Interesting graphs and charts department

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Griff

Boston Globe's debt chart.

The right hand column there is particularly interesting. Most of the debt is owed within the US, so if you try to "quantitatively ease" your way out of it (i.e. print money and devalue currency) you're mostly screwing yourselves.

I'm not so sure about the left column. I have doubts about pinning the debt to each president. Firstly, as various voices shout loudly from time to time, the prez is not totally in control of spending. As well as congress, there are the commitments from previous eras. For example, Obama couldn't just drop the Iraq thing on Jan 20th, 2009, he had to keep it going. I'd rather see what all the money has been spent on (social security, health care, defense etc) over the decades.

And putting tax cuts in as an expense raises all sorts of philosophical problems. I mean, suppose there had never been those tax cuts, but there was still a smaller debt. Could we say that the debt was because no-one has thought to increase taxes by a trillion dollars?

[Griff]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

The right hand column there is particularly interesting. Most of the debt is owed within the US, so if you try to "quantitatively ease" your way out of it (i.e. print money and devalue currency) you're mostly screwing yourselves.

The Chinese portion while an enormous amount of money doesn't seem as scarey as advertised when looked at in the totality of the debt.

[Gravdigr]

The popularity of Zombie movies, vs. the popularity of Vampire movies, in relation to which party is in the White House.

From "6 Mind-Blowing Ways Zombies and Vampires Explain America" at cracked.com

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

The popularity of Zombie movies, vs. the popularity of Vampire movies, in relation to which party is in the White House.

From "6 Mind-Blowing Ways Zombies and Vampires Explain America" at cracked.com

That rocks....

[Gravdigr]

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[xoxoxoBruce]

yourmechanic dot com a repair service, like the uber of car repair. So these results aren't accurate for anything but their customers, but might be a big enough sampling to be close.
link

[xoxoxoBruce]

Liberal Professors...

[Beest]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Liberal Professors...

So what is the take away message here, Professor is a long term position, so were all those New England Professors outwardly conservative, but repressed liberals and are now out of the closet?
Has the Liberal Cabal been aggressively evicting the hard working conservative professor

[xoxoxoBruce]

There has always been a preponderance of liberal professors in New England. Professors choose assistants to work with who often go on the becomes professors themselves. Of course some professors move up to management and set the tone some conservative professors find intolerable so choose to move to conservative schools. Schools around the country are always trying to lure professors with Ivy League schools or Tech schools like MIT or Stanford on their resume.

[Gravdigr]

[glatt]

If you are like most American adults, you are probably having less sex than you used to.

This study breaks it down. In a nutshell, American adults had sex 60 times a year in 1989 and 53 times a year in 2014.

Check out your own demographic and gloat, or be bummed. My wish for you is that you can gloat. To yourself, of course.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Sex? Oh yeah, I remember that, fun as I recall.