October 2011
6 posts
This note is [no longer] legal tender for all... →
Reminds me that Greece recently banned cash transactions over €1500 and Italy recently banned cash transactions over €5000.
And if the thought “Wouldn’t it have been easier to take financial jobs and divide by the total population?” crosses your mind, you obviously haven’t had enough to drink.
If you are curious, though, it’s still 2%-ish (7.6m / 311m).
Also, I’m part of that 2% I just calculated. Not part of the top 1%, though.
Who Are The 1%? →
They’re mostly pissed at 13.9% of the top 1%. Realistically, I think it’s 5.7% (financial jobs) of the 90.9% (percent employed) of the 64.2% (labor force participation rate) of the 66% (working age Americans). And note that I’m not going to try to factor out the portion of the top 1% and worry about claims of double-counting. (NB: the 5.7%, 90.9%, and 64.2% number just comes from...
As Many as 24 People Arrested for Trying to Close... →
I found this interesting. This was followed up later with this link. (I half-heartedly suggest following the last link. The bongos and chanting really make the video for me—Santa Cruz and protesters and drums? Isn’t that like salt and pepper and cumin? I’m surprised the 99% don’t find the drums annoying.)
Oral Sex May Cause More Throat Cancer Than Smoking... →
Most read headline in Bloomberg on a day with 400 point Dow swings.
Oral sex causes smoking in men?
Anti-HPV Vaccine: Who knew it could be this easy to be homophobic and a slut-shamer?
This gives me new ways to propose a “…because cancer sucks” ad campaign for Gardasil.
Actually, that last bullet makes me want to point out the following from the article:
Pamela Eisele, a...