Well, I am over 300 pages into All the King's Men, and nothing has really changed. It is a good book, but overlong by a fair amount. I can see why some people would start reading the book and then toss it aside saying, "The hell with it. Lemme watch the movie instead." Then all they have to do is decide which filmed version to watch. (Have a preference?)
Today I finished getting my five job contacts for the week. Governor Demon Seed's new rules force people to make five job contacts a week now, or else your unemployment benefits are gone. So now people have to apply to jobs that make no sense because they have no related experience or skills, just to please the Governor. Somehow, this makes him a "job creator" — or some such tea party nonsense.
What I think is really going on is that the state legislature was put up to the new requirements by the lobbyists for the companies that do all that personality testing for other companies. Anybody in the job market knows exactly what I'm talking about… the endlessly repetitive tests we are forced to take that ask you six ways from Sunday if you ever take any time off from work, or even better, use 40 out of 75 questions to try and trick you into agreeing that it is okay to steal from your employer. My guess is that these companies get paid by the head for this testing. So, they get the governor and legislature to force people to, in effect, take more tests per week, driving up revenue and profits for the testing companies. Nice work if you can get it.
And Governor Hell Spawn wonders why his approval ratings smell almost as bad as the foul, putrid breath he uses to tell us how wonderful he is. Makes me wanna puke.
But I'm not bitter.
How was your day?
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