i am sick of reading economic forecasts ... they always have the meat of the news (e.g. this and this is up from last year), but they always have to tack on some opinionated bullshit about whether the economy is recovering.

i'm pretty sure they teach at journalism school that one factor does not determine our GDP and thus does not determine whether our economy is "slumping." just save the "oh the economy is showing signs of recovery" crap because no one wants to hear it and no one cares. OH GOD. MANUFACTURING IS UP. THAT SURELY MEANS OUR ECONOMY IS RECOVERING.

SHUT UP!

also, while i was waiting at the dmv for my license, i was thinking about all the spanish-americans (?!) ... and thinking how wrong it was to say that they were all mexican. i mean, i know asians who get all pissy when you call them chinese (when they're korean)... shouldn't we hold the same standards to our southern brothers and call them "nicaraguans" and "panamanians?"