Stable Genius Liberal

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Most of Western Europe today is both more equal in incomes and more economically mobile than the United States. And it isn’t just Western Europe. Countries as varied as Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and Pakistan all have higher degrees of income mobility than we do. A nation that prides itself on its lack of class… Continue reading Untitled

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owsposters: Nick Hanauer on Corporate Profits Download the poster pack Source of quote Author’s note: Historically, no movement for change that originated from below succeeded without at least some allies at the top. Ever, ever, ever. This is true across the board of history. Think about it. Recount in your mind historical events such as… Continue reading Untitled

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on average, conservative states feature more “dependency” on federal programs than do liberal ones. You can slice this kind of data in a variety of ways, but you always end up with the same aggregate pattern. (via How Blue America Subsidizes Red America)

Obama Wants Much Higher Taxes on the Rich; Romney Wants Slightly Higher Taxes on the Poor

Chart pretty much says it all.

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( A Lack of a Culture War Truce In One Graph | Rortybomb) You remember that whole thing about the Tea Party being all about fiscal conservatism? Yeah, turns out that was BS.

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When you hear some talk sympathetically about the rights of sovereign citizens; ask them if they are OK with undocumented sovereign citizens coming over the border from Mexico.

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(via Saying Hi WIN – Win!)

Howard Stern and Michele Bachmann

The war of words between Howard Stern and Michele Bachmann reminds me recent Fox attack on the Muppet movie. In a nutshell, if you are arguing with the Muppets, you are losing your argument. There is no way to win an argument with a Muppet because if you make a well thought out reasoned argument,… Continue reading Howard Stern and Michele Bachmann

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Racial Education Gap Narrowing, Income Education Gap Growing

pure income inequality has become much bigger and on a variety of different fronts income-linked stratification has become a bigger deal. One way in which this reflects itself is that the “achievement gap” in school between white kids and black kids used to be bigger than the gap between rich and poor.

I remember someone on Bill Maher’s old show making a joke about this. Conservatives looked at the problem of poor black kids having fewer opportunities to get an education than poor white kids and decided to solve the problem by making sure that poor white kids don’t have any opportunities for a good education either.