Surviving California's Unemployment Line

California’s Employment Development Department is, we hear, maddening. For one thing, there’s no in-person office you can go to. Everything’s done over the phone or online. (Sounds like it’d be more efficient, in theory, but trust the gubmint to mess it up.) So you fill in your forms, repeatedly dial 1-800 numbers that nobody answers, and wait and wait for an unemployment check that never comes.

But now Tania Khadder, blogging at Unemploymentality, has compiled