You can't make this stuff up, folks

[Old Croc]

The unemployment rate is at an 18-year low, but our Senator Brian Schatz says the goal of the 2017 Tax Cuts And Jobs Act was to make more people unemployed. Because a couple of companies are planning to lay off staff over time, “The tax cuts are working exactly as intended,” Schatz tweeted Sunday evening.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

It can take months or even years for changes in interest rates, tax laws, or rescue packages after the 2008 economic collapse to take effect.

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard