I was late getting an Ipod, but now I love the thing.
Yeah, I like the convenience of listening to music that way, but what I really enjoy are the podcasts. One of my recent discoveries is a podcast that plays great old radio shows from the 1920s through the 1940s.
I was listening to one this morning that featured a detective with a tough female sidekick. It got me thinking about the recession, and what it might mean for women.
OK, it's become kind of a cliche to talk about how brilliant the TV show "Arrested Development" was. Still ... Man! "Arrested Development" was brilliant!
I had a bunch of friends over last night, and we were watching it on DVD. It works as a skewed family sitcom, of course. But last night, I was really appreciating it as devastating political satire.
It ran for three seasons, starting in 2003. During that time, it thoroughly dissected everything that was wrong with Dubya-era America. Watching it now, I find it eerily prescient in its examination of the rampant idiocy and greed that laid the groundwork for the current recession.
