BFF in the NYT

I’m not sure how exactly this happened, but my friend/roommate Josh is quoted in an editorial in today’s New York Times:

“Josh Riman graduated from Syracuse University in 2006. “I had a job at a great advertising agency,” he said, “but was laid off in 2007. I found a job the next day, amazingly enough, and worked at this next advertising shop for about a year and a half. Then, on my birthday, the place went bankrupt. We all lost our jobs.” Since then, Mr. Riman has been doing freelance and “pro bono” work. He has been unable to find anything even reasonably secure.”

It’s true! Not mentioned in the article is how after he lost his job on his birthday, I went bowling with him to cheer him up, and it turned out the bowling alley was closed for renovations. And then he got his foot caught in a bucket and a car drove through a puddle, drenching him.

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

The Onion’s sharp satire makes me really happy - but occasionally they are scooped by reality, and that makes me really sad.

Their headline/article: Obama’s Declaration of Swine Flu Emergency Prompts Pro-Swine-Flu Republican Response made me laugh, until I remembered that this joke has already essentially come true.

Glenn Beck declared that he wouldn’t be getting the H1N1 vaccine and neither should anyone else, claiming (with no factual basis):  ”People just feel in their gut, ‘I don’t trust these people any more…’ They think our government could be so incompetent that they don’t have any clue as to what they are doing.” So he’s choosing to nurture distrust of the Obama administration even when it means potentially endangering his viewers’ lives.

Hilarious! Print it!