"In the Land of Dairy Queen..."

The gang at the insection of Unqualified Street & Unrequited Avenue is truly living in fantasy land today.

In the wake of a crappy jobs report of 96,000 and a revision downward in the report of a month before (so that is several consecutive months of a growth rate below the amount necessary to keep even) the geniuses over there are on it in their inimitable style.

JOBS REPORT: NOT BAD, NOT GREAT [NRO Financial Editors]
The payroll jobs report for September has arrived: 96,000 new jobs, which is below the consensus forecast. The unemployment rate, however, remains at a historically low 5.4 percent. Manufacturing jobs -- about 15 percent of the economy -- posted a loss of 18,000. Early on this is being called a weakness in the economy. Also, the August jobs number was revised lower to 108,000.

And when the latest job reports suck, when there is nothing good to say, let's just go back to the most base and mindless stereotyping we can think of shall we?

OUR OLDEST ENEMY [John J. Miller]
Each day this week, the wonderful Kathryn Lopez has posted a short excerpt from my new book, Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France (co-authored by Mark Molesky). And all it cost me was a stack of oil-for-food vouchers. The final installment went up this morning. In order, the excerpts look at episodes from the French and Indian Wars, the American Revolution, the Second World War, the American bombing of Libya in 1986, and Jacques Chirac's friendship with Saddam Hussein. Many thanks to the NRO readers who took an interest. I've also set up a website devoted to the book, featuring daily updates on the continuing story of French perfidy: oldestenemy.com.

Cripes.