Andrew J.

Burn the World Down

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:26:59 -0500

This report was released this month: Why are Recent College Graduates Underemployed: University Enrollments and Labor Realities”

Some highlights:

• About 48 percent of employed U.S. college graduates are in jobs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) suggests requires less than a four-year college education. Eleven percent of employed college graduates are in occupations requiring more than a high-school diploma but less than a bachelor’s, and 37 percent are in occupations requiring no more than a high-school diploma;

• The proportion of overeducated workers in occupations appears to have grown substantially; in 1970,fewer than one percent of taxi drivers and two percent of firefighters had college degrees,while now more than 15 percent do in both jobs;

• About five million college graduates are in jobs the BLS says require less than a high-school education;

Later this month, this show will premiere on CBS:

The premise:

From reality show masters Michael Davies (“Who Wants to be A Millionaire,” “Watch What Happens Live”) and Mark Burnett (“Survivor”, “The Voice”), the series gives candidates selected from around the country a chance to win positions at some of America’s most prestigious companies. Hosted by Emmy Award nominee Lisa Ling (“The View”), each episode will feature five candidates participating in several rounds of elimination challenges before a panel of executives as they compete for their dream job.

Unemployment: The TV Show.

This is some Hunger Games-level shit, right here.

So here’s your choice, youth of America: you can sweat and study and go into debt, bankrupting both your parents and yourselves in a desperate fight to secure a ‘dream job’ that will probably never materialize,

Or, you can go on television and go through the hollow motions of playing the game, knowing all the while that the outcome has been determined beforehand, your actual worth means nothing, and this whole shebang is just a charade rigged by the same one-percenters who most vocally propagate the meritocratic myth that props up their stranglehold on social, political and economic power.

NO. NO. ENOUGH. SET IT ALL ON FIRE.

livelymorgue: July 23, 1972: An unpublished picture of the...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:38:44 -0400

livelymorgue:

July 23, 1972: An unpublished picture of the Jacob Riis Park parking lot in Queens. Photo: Michael Evans/The New York Times

Friday Afternoon Boogie Woogie (belated) Take a shower to this...

Fri, 04 May 2012 22:21:01 -0400

Friday Afternoon Boogie Woogie (belated)

Take a shower to this shit

Django Django - Storm

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:51:42 -0400

Django Django - Storm

On the Banks of the Owchita

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:34:19 -0400

On the Banks of the Owchita

Medicine Head - When Night Falls

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:38:14 -0400

Medicine Head - When Night Falls

whatifoundatworktoday: Chicken Glazers For some reason I...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:52:14 -0500

whatifoundatworktoday:

Chicken Glazers

For some reason I can’t get enough of this

newyorker: “Wanderlust” and the New Comedy At this point,...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:20:04 -0500

newyorker:

“Wanderlust” and the New Comedy

At this point, nothing short of a huge dick bursting through the screen would shock an audience with comical sexual audacity.

- Richard Brody on “Wanderlust” and the American comedy, which “is, once again, awaiting renewal”: http://nyr.kr/zoFo5q

Video

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:29:37 -0500

Here are my two favorite parts of the Huffington Post's interview with J-Woww and Snooki.

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:40:53 -0500

joemande:

and then, moments later…

keyboardpubes: I’m a little embarrassed at how easy it was for...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:29:34 -0500

keyboardpubes:

I’m a little embarrassed at how easy it was for me to register callistagingrich.tumblr.com

“Many master bathrooms will have tubs of hand-carved stone from Italy and televisions next to...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:19:00 -0500

“Many master bathrooms will have tubs of hand-carved stone from Italy and televisions next to the bidet.” —cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/big-deal-the-world-at-its-feet/

“…and uh, the bidet, is it in good working order, the, uh, the bidet?” —http://www.hulu.com/watch/132870/saturday-night-live-bidet

SHRED THAT

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:23:32 -0500

SHRED THAT

Actual Water - La Violence sur Les Champs-Elysees

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:15:00 -0500

Actual Water - La Violence sur Les Champs-Elysees

(2/2)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:20:39 -0500

(2/2)

A couple more for your Friday (1/2)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:19:36 -0500

A couple more for your Friday (1/2)

Friday Afternoon Boogie Woogie Miracle Legion - All For The Best

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:59:46 -0500

Friday Afternoon Boogie Woogie

Miracle Legion - All For The Best

Lucia Pamela - Dear Me (ca. 1969)

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:53:17 -0500

Lucia Pamela - Dear Me (ca. 1969)

Laura Ingraham, doin it wrong

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:16:00 -0500

Laura Ingraham, doin it wrong

Silver Quintette - Sinner’s Crossroads This is the theme...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:38:13 -0500

Silver Quintette - Sinner’s Crossroads

This is the theme song to WFMU’s Sinner’s Crossroads and it is really awesome