NBC TV station in Columbus, Ohio, on Cleveland at No. 2 on list.

CNBC at least provided some good links back to original story.

Gawker story gets plenty of comments.

The Detroit News has a blurb about it.

Mlive.com, which owns newspapers in Michigan, is pleased that Detroit isn’t as bad as Cleveland.

New York Daily News is happy New York City isn’t on the list.

LA Weekly takes the low road and says AOL is a website for geezers, all while misspelling website.

New Jersey Newsroom cites story as “intelligent commentary.” Thank you.

The website ivpressonline in El Centro — which tops the list — speaks up.

The blog Miami New Times admits how bad it is there.

Indy Posted, a news website for busy people, linked to story but left a word out in its introductory paragraph.

Opposing Views likes all caps.

Author bios and new mugshots were also added, giving me the look of a modern artist. It’s also easier to find all of my stories on the site, which is the best news of all.

It turns out I’m not the only person who thought Stein went too far with his commentary dissing the unemployed as lazy.  Media Matters for America was critical of Stein. ThinkProgress.org points out that unemployment didn’t double during the recession because of lazy workers, but because of a bad economy.

The American Prospect takes it a step further, pointing out Stein’s ethical lapse by shilling for a credit company that tricked people into thinking they were getting a free credit report. Labor demand, not supply, is causing high unemployment, the website says.

Read Stein’s commentary in the American Spectator and at AOL News, and then read my story at WalletPop, and tell me what you think.

It was a lot of fun and my first appearance on TV.  I also got to meet Sheila E as she left the green room to go to the set.

We shook hands and I told her how big of a fan I was for all of these years (mostly during the 1980s, although I didn’t tell her that), and how much I enjoyed her music.  Unfortunately, our handshake wasn’t taped for the audience to see, but here’s a video of her interview for the show:

Listen to the interview on generics to buy by clicking on this link:

file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Aaron/My%20Documents/Downloads/071910%20aaron%20crowe.mp3

I was also interviewed on WBAL in Baltimore. Listen here:

http://tiny.cc/y74cn

I’m available for more radio and TV interviews. I still can’t get my TV interview on kids’ finances online yet; it’s not working on the ABC San Francisco website.

While we definitely move in different circles, but I thought of some similarities between us after the interview:

• We’re both about the same age.
• We were both laid off at about the same time. Carolla about a year ago from a high paying radio job that he’s turned into the top iTunes podcast, and me from a newspaper job two years ago that I’ve morphed into a freelance writer and editor.
• Stay-at-home dads. He does it with the help of a nanny, but still takes care of his young son and daughter. I’ve enjoyed the past two years watching my daughter, now 5, grow up.
• Working from home. He’s surrounded by expensive cars and owns two homes. I have a 1991 Acura and work in a home office.
• My house needs renovation.

I’m a big fan of Carolla’s, following his work much more in the past few years. One of my first part-time jobs after getting laid off involved driving around to pick up police logs, and I’d listen to his morning radio show while driving. It was a Sacramento station, so the reception wasn’t great, but I’d always hurry back to the car to hear more between stops. I then started listening to his podcast, but stopped after awhile because he seemed to continue ranting about the same topics again and again. He’s still entertaining, and a comic I’ll continue to follow.

It’s great that his career path has done so well, from construction worker to podcast king. He found a niche and is taking it as far as he can. Good advice for anyone changing careers.

I’m starting to write a lot of book reviews lately, and Ian Graham’s new book “Unbillable Hours” is the latest book review I’ve completed. My story about it ran today on the AOL Find a Job website.

It’s a great book and a page-turner. Instead of focusing on the murder acquittal that Graham helped on, I focused on Graham’s search for meaning in his job as a young attorney. He didn’t have any passion for corporate law, and was chasing money. He found his passion in the pro bono case, and now teaches juvenile law in Los Angeles.

I know that the day I was laid off is one I’ll never forget. The Lemonade documentary, however, focuses on much more than that and is an enlightening story.

I’ll post the WalletPop link here when my story runs, hopefully within a few days or early next week.

Today’s story was on being overqualified for a job and how to deal with it.

I continue writing about career topics for WalletPop, such as a story this week on how more aging workers may be having a “Helen Thomas moment” as the baby boomers age and work past normal retirement age.

My blogging topics, if you’ve lost count, are: personal finance, career, technology, and real estate. I’m also trying to add solar power to the mix.