Tiny salaries in the low ranks of publishing are miserable for the young workers, but they're probably worse for literature (You can insert "movies" for "literature," if that's the prism through which you want to read this).
Last year's most miserable city, Stockton, ranks No. 11 this year.
California's troubles helped it land eight of the 20 spots on our annual list of America's Most Miserable Cities, with Stockton ranking first for the second time in three years.
The U.S. ranks a miserable 28th.
America ranks a miserable 13th in the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, in the proportion of the population graduating in science, maths and engineering.
This year, the world's largest democracy ranked a miserable 140th out of 179 countries in the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index — falling nine places from last year.
VOLKSWAGEN (VW) cars ranked a miserable 34th out of 37 brands in a recent quality poll by J.D. Power, a market-research firm.
But it is also a protest against the rigidity of Japanese society, a choice to remain innocent instead of joining the ranks of miserable adults.
Miliband is unlikely to win the next election, but the start he has made is by no means as miserable as the massed ranks of Tory commentators suggest.
The Turkish government insists it tolerates "100%" freedom of speech, although the country ranks a miserable 138th on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom, below Egypt, Iraq and Ukraine.
It needs to cut red tape and regulations that scare away investment: India ranks a miserable 134 among 185 nations in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business survey.
