Back in Februay 2001, when I had an even more half-assed bloggish thing than this page here, I noted the annoying media trend of "Look at the fun-loving unemployed who think getting laid off is funnest fun ever." I also said:

"...here's another prediction: at least some of the laid-off dot-commers who treat their unemployment like a grand vacation will run out of savings and then fail to find a job as quickly as they thought they would. Then there'll be a spate of articles about that phenomenon."

It took a year and a half, but boy, was I right. It seems like every day, some business page or another (and I read a lot of them) has an article about how finding a new job takes a long time and is rilly, rilly hard. Hello.

This seems a good time to point to some of my Media Unspun bits from an earlier, but no less cranky, part of the month:
Labor's Love Lost: Ah, Labor Day. The holiday that honors unions and the American worker. And what an ironically mediagenic Monday it was in 2002. From corporate abuses to stagnant unemployment, this just isn't what the AFL-CIO had in mind.
Market's September Song Is The Blues: We suppose it's technically called "market timing," not superstition, but investors were all but buying rabbits' feet and horseshoes to ward off the bad omens of a lousy September open.

If you've been pitying me while reading my Tales of the Working Poor, feel free to turn that pity into an Unspun subscription.