Krugman crusades about growing income disparity, and in general I have some level of agreement with him.  But instead of being content to use actual data, he inflates the numbers (maybe we can call it a “fact disparity”).
Taxation has become much less progressive: according to estimates by the economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, average […]

Highlights from the The 2005 Racial and Gender Report Card: Major League Baseball:

In 1991 68% of MLB players were white.  By 2005 that number had dropped to 60%.  Black players were 18% in ‘91 and 9% in ‘05.  Latino players were 14% in ‘91 and 29% in ‘05.  So the real story isn’t white flight […]

Here’s a part of the Imus controversy that I haven’t yet heard reported.  After his repugnant comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, here’s what he said about the Tennessee women’s team:
And the girls from Tennessee, they all look cute, you know, so, like…
The Tennessee women’s basketball roster has 8 black players and 3 white […]

After this week’s transactions, we have one additional piece of real estate and one fewer internal organ.
Monday night Gretchen started feeling ill.  Really ill.  Took her to the ER around midnight, and by 8am Tuesday her appendix was in a jar.  She’s recovering well (and big thanks to Mike, Sara, Allison, Jimmy, Katie, Kyle, Vince, […]