Opening shots for '12...

This is the sort of the comparative combative narrative the White House should have been embracing since late '09. Take a look beneath the fold for the infographic.

Goverment is the problem....except when it comes to your uterus...

Pretty much that is the gist of a ballot initiative in Mississippi this year, as Irin Carmon.

That’s partly because the Personhood movement hopes to do nothing less than reclassify everyday, routine birth control as abortion. The medical definition of pregnancy is when a fertilized egg successfully implants in the uterine wall. If this initiative passes, and fertilized eggs on their own have full legal rights, anything that could potentially block that implantation – something a woman’s body does naturally all the time – could be considered murder. Scientists say hormonal birth-control pills and the morning-after pill work primarily by preventing fertilization in the first place, but the outside possibility, never documented, that an egg could be fertilized anyway and blocked is enough for some pro-lifers.

What I wonder is, if the ACA is so invasive then how is this not?

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Tea Party Vs. Occupy Wall Street

It can be summed up with the signs......

Tea Party

Fire up that TARDIS....

The estimable Ezra Klein does thorough cataloging of the what went down with the Obama administration during the Great Recession of 2008. It is a very interesting read and does a good job of getting a lot of the relevant information, that is easily forgotten today, out there.

Pretty much the gist of it is: We were more screwed then we thought, and our systems of governance are just not good at handling these sorts of problem.

But I will let the man speak from himself on the subject:

What this party needs is more graphs....

I know it cause major butt hurt any time "taxing incomes above 250k" is mentioned.

Yes I know that people who make 250k+ are not "rich", but lets not kid ourselves, they are not middle class either.



I have seen the middle and 250k is not it. This is not about class warfare, but an actual accounting of where individuals stand on the income scale.

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Take this job and shove it.....

A very depressing infographic about working in the United States. Andy this post is for you!

Time for a change....

It has been a while, but I decided the blog could use a face lift......

So we shall see how it goes, and other then the impenetrable prose, let me know if the contrast makes it harder to read.

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