April 2011
25 posts
Wade Boggstache: Old Hoss Radbourn vs. Brown Bear →
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Both are American beasts. But who would outlast/dismantle the other if they crossed paths in the bitterly cold forests of the 49th state?
Background
- Old Hoss Radbourn (born Charles) is a Hall-of-Fame baseball player who won 59 games in 1884 with a 1.38 ERA and 441 Ks. He started 73…
Wade Boggstache: Big Puma vs. Actual Puma →
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Who would win if these two American cats met in a fight-to-the-death, well, death match? Before you rush to a conclusion, let’s take a look at the match-up.
Background
- Lance Berkman is a professional baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals, known for his 12-year career with the…
“The US budget is like a 1st grader playing Oregon Trail. Spend all the money on ammunition so you can shoot at stuff, then wonder why your wagon is falling apart and everyone is dying of dysentery.”
—reddit (via chriscarlberg)
Why Obama must call out the GOP
Obama must show America that the basic choice is between two fundamental views of this nation. Either we’re all in this together, or we’re a bunch of individuals who happen to live within these borders and are mainly on their own.
The President needs to remind us that as members of the same society we have obligations to one another — that the wealthiest among us must pay their fair share of taxes, that any of us who loses our jobs or homes or gets terribly sick can count on the rest of us, and that we have collective obligations to our elderly, our children, and the rest of the planet.
of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income…
In terms of income equality, America lags behind any country in the old, ossified Europe that President George W. Bush used to deride. Among our closest counterparts are Russia with its oligarchs and Iran. While many of the old centers of inequality in Latin America, such as Brazil, have been striving in recent years, rather successfully, to improve the plight of the poor and reduce gaps in income, America has allowed inequality to grow.
