This week the Eyedropper is doing things a little differently. I tried to get an image of this car’s “Jesus Is Lord Over Santa Fe” bumper sticker but, due to complications—driving—my plan was foiled. So using Blingee, I’ve crafted the spoiled image to be more…um…readable. The slogan is one I’ve seen before in different cities, but one by which I’m still bewildered. My dismay: Why just Santa Fe? and Why not Vishnu?

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Personalized Glitter Graphics

In a patronizing measure geared at those of us who just love lists, The Daily Beast compiled one for the best and worst states in terms of  job prospects. The news website used states’ 2006-2016 labor department employment projections, updated that using national employment projections through 2018, “which better reflected post-meltdown realities,” then factored in unemployment changes from 2006-2009. It threw all that down a rabbit hole and determined that New Mexico is the 11th best states for future employment. If your lack of health insurance hasn’t hastened the deterioration of your health to the point where you’re immobile, perhaps you could get that job as a senior safety consultant for PNM.

While Doug Nava awaited election results among family, the other two District 1 City Council candidates, Russell Simon (Marble Tap Room) and incumbent Chris Calvert, election-partied the old-fashioned way.

We followed Calvert to Cowgirl for ribs and booze and, yes, the District 1 results.

He won!

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This sign that gently urges motorists to “Give bikes 5 feet” has suffered the same fate as many a bike rider whose increasing presence on the roads is a silent demand for that same thing. Unfortunately bikers, like this sign, continue to be pushed off the roads, left cold in the snow banks to futilely yell, “Give bikes 5 feet” to no one. Wear a helmet.

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Though the holiday for which this almost-punctuationless sign was made has past, the point is as image finder Editorial Assistant Charlotte Jusinski says: “The joys of punctuation are relevant even after the holidays.” The helpful/alarming message from Smith’s:

Dont forget your sweetheart makes a great gift.

For today’s exercise, we will experiment with punctuation—any at all—to make this sentence better (Eyedropper’s “better”). Let’s try on for size the following:

Dont forget, your sweetheart makes a great gift.

You have a darling sweetheart. Don’t let your friends lack the same: Give them your sweetheart! Consent optional!

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