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As we move into The Great Depression 2.0 (my grandparents have been drinking rancid orange juice and cheaping out on toilet paper for decades in preparation) we consumers have to look for new cheap amusements.

Thank goodness for miroblogging. It’s free (as long as you already have expensive equipment) and highly addictive.

Moreover, there are new formats every couple of weeks to stave off the Facebook Fatigue effect. First Tumblr, then Soup now….

Streem.us.

It’s so new the code is still wet, and just this morning they added the ability to not look at it in those garish soccer-flag tones. Just click on “I hate these colors.”

Our grandparents wandered the continent and hopped trains looking for work in The Dustbowl. Until Roosevelt and Harold Ickes, Roosevelt’s then-secretary of the interior, created public work projects like the Blue Ridge Parkway to boost the economy.

We can tiptoe through our abandoned gas-fueled cars and abandoned suburbs gazing into our iPhones blogging for Obama to create a public works national Wi-Fi project to pump billions into the economy and save us all.

Streeming, of course, the whole thing.

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