Interesting graphs and charts department

[ZenGum]

Classic, when the heck did you become a big-government socialist?

[classicman]

lol.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by classicman

While the press cheers on every sign of private sector job creation, little attention is being paid to public sector job destruction.
As the Economic Policy Institute reports, while there has been an increase of some 2.8 million private sector jobs since June 2009,
public sector employment (federal, state, and local governments combined) has actually fallen by approximately 600,000.
This is a very unusual development as the figure below reveals.

And 2/3 of those 600,000+ jobs were held by women.

[Griff]

I know a number of teachers who will be unemployed in the Fall regardless of talent.

[Gravdigr]

If a shitstorm develops over this, please begin the shitstorm in a more appropriate thread, so we don't hijack this one. I thought I'd seen a Trayvon Martin Shooting thread, and would have posted it there, but, I couldn't find it.

I didn't make this, I didn't even go looking for it. And I've lost the link.

I did find it interesting, even if I don't completely understand the numbers:

[Spexxvet]

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[monster]

[classicman]

from here

[Gravdigr]

Maybe a not so scientific survey...interesting though.

from collegehumor

[ZenGum]

Could someone explain the spliff/joint/blunt distinction?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Spliffs usually have a rollrd heavy paper mouthpiece.

Blunts are usually cigars (or cigarettes) hollowed out and filled.

[Gravdigr]

A spliff around here is when you use the diagonal rolling technique. As opposed to a straight up joint. Supposedly leaves no roach.

A blunt uses a emptied cigar paper, or, alternatively, a wrap. A wrap is just an empty (sometimes flavored) cigar paper that was never a cigar.

YMMV

[Undertoad]

urbandictionary.com says

a quality cigarette rolled with both tobacco and marajuana, initially popular on Europe's Iberian Peninsula

additionally, the term has been adopted to mean any high quality or well-rolled marajuana joint

Around me the term has been used to indicate a comically large joint perhaps even rolled with newspaper.

As your webmaster, I advise against smoking newspaper.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Just goes to show you can't get a definitive answer from dopers.

[classicman]

cuz they all forgot.