I think he's right too. I'm miserable when I take more than a month off from doing any sort of productive work. I couldn't imagine going years without producing anything of value; I'd go insane.

I've watched this happen to my grandparents, who retired in their fifties. After decades of leisure they've regressed to a child-like state. They sit around and stare at the television all day, and create dumb family drama for lack of any better stimulus. Their minds have rotted. When they talk about the world it's clear that they live in a hostile and incomprehensible universe. Their big event each day is to drive to Walmart and walk the aisles for an hour.

Fuck that shit. I'm never retiring.

It sucks when you've had absolutely no control of your life and suddenly find yourself no longer receiving orders from your labor masters. There's nothing to do if there's no one to tell you to do it against your will.

I've been unemployed for almost a year. I'm pulling out of depression, but I think that there's something to be said for having shit to do.

I don't owe the world fucking busywork, but at the same time, there's no weekend if there's no work week. I think I'm going to start volunteering if this interview doesn't work out.

My one remaining grandparent has spent her retirement learning how to cook. She somehow went 65 years without learning how to cook beyond even the most nominal of meals, and now she's deeply into relatively hip cuisine that she's picked up. Granted, she has to cook in a Rascal Scooter, but it's better than nothing, and she's loving the life. The only problem she has is she's cooking really esoteric "foodie" stuff that is tailored to hipsters in their 20s and 30s, and none of her elderly friends like it.

Granted, she spent the 1940s flying the mail in Alaska, the 1950s editing a newspaper and the 1960s dealing with a divorce case that was along the lines of "Bleak House" with my wastrel Hugh-Laurie-in-Season-3-of-Blackadder millionaire grandfather, but she's a fantastic feminist hero, even if she herself doesn't quite understand that she is.

There is no reason for this to be on right wing watch.

That sort of comment was better when it would prompt lifelong college liberals to unload the full weight of their their English degrees in hopes of refuting it.

Sometimes, I miss Sean, and the rest of the spazbutts :(

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Yeah, neoconservatism is pretty tragic.