Wait, it's Monday again, already?

Back in late July, Phil Nugent had to shut down his sharp, funny website, the Phil Nugent Experience, until he got his computer upgraded. book/daddy jokingly suggested that Nugent was out dancing for nickels, and I demanded to know why someone hadn't thought of passing the hat to prevent such a loss.

Then the Experience came back online last month and all was aces.

But "oh my prophetic soul," to quote Hamlet. Or maybe it was "me and my big mouth." In any event, the finances have gotten bad enough, Nugent has put up a donation link. You can help out via PayPal.

I just did. And I'm unemployed. Or freelancing. Same diff.

"The Anchorage Daily News has eliminated the positions of Books and Food editors and sent that longtime staffer to the equivalent of McKinney [a small town north of Dallas] as a G.A. reporter.

This week's only mention of books is a single column announcing self-published books by Alaska writers. No national coverage of any sort."

It's hard to confirm this from the Daily News website -- because at the moment, there's precious little about books, period.

But the college grad/higher earners also pay more taxes. Ergo, George Will says, conservatives are right when they argue that taxes are discouraging people from sending their kids to college.

Says Andrew Price: You are fucking kidding me.

As Baudelaire complained of hash: "It gives with one hand and takes away with the other." So ... given the curent market, fewer of us, it turns out, are testing positive these days.