COLUMBIA SPY

The tiger swallowtail flew away the moment after I shot this.

 Major electric bill  After seeing all the piles around town recently, I believe this warrants a repost.  Welcome home  I know the feeling.  Britain  Scene of a recent tragedy  A sales gimmick by an ambitious artist?  Seen at the bottom of Locust Street  This one, too.  Looks like Mom and Dad are packing heat. So that's where it starts.

One of the flags flying in downtown Columbia on Labor Day.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408591/American-ethnicity-map-shows-melting-pot-ethnicities-make-USA-today.html

TIME Will you be barbecuing this Labor Day, or slaving away at the office? According to new survey data from Bloomberg BNA and Beyond.com, many Americans will have the somewhat ironic pleasure of laboring on the day that’s meant to commemorate the “social and economic achievements of the American worker.” The above chart from The Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) highlights the differences in legal requirements for paid time off in the developed world. The United States is a major outlier among its developed peers when it comes to mandatory time off, and that ends up affecting poorer workers more than anybody else.   According to the CEPR , though 23% of American workers don’t receive paid time off, that number jumps to 49% for the bottom fourth of wage earners. NYTIMES Republicans in the House of Representatives continue to staunchly oppose public efforts to reduce unemployment, repeating their assertion that government policies themselves are th...