Well, it can't all be about me, me, me.
Jan. 11th, 2014 12:53 pmHow about some articles?
How useless is a Chocolate Teapot?
http://bit.ly/1hI5bPX
Op-ed: Disney takes a chainsaw to the Star Wars expanded universe
http://bit.ly/1cMkqTd
Romanian Official: British Bankers Worse Than Roma Beggars
http://bitly.com/1eu8cjB
Survey finds dads defy stereotypes about black fatherhood
By most measures, report says, black fathers are at least as involved with their kids as other men in similar living situations.
http://lat.ms/1l6rJH9
Number of Americans looking for work at lowest level since 1970s
Unemployment rate falls to 6.7% but only 74,000 jobs added
Big rise in number of people dropping out of jobs market
Participation rate at lowest level for 40 years
From the comments: All official US unemployment data are completely fraudulent. John Williams of Shadowstats who applies an earlier US methodology for calculating unemployment estimates US unemployment to be 23%. That seems to correlate much better with 91.8 million working-age adults not in the labor force.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
http://bit.ly/1m06Cqn
Florida moves ahead with bill legalizing "warning shots"
Because what they really need down in Florida are more people shooting their guns.
http://fxn.ws/KACd69
Gov. Paul LePage released information on Tuesday that he says demonstrates that welfare benefits in Maine are being abused. But the data LePage cited to make his case for abuse represent a tiny fraction of all transactions involving electronic benefits cards issued to the state’s welfare recipients.
The second paragraph has an interesting example of plural data in the wild. I thought that subspecies was extinct! The comments tear into the data even more than the article does.
http://bit.ly/19eqN3t
How useless is a Chocolate Teapot?
http://bit.ly/1hI5bPX
Op-ed: Disney takes a chainsaw to the Star Wars expanded universe
http://bit.ly/1cMkqTd
Romanian Official: British Bankers Worse Than Roma Beggars
http://bitly.com/1eu8cjB
Survey finds dads defy stereotypes about black fatherhood
By most measures, report says, black fathers are at least as involved with their kids as other men in similar living situations.
http://lat.ms/1l6rJH9
Number of Americans looking for work at lowest level since 1970s
Unemployment rate falls to 6.7% but only 74,000 jobs added
Big rise in number of people dropping out of jobs market
Participation rate at lowest level for 40 years
From the comments: All official US unemployment data are completely fraudulent. John Williams of Shadowstats who applies an earlier US methodology for calculating unemployment estimates US unemployment to be 23%. That seems to correlate much better with 91.8 million working-age adults not in the labor force.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
http://bit.ly/1m06Cqn
Florida moves ahead with bill legalizing "warning shots"
Because what they really need down in Florida are more people shooting their guns.
http://fxn.ws/KACd69
Gov. Paul LePage released information on Tuesday that he says demonstrates that welfare benefits in Maine are being abused. But the data LePage cited to make his case for abuse represent a tiny fraction of all transactions involving electronic benefits cards issued to the state’s welfare recipients.
The second paragraph has an interesting example of plural data in the wild. I thought that subspecies was extinct! The comments tear into the data even more than the article does.
http://bit.ly/19eqN3t