Comments on: Miscellaneous Thoughts on a Labor Day Weekend

By: Dan Edelen

Dan Edelen — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:08:55 +0000

Jason.

I thought it was dull and purple.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:15:27 +0000

What did you hate about blue like jazz?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:53:06 +0000

The average American can vote, though, unlike the average wet mouse, though with some underhanded voting tactics, I would not be surprised if a wet mouse did vote. But the past few Presidential and gubernatorial elections have had such razor-thin margins of victory, I don’t take too many pundits seriously. When a candidate wins by one to two percent, how can anyone know why that candidate won?

I am the only person in my extended family who works retail. Everyone else is either retired or works a professional job. So I have a hard time making extended family get-togethers. I do work a job now that gives us Thanksgiving and Christmas off. When I worked at a gas station, customers would ask why I was working on a holiday — as they fueled up and asked for a pack of smokes.

By: Dan Edelen

Dan Edelen — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:37:09 +0000

Then again, maybe my cup is half full.

You know, even when I was writing that line I was envisioning someone going the half full route.

Seriously, dude: the average American asked, “Joe who?

{Insert “The average American is about as sharp as a sack of wet mice” diatribe here.}

And the Wall Street Journal shrunk the size of its newspaper!

And the typeface, too! Man, I used to love opening up that big spread of paper. Made me feel more manly. The WSJ was the last bastion of “Woman, can’t you see I’m reading paper!” kinds of men who used the thing as a shield to keep the family out for even fifteen minutes of the the day. Talk about a sanctum!

And bummer on the retail holiday loss. I was in retail for a few years. I even had to work Thanksgiving Day one year at a computer store I worked in. Thanksgiving Day! Retail – I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it, either.