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."

OCCUPY WALL STREET: try occupying reality for real change.

LONG DISTANCE CAR RADAR:

Today's systems can dramatically reduce your risk of rear-ending someone else's car, and when most cars have such radars, they will also be much less likely to rear-end you. Once every vehicle on the road is able to sense and avoid others, there'll be no reason why they won't be able to negotiate tailing distances among themselves. Eventually, they might even be sending radio messages about their intentions to one another and to monitors on the roadway over ad hoc communication networks. Smart roads may thus emerge organically.

I like cruise control, too, but I don't give it full responsibility for driving the car.

AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, LIBYA -- and now we're at war in Uganda. But that's all right: we're leaving Iraq in the lurch in January.

There are wars, then there are important wars.

THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT "appears as though it will be with us for the foreseeable future. And perhaps the only thing worse than the selfish, narcissistic, vacuous behavior and rhetoric of the occupiers is the fact that our President and members of his party in Congress have given their blessing to it all."

EVEN OBAMA is giving up on ObamaCare.

SO YOU THINK you know how to fish....

WHY DON'T THEY WANT TO ARREST US? It's tempting, but if we were to arrest all the twits, there'd be no room in jail for serious criminals.

NO BIAS HERE: the tea party is just a party; Occupy Wall Street is a Movement.

ON A NOT-TOO-LONG AGO DAY TRIP, we passed the Found & Sons funeral home. I pointed it out and suggested that if the other owners were named Lost, then it could have been the Lost & Found funeral home. To which my wife immediately quipped, "I'm waiting for the one named Eventually Yours.

INSTAPUNDIT on Occupy Wall Street and Godwin's Law. Follow the links.

"CATS! Delightful and efficient machines for turning dollars into catsh*t...." I think I wrote something similar recently.

"HON? TELL 'EM THAT MATH THING AGAIN."