Though the topic of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to “rid the world of nuclear arms and to bridge the divide with the Muslim world” is a hot one, kudos to Sudarshan Pattnaik for creating this sand sculpture on the Golden Sea beach in Puri, India to commemorate the occasion.
Too bad he ran out of room for that last letter!
For every job opening, there are now 6.3 people available to fill that position. It is the toughest job market since 1950, according to the Department of Labor.
The numbers don’t add up:
14.9 million people are unemployed.
7.2 million jobs lost, plus the 125,00 per month needed to keep up with population growth.
Fewer people are now facing job loss.
Unemployment will reach 10 percent early next year and drop back to 8.6 by 2012.
Output is recovering, but without the recovery in jobs. Employers laid off huge numbers, but productivity and output continued to jump. Employers are content to see just how far they can push productivity up without hiring again.
At one point or another, we all do it. We argue, fight, hurt each other, say things we never thought would come out of our mouths, do some major damage, only to kiss and make up once the guilt takes over. Does it work? Not always.
That kiss and make up doesn’t always work was proven yesterday in Louisiana when a woman bit her boyfriend’s tongue so hard that she was covered with “a large amount of blood” when she was arrested.
Of course it’s a “he said… she said…” incident. During an argument, the woman whacked her boyfriend over the head with a beer bottle – he said. She said she didn’t bother with a beer bottle, but admitted to biting his tongue when he tried to kiss and make up. Not only did he try to kiss her, he spoke lewd, sweet nothings in her ear that set her off once again. She bit down hard.
Take it home: If you’re going to try the kiss-and-make-up tactic, be 100 percent sure both of you are ready to make up… Or else!
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