18 days ago
philgyford : Income Gap and Marginal Tax Rate 1917-2006 at Visualizing Economics - Ouch. Difference in income for rich and poor in the US over the past century, compared to the tax rate.
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1 month ago
Eric Meyer : Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - Yet another one of those charts that each side will see as a strong argument for its candidate's policy positions and a powerful condemnation of the other side's candidate. [via Tim] [via]
deusx : Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - washingtonpost.com - "Obama's plan gives the biggest cuts to those who make the least, while McCain would give the largest cuts to the very wealthy. For the approximately 147,000 families that make up the top 0.1 percent of the income scale, the difference between t
gleuschk : Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - washingtonpost.com - nice to have some data
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1 month ago
philgyford : Times Higher Education - All the privileged must have prizes - About teaching at Harvard and the sense of entitlement the kids there have. (via Kottke)
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1 month ago
nelson : Paris Candid Camera - American TV show sends obnoxious Texans to Paris cafes, films results
Andy Baio : Candid Camera-style show sends "Ugly Americans" to Parisian cafes, records results - the locals were extremely tolerant and were only chastised by other Americans [via]
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2 month ago
gleuschk : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - he's talking to people like me (I hope -- he certainly isn't talking in a way that the plumber in his kitchen can understand him)
philgyford : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - Great measured rant about what Ivy League educated kids are missing out on. (via Kottke)
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3 month ago
43folders : Everything seemingly is spinning out of control - via twitter/mulegirl
deusx : Everything seemingly is spinning out of control - "And maybe this is what the 21st century will be about — a great unraveling of some things long taken for granted."
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5 month ago
deusx : There's No Such Thing as the Homeland | Threat Level from Wired.com - "There is no such thing as a Homeland. The United States is not Franco's Spain, the National Socialist Party's Germany, or Mussolini's Italy. We do not face imminent destruction of our country or way of life."
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6 month ago
plasticbag : The Onion has the US election result! - Wonderful piece of satire that's in fact so wonderful it's barely funny at all. I should introduce this to the Open Rights Group people.
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plasticbag : The Huffington Post has a browseable data set for campaign donations... - Particularly sexy as it allows you to search for different companies and see which way the people who work there tend to work. You can also search for individuals. This is the database journalism that Adrian talks about in action.
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8 month ago
plasticbag : New York Times cartoon critique of the major US campaign logos - The 'Kerry Edwards' logo of a few years ago comes in for particular ridicule.
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8 month ago
gleuschk : What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC. - the United States is arguably more isolated and less educated about the world than it was a half-century ago. In a time of such broad technological change, how can this possibly be the case?
Ethan Marcotte : "You Don’t Understand Our Audience": What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC - "To me, the term 'shareholder value' sounded like Mao's 'right path,' although this was not something I shared at the employee reëducation meetings." ∞
philgyford : "You Don't Understand Our Audience" by John Hockenberry - "...a series of lessons I learned about how television news had lost its most basic journalistic instincts in its search for the audience-driven sweet spot, the 'emotional center' of the American people." (via Oblinks)
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10 month ago
philgyford : Soundtrack To War - Good 90 minute documentary on what music US troops in Iraq, and Iraqis, listen to and make. Mostly: white troops listen to metal, black troops to rap.
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11 month ago
deusx : Kung Fu Monkey: Farm Fetish - "I am just, I guess, well and truly tired of being told what "Middle America" wants, when Middle America is my age and lives in a goddam city, just like I have for my entire life."
Greg Storey : "...only 17% of Americans live in rural settings anymore. Only 2 million of those people work on farms or ranches..." - So who's buying all those damn pick-up trucks?
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11 month ago
deusx : A troubling turn in American history - The Boston Globe - "These developments would be disturbing enough, but what they point to is an interruption in this nation's most important public tradition - the movement from recognition of a problem to its attempted resolution."
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11 month ago
deusx : A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation - New York Times - "The founders were not anti-religion. ... But they wanted faith to be one thread in the country’s tapestry, not the whole tapestry."
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11 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : 9/11 Is Over - “Our government has been exporting fear, not hope: ‘Give me your tired, your poor and your fingerprints.’” ∞
deusx : 9/11 is Over - "We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy."
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deusx : Bed-wetter Nation | Campaign for America's Future - "But look now what we have lost. Now when a bad guy crosses our threshhold, America becomes a pants-piddling mess."
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14 month ago
deusx : Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much - New York Times - "At a time when science permeates debates on everything from global warming to stem cell research, he said, people's inability to understand basic scientific concepts undermines their ability to take part in the democratic process."
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17 month ago
deusx : When did America become a nation of frightened wimps? | steve-olson.com - "When did America become a nation of frightened wimps? When did we cross the line from courage to cowardice?"
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19 month ago
plasticbag : There's an article on the BBC about Al Gore post-Oscar and whether the US is ready to warm to him... - Interesting question. From a geek perspective, most of the Gore coverage has been pretty glowing since the Wired article a couple of years ago. There's this energy consumption debacle going on, but that seems more like an attack than an insight...
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19 month ago
deusx : AlterNet: The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair - "It is a movement built on the growing personal and economic despair of tens of millions of Americans, who watched helplessly as their communities were plunged into poverty by the flight of manufacturing jobs, their families and neighborhoods torn apart b
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20 month ago
jkottke : Running the Numbers, a great new series of photography from Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers, a great new series of photography from Chris Jordan, is kind of a combination of Chuck Close and Edward Burtynsky, with a bit of Stamen thrown in for good measure. (via conscientious) [via]
philgyford : Running the Numbers - An American Self-Portrait - Images showing the number of things used by Americans every day/week/month/etc. Amazing, scary, etc. (via Haddock)
Khoi Vinh : Running the Numbers, an American Self-Portrait - Photographic representations of massive statistical facts.
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Hillary Clinton announces her candidacy for the Presidency of the United States on her site - It's all a little bit Oprah, but it's certainly interesting.
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21 month ago
deusx : Violent Acres ? Archives ? Two Phrases That Destroyed American Culture - "‘The Customer is Always Right’ ... until we banish that phrase from American culture forever, I suggest we quit looking the other way when people behave like scumbags."
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