Following Fort Bragg Ron's example of noticing the little things as well as the big, I spotted this marking on the sidewalk of Fisher Street, and wondered about it. Finally had a moment to check out what Wikipedia has to say about the WPA, which, for any readers who might not happen to be up on their American History, was a government program created to provide jobs for people during the Great Depression (now there's an oxymoron for you.) I knew they built schools, and I knew about the Federal Writer's Project, vaguely, but I didn't realize they also built streets and sidewalks and Camp David (which was called "Shangri-La" when Roosevelt was President, which strikes me as weirdly fanciful.)
Speaking of presidents, here's another WPA graffito on Garfield Street:
In the news today were more stories about the recession - it's official, folks, we're in a recession. Usually the word recession has the word "mild" in front of it, but I haven't noticed them using any qualifiers this time around. Wonder what that means.
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We've been hearing about your recession ad nausem down here. Our stock exchange persons stand in front of the stock exchange pointing anxiously at the Dow Jones's effect on our own thingy. All I know is the AUD is near parity with the USD and not before time.
Sorry about the whole ad nauseum thing - it's about time for the nutters to start emerging again from the woodworks with cardboard signs hanging from their necks that say "Repent! The end is near!"
Doomed! We're all doomed, I tell you!
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