RFC on Teen Employment

From The Mess That Greenspan Made (see linkbar), the following graph:



Now, I have just as much loathing of Gen-Y as does the average Gen-X loathing Gen-X'er, but even I don't have a good explanation. Is it really possible that teenagers are really this spoiled nowadays, or with so many illegal immigrants working low-end jobs is there some new "those jobs are for poor people" meme out there, or ... ?

Please speculate, or, even better, opine.

Nuff Said Dept: Inflation and the "Record" Stock Market

'Nuff Said on Putin's Russia

In Texas

Between work and all the myriad things going on to turn this place into a home, there's been no time for nice things like blog-posts, work on my programming language, etc., but we are in Texas and maybe close to 2/3rds of the way moved in.

I for one welcome our new Saturnian masters.

Does this picture of Saturn's pole look a little, um, hexagonal to anyone?