This is an update to my post previously about income in the United States. Based on 111,617,402 households in the US as of 2006. Household Income, 2006 Total People Percent Less than $49,999 57,218,480 51% $50,000 to $74,999 21,221,889 19% $75,000 to $99,999 13,214,551 12% $100,000 to $199,999 16,145,482 14% $200,000 or more 3,817,000 3%…
Rachel Luxemburg was kind enough to forward me this report from Jakob Nielsen on how people read on the web. I have always known that people do not read a web page the way they do a book or email. On the web, people will skim. They will pass whole blocks of text. Their eyes…
I remember the 2000 primaries. Al Gore was battling Bill Bradley. I don’t remember all of the details, but specifically, I remember feeling guilty after the election. I thought, Bill Bradley would have been a better candidate. Right now, I am having deja vu. Is Barack Obama the new Bill Bradley? Will I feel remorse…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average took a plunge this morning. It got me thinking. I wonder what the Dow looks like for the last 16 years. 8 years of Bill Clinton and 8 years (almost) of Bush. I used data/sceenshot from Investor.com Notice how the Bush years aren’t quite as good as the Clinton years. …
Hillary Clinton is a genius. I never thought of this, but she just pulled out the unbeatable strategy. Crying. Think about it. When a man cries, he is not strong and usually ridiculed. When a woman cries, men immediately give up and woman bond together. I think it’s from some evolutionary gene or something. Crying…
Ok, so now we have a second data point after Iowa. New Hampshire, which was a dead-even race for Clinton and Obama now has Obama ahead by 13 percentage points. It is riddiculous to say that New Hampshire was taking into account the “retail campaigning” that happens in Iowa because New Hampshire gets it just…
Primaries suck. I want to vote for Joe Biden. A bunch of local yokels in Iowa voted for Barack Obama and now he is “unstoppable”. Are you kidding me? Who cares what Iowa thinks? I don’t! I want to vote for Biden and he has no right to withdrawn his name so quickly. Primaries suck. …
California is a pain in the ass. They have these propositions and initiatives and special elections ALL THE TIME. Every single time we have to vote, they ask us questions that we can not answer. It is terribly designed user experience. Never ask a question that has significant implications that the user has no way…
If Al Gore wins the Nobel prize, he should run for president. I am convinced that he would win. The country feels guilty about the 2000 election. We know Gore won, but we let it slide and let Bush take the prize. In hindsight, that was a really shitty decision. The Supreme Court is now…
I filled out this MSNBC Candidates/Issues Matrix. Looking carefully at the positions of all the candidates, I rated them all. As I expected, Hillary Clinton is not as progressive as I would like her to be. Mike Gravel has some good positions, but he seems “a few kb short of a meg” to me. The…
I was listening to NPR this morning to an interview with Robert Reich. Apparently, Rob Reich uses blogspot for his blog. He was very interesting on the interview. He was talking about how the world has changed in the last 30 years. I didn’t get to the end of the interview, so I think I…
I woke up early this morning. I didn’t want to wake up early. I have no idea why it happened, but once I am up, there is no going back. So I did some chores. I cleaned the fish tank. I added one additive that I am hoping doesn’t kill all the fish. It was…
The New York Times reported that the senior official in charge of their Food and Drug oversight was sentenced to death for corruption. In America, Scooter Libby was sentenced to 3 years in prison for leaking the name of Valerie Plame to the press, a treasonable offense. He was then let off the prison hook…
Nice article on MSNBC about Joe Biden. Joe is the man! Too bad he hasn’t had any Joe-menutum. I fully support his viewpoint on Iraq. Here is a quote from the sentate floor. “History suggests only there’s only a couple … ways to keep together a country driven by sectarian strife. And it’s not to…