Cheap Blogging Crutch 11.16

G.M., Citing Progress, Reports Loss of $1.15 Billion
Uhhhh, congratulations? Looks like you'll be able to afford to fund a couple more rounds of those Howie Long "That's a nice truck....for a homo" ads. Even better, you're going to start paying back those government loans...five years ahead of schedule. You know, not that I want to be negative about your success, after all, losing $1.15 billion is great news, but do you maybe want to wait for a year without the cash for clunkers program pumping business your way before you declare your business fixed and start using your cash reserves to pay back loans? No? Well if history has proven anything to us, it's that Detroit knows best.

Health bill foes solicit funds for economic study
With the job market still very rough we like to take the opportunity to pass on any job opportunities we can find to you, the consumer. So if you're an economist, the honest men and women at the Chamber of Commerce have a job for you. All you have to do is severely damage your reputation as an economist in order to author a BS paper about how health care reform will destroy the economy, kill jobs, and grope everyone's mother while she shops for American flags at the Wal-Mart. This or picking up roadkill off the highway are the only two jobs left, so pick one and take it. No, you're right, picking up roadkill lets you keep your dignity.

The Worst is yet to Come: Unemployed Americans Should Hunker Down for More Job Losses
Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini is here to disabuse you of any notion you have of the labor market getting better. Don't think the labor market is getting better? Well he's also here to disabuse you of the notion that the labor market is anything less than an apocalyptic clusterfuck. On the bright side he says that it can be made better if the government mans up and takes some bold policy actio...HA, I can't even finish typing that. No, we're fucked, we're all fucked royally.

God, the Army, and PTSD: Is religion an obstacle to treatment?
The Boston Review takes a look at PTSD in the war on terror and how the Bush Administration made it more difficult for soldiers to get help for it because several officials in charge of the VA and DOD assumed that most instances were hoaxes and the ones that were real could be solved by some combination of faith and Jesus. You thought you knew about every rotten asshole in the Bush Administration? You didn't, because you didn't hear of guys like Paul Sullivan. As Atrios put it, "It's like the job recruitment process [in the Bush administration] involved advertising for 'the worst people ever born in the history of the universe.'"

LHC to Finally Start Next Week, Again
That's right, we're back on schedule to murder God/create a black hole in Europe. They've fixed the pipes, re-magnetized the magnets, cooled everything down, unclogged all the particles from the various particle holes, and are ready to shatter all religion or collapse the earth into a singularity. On the bright side, the coverage of this and the recent success of 2012 should give Roland Emmerich an idea for his next "destroy the world" movie.