Archive for March, 2010

Unemployment and education

March 24, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

A chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Message: Stay in school! (If you can afford it.)

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How the Borg helped pass health care reform

March 24, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

I have to say I have tested people with this riddle myself, only with two less degrees of separation: What is the chain of events that connect the Borg — the evil cyber-bio villains of “Star Trek” fame — and health care reform. The blog a grammar asks and answers this in a post called [...]

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The dirt on JPMorgan Chase

March 24, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

We first found this on The Awl. It’s a photo of what’s described on the blog I ought to be working as a pile of manure left in the entrance of a Chase Manhattan bank ATM at 10th street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan, with this explanation: This happened across the street from my apartment. [...]

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Extra! Extra!

March 23, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

What did newspaper front pages look like the day after health care reform passed? Someone collected screen shots of over 200 of them and put them on the Web. Click to see a pretty amazing collection.

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A picture is worth…

March 23, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

…at least one New York Times headline. The blog Line By Line is a “daily graphic capture of New York Times headlines.” Here are three of the entries with their accompanying source material. For Consumers, Clarity on Health Care Changes Stores Land in Gun-Control Crossfire Huge Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power More [...]

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Noodling about doodling

March 23, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

Our friend the Evil HR Lady answers a question from a worker who was written up for doodling during a meeting. Question from user: I am in a bind. I don’t really know what to do. Previously, the HR lady in my fairly small office was nice to me, always smiling at me and saying [...]

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Health care: A temperate critique

March 23, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

There are death panels, communist takeovers, and the end of liberty as we know it, and then there are more rational criticisms of the health care bill. Greg Mankiw, former chairman of George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors, offers this post: Healthcare, Trade Offs, and the Road Ahead One thing I have been struck [...]

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That didn’t take long…

March 23, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

See, the health care bill is already paying dividends…for the person who thought this up. Wonder if they had one ready in the event the bill didn’t pass.

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Health care Waterloo – but for Republicans?

March 23, 2010Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

“Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s. It’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster.” Former Bush speechwriter and Republican thinker David Frum has posted an article on his site that is making the Web rounds. It argues that Republicans have made a huge tactical error in refusing [...]

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Economics reduced

March 23, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off

…to one photo. From the blog of economist Greg Mankiw: Economics in One Picture.

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