Verbal extremism in defense of civil liberties is no vice
posted by Jennifer Abel at 11:06 AM
Jennifer Abel is an American writer who began her career in print media three minutes before the Internet killed the industry. After starting at a small Connecticut daily she moved to the Hartford Advocate, an alt-weekly where her journalistic coups included infiltrating a Furries convention and working on a phone sex line (which fired her six hours later). Since then she’s written for, or been reprinted in, dozens of print and web outlets, including Playboy, the Guardian, Salon, AlterNet, Mashable, the Daily Dot and pretty much every website with the words "cannabis" or "legalize it" in the title. Once, when she was young and naïve and needed the money, she unwittingly edited SEO copy for a spammer. However, in light of the spambot comments she’s deleted from her own blogs since then, she figures she’s more than repaid that particular karmic debt. Jennifer is currently looking for professional, non-spam writing jobs; interested editors are enthusiastically invited to e-mail her.
4 Comments:
Okay, it just freaks me out that you can do that. That doesn't sound anything like you. You had someone write that for you, didn't you? Or wait...maybe that was a normal article, and I've suffered a mild stroke and lost my ability to detect snark...
If you read between the lines, you can detect faint whiffs of my true nature wafting through -- quoting the "This is the bestest time EVAR!!! to buy" realtor right before quoting statistics which suggest said realtor is speaking ex recta, for example. But this was both "my first purely economics" article and also "my first-ever article at a new publication," so for both reasons I took a cautious line rather than toss my usual high-level snark around.
Well, considering my old house is now worth less than what I paid for it 25 years ago, I just don't see how much lower prices can fall.
Depending on where you live, prices could fall as low as "zero." Look at Detroit, for example -- all my life it's been synonymous with "economic basket case," yet back when my parents were dating, it was one of the richest cities in America. And the city today is full of mansions where exceedingly rich people lived up through the 1960s, but now you could buy that mansion outright with the loose change in your sofa cushions. (Of course, paying the back taxes on that mansion will cost you roughly Bill Gates' net worth, and the Detroit wonders why nobody wants to come live in their city. But I digress.)
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