While about the US, I think this article is as pertinent regarding our situation in Portugal. Today our government starts negotiating with the IMF and the EU. They’re going to ‘help’ us, ‘support’ us, ‘bail us out’.

Just as “War is Peace”. Instapaper

This year’s winners include an Economics Prize awarded to the executives of Icelandic banks “for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa — and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy” and a Peace Prize awarded to the scientists of Bern, Switzerland (the city where Albert Einstein devised his Theory of Relativity, no less) who discovered full bottles of beer do less damage in a bar fight than empty ones.

That’s right, not even China wants Hummer. Ouch. (via The Null Device)

N’o Procrastinador Profissional lanço-me contra o fenómeno do trabalho não remunerado ‘oferecido’ aos licenciados.

- A rant against the no-pay internships that constitute 80% of job ‘offers’ for young people with college degrees here in Portugal. You can attempt to read it. It’ll seem funny even though it isn’t.