How the Average U.S. Consumer Spends Money
Really interesting breakdown via Visual Economics.
President Obama the Nerd
Awesome speech by John Hodgman at the Radio and TV Personalities Dinner.
20 Years Ago Today
The news has been full of stories about the Great Firewall of China cracking down and closing off access that encourage mass communication. Facebook and Twitter are among those being shut down. The reason? Twenty years ago today the Tiananmen Square Protests ended after seven weeks of demonstrations. Take a moment to educate yourself a little more about the event by reading the Wikipedia entry.
Jesse Venture on Larry King Live
Jesse Ventura has apparently moved to Mexico to enjoy the weather and surf now that he is no longer Governor. Really interesting interview.
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Top Tax Rates
Admittedly this affects 0% of my readers, but I saw the in The Economist and found it interesting.
Only in Japan
Check out this Barack Obama action figure that has gone on sale in Japan. Anyone have any more information on this? Very funny.
Why haven’t I seen this before?
I just saw this picture for the first time, I suspect it is really old. I find it very funny.
Coming Soon: The Barack Obama Soundboard
In Obama’s book Dreams From My Father he writes about his friend Ray who likes to use dirty language. This in itself really isn’t that big of a deal. However, there is an audio version of the book read by Barack Obama himself. Thus we get the clips below. Funny stuff. Hopefully this doesn’t destroy my bandwidth. It is probably only a matter of time before we have an Obama soundboard or some sort of Christian Bale mashup.
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This shit’s getting way too complicated for me
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Ignorant Motherfuckers
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That guy ain’t shit. Sorry ass motherfucker
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Sure, you can have my number baby!
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You ain’t my bitch, nigga.
Update: I didn’t make these, I got them in an e-mail. I am sure I am not even close to the first person to post them.
Obama’s Stimulus Plan
$825 Billion is a ton of money. I found this graphic which shows a the breakdown of where that money is going. I had to edit it to make it fit on the blog, but since I found it on tinyurl I have no idea who the original author was.
Update: Moved the graphic to the second page, it was way too big for the front page.
Legalization: Yes We Can
It would be nice if we could, at the very least, have a renewed educated discourse on this topic. Somehow I don’t see that happening.