Cheers, Andrew!
Hey, check out what our man Jordan just published in the Call.
https://delawarecall.com/2022/12/28/uds-offshore-riches/
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That’s a hell of a great article.
Time to hold UD’s $$’s hostage to the disinfectant of sunshine.
The ultimatum: Open your books to a legit audit of how you use your state funds, or lose those state funds.