HERMAN CAIN: Rocket Fuel for America.

A VISUAL METAPHOR for the World Financial Crises.

THE POTTIES ARE FULL! You're big boys and girls now; empty them yourselves.

FACT OVER FICTION: ObamaCare Starts to Unravel.

Maybe the FTC's 'truth in advertising' regulations should be applied to the government as well.

IT'S A SET-ASIDE FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: $9 billlion is looking for a job.

IN SEPTEMBER I linked to a post at the Political Calculations website showing the 2010 cumulative distribution of income for individuals in America. In that post, I suggested that it might serve as a proxy for household income as well. That suggestion was wrong, and Ironman from Political Calculations kindly provided a link to their 2010 cumulative distribution of household income in America.

Here are the income distributions from those calculators.



I would have been roughly correct if I had also suggested that most American households are dual-income households.

The interactive calculators can be found at the links above.

HEH. If they did, the Republicans would win 538 electoral votes to zip in 2012.

SEEN ON THE ROAD. An advertisement for the Bank of Clarke County in Virginia: "Not accepting government bailout money since 1881".

FIVE LESSONS for 'Occupy Wall Street' from 'I Love Lucy'.

• Have a sense of humor.
• Take a job, any job.
• Be loyal to something higher than yourself.
• Live within your means.
• Never stop trying.

"That's a life lesson for [those] who seems to have forgotten that persistence, more than talent and education, wins the day."