Catcher In the Rye Author passed away

I don't care if it's sad good- by or a bad good good-by, but when I leave place I'd like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse~ Holden Caufield, Catcher In the Rye

J.D Salinger died yesterday, age 91 in N.H. He's the man who articulated so much in an intimate way the voice of the angst driven youth.

Weird. Two days ago, I just felt like reading his famous book, Catcher in the Rye for the gazillion times already . So I read it past 12 midnight, then last night, I saw a news ticker that the author passed away. Well, the man who started the angst driven alienated teen, died a recluse and has never allowed his famous book to become a movie. Now that he's dead, I wonder if see we'll one.

If you haven't read Catcher in the Rye... you probably don't like to read or you weren't forced to read it or you've never had an English paper to submit. I guess. It's still my favorite book...along with so many others but.. Catcher n the Rye is the one I always read and read and read just re read it. Kinda like To Kill a Mocking Bird which I always read a lot too (but somebody borrowed it before from school some years ago and never returned it).

Back to J.D Salinger. I don't know anything about him. He is a literary icon. A recluse who guarded his privacy to the very end. He gave something to think about and ponder with the books he wrote. The characters in which we immersed ourselves. His books will always remind us what a great author he was.

Love Will Triumph over Hate - PM Berlusconi

Via BBC: The brief message from Silvio Berlusconi was posted on the website of his People of Freedom party. Prime Minister is set to leave the hospital after being struck in the face by a model replica of Milan's cathedral after a rally in the city on Sunday. Read more

Th other day I watched the news and saw the whole thing. Yikes. Pity the PM. One can't help but sympathize; Bloody face, broken nose and broken teeth. The guy who threw that statue must have some mental disorder. Hm.. shoes would've been tolerable? (think Bush incident.. hehe).

I'm still puzzled why Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

What has he done? There still war in Afghanistan! Soldiers getting killed! Terrorist acts still continues. There's no peace between Israel and Palestinians. C'mon, get real. Road map to peace is nowhere to be found.

The Committee couldn't find somebody else worthy to give the Peace Prize? Honestly I don't think Obama deserve the award. Hey, my blog! my own opinion!

News links: Reuters, Washington Post

So where do you belong?

The report by AP that ranks jobs by rate of depression is so damn reality.

Of course who wouldn't be depressed taking care of people you don't even know. Wiping their asses, bathing them just to earn a living.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- People who tend to the elderly, change diapers and serve up food and drinks have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers.
Overall, 7 percent of full-time workers battled depression in the past year, according to a government report available Saturday.

Women were more likely than men to have had a major bout of depression, and younger workers had higher rates of depression than their older colleagues. Almost 11 percent of personal care workers -- which includes child care and helping the elderly and severely disabled with their daily needs -- reported depression lasting two weeks or longer.

Hmm, women are more likely to be depressed? I dunno. I always felt that it's the men who are more liable to to be depressed. Or maybe I'm just associating depression with them. But then again there are more women workers that have jobs as caregivers and nurses. I think. But you know, if you're serving the country and being dispatched to war torn countries, you're bound to have depression one way or the other-- being way from family and all that and then coming back after witnessing horrors of life as the job requires it.

Contiuning with the report.....

Workers who prepare and serve food -- cooks, bartenders, waiters and waitresses -- had the second highest rate of depression among full-time employees at 10.3 percent. In a tie for third were health care workers and social workers at 9.6 percent.

The lowest rate of depression, 4.3 percent, occurred in the job category that covers engineers, architects and surveyors.

Right. And the aforementioned men are the ones who are more in to those line of job. And here I am making a point somehow about men being more depressed.

Actually having no job is depressing unless of course you're skanky socialite. Shit. That's doubly depressing.