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I'm not going to post on the SOTU speech except to say that it's too little too late. Where were these left-leaning measures in, say, 2009?
Bush's 2003 cut in dividend taxes did nothing to improve the economy. Yeah, but it helped the 1%.
The US and UK will be holding joint cyber warfare games to protect Wall St. and other large financial firms. Great.
It is the government's job to respond to cyber attacks. Yeah, which is why Cameron was on TV calling for mandatory back doors in all software and for outlawing all forms of encryption. You know, to keep us safe.
More abuse of power by Comcast et.al. as municipal broadband is blocked in Missouri through heavily lobbied legislative work.
The 1% tend to underestimate the effects of good fortune.
Are the returns on a college education going to decline in the future?
How middle-class black kids become poor black adults.
The explanations for this phenomenon are varied, but largely hinge on many of the criticisms that already exist in regard to socioeconomics and race in the U.S. Economists cite lower educational attainment, higher rates of single-parent households, and geographic segregation as potential explanations for these trends. The latter determines not only what neighborhoods people live in, but often what types of schools children attend, which could play a role in hindering their educational and professional attainment later on. According to Reeves, "In terms of opportunity, there are still two Americas, divided by race."Feel really sad for rich kids. They're orphans with parents.
Why yes, our state and local taxes are regressive, why do you ask?
Once again, poor people were not to blame for the housing crisis. The givernment didn't force banks to lend money to the poors so they could buy mansions.
When we break out the volume of mortgage origination from 2002 to 2006 by income deciles across the US population, we see that the distribution of mortgage debt is concentrated in middle and high income borrowers, not the poor. Middle and high income borrowers also contributed most significantly to the increase in defaults after 2007. These results are consistent with an interpretation where house price expectations led lenders and buyers to buy into an unfolding bubble based on inflated asset values, rather than a change in the lending technology.The effects of school spending on educational and economic outcomes.
Exogenous spending increases were associated with sizable improvements in measured school quality, including reductions in student-to-teacher ratios, increases in teacher salaries, and longer school years.What can SimCity's problem with homelessness teach us about real world perceptions of homelessness?
Mitt Romney believes in Global Warming again.
He also tackled climate change, describing himself as "one of those Republicans" who believe the world is getting warmer and people contribute to the temperature changes and calling for "real leadership" to deal with coal emissions.
Let's revisit Paul Ryan's 2009 OpEd about the looming danger of inflation. Yeah, about that...
Since 2016 is in sight, let's start smearing the reputation of potential GOP candidates. Here's Dr. Ben Carson, John Hopkins neurosurgeon:
More news on the Grifters-gotta-grift front: Heaven is not for real. Child who allegedly died and went to heaven recants his testimony. Apparently his dad just wanted to make a bunch of money selling books.
If you challenge authority, you are now considered mentally ill. Strangely, I feel like we live in an age where authority, expertise, and hard data are utterly meaningless to most of the population.
QVC is for stupid people.
Here's a bunch of pictures of babies about 20 seconds after they were cut out of the womb. This is what my wife is going to spend her life doing.
A good take down of the privilege inherent in how we think about kids and the internet.
Andrew’s depiction of his peers’ use of social media is a depiction of a segment of the population, notably the segment most like those in the tech industry. In other words, what the tech elite are seeing and sharing is what people like them would’ve been doing with social media X years ago. It resonates. But it is not a full portrait of today’s youth. And its uptake and interpretation by journalists and the tech elite whitewashes teens practices in deeply problematic ways.Bitcoin, GoldBugs, and Money. Yeah, my 0.0076 bitcoins aren't really worth that much anymore.
O’Brien is correct. The reason for bitcoin’s wild price volatility is that many people -- not just O’Brien’s “libertarians,” but many others -- fail to understand the difference between money and risky long-term assets.So just how great was that whole Caliphate thingy anyway?
Finally someone acknowledged that Ralph Waldo Emerson is full of shit. As are all transcendentalists.
The effects of stories on the brain. For some reason, we have a picture of Hemingway in a completely absurd writing locale.
The dog that played Toto in The Wizard of OZ was paid more than the actors who played the Munchkins.
Top Gear with Legos:
Every single user interface in Star Wars IV.
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