Health Care: Profit and Bankruptcy

From this months Harper's Index:

Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid
to large U.S. health-insurance companies:
+87%

Chances that an American bankrupted by medical bills has health-insurance:
7 in 10

Two Reasons Why Norm Macdonald is a Genius

Money Laundering

Norm Macdonald's brother has something to say about the economy.

Success Fail

I can't seems to get this image to appear clearly unless you click on it. I hope the clear image speaks for itself.

Principles In Action

Black Middle Class

"All of the information that we have shows that middle class blacks live in neighborhoods that on many measures are more disadvantaged the poor whites. So, more disadvantaged than poor whites, not just more disadvantaged than middle class whites... When I say that I mean still living in neighborhoods with higher poverty, with more crime, with less political clout, less well funded schools, less public investment and it's that comparison that is really stark."

(via sociological images)

English Soil

Happy Summer, Everyone!

If you looked up "The Unbeatable Kid" in the dictionary inside my mind, this is what you'd see.

Neutral Race Redux

Here's Steven Colbert going over some ground that I've covered before. I thought it was worth bringing up.

Future Ed

Who would have thought that the most unrealistic aspect of the distopian future presented in Robocop was that Detroit will be an industrial hub capable of developing cutting edge prototypes like the ED-209.