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88% of income growth since 2009 went to corporate profits, 1% went to employee wages.To anyone who thinks that further tax breaks/benefits to large corporations would create jobs, let's put it this way: for every extra million dollars that corporate America gets, they pocket $880,000 and put $10,000 into salaries. $10,000. That's not even enough to ( Read more... )

The new GOP/Fox News (but I repeat myself) catchphrase is "skin in the game". This was a phrase that was popularized in the investing world by Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha ( Read more... )

Late in June of 1776, a subject of the British crown wrote the following words as part of a draft of a document:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...
Please do note that these unalienable rights which all men [all of mankind] are endowed ( Read more... )

Folks, this is a little painful for me to write about ( Read more... )

Note: This post is cross-posted to my Wizards of the Coast Community Blog. Quotes from some items in the Dungeons & Dragons Compendium have been reproduced for commentary purposes, a fair use justification.

I was looking something up in the online Compendium for D&D and noticed something interesting, something I never noticed before. Here's the ( Read more... )

Imagine you're the proud of parent of a baby boy. He's been washed and weighed and tagged and checked for emissions standards compliance and everything else that they do with new babies and everything's going great, but then your doctor comes into the room with a heavy note of concern in his eyes ( Read more... )

1. Here is a two-year-old article about a study that found how people feel about their weight is a better predictor of health and mortality than how much they weigh.
   
2. Here is an abstract of a study demonstrating that overweight and obese patients have a lower rate of cardiac death than "normal" weight patients.
   
3. Here is an abstract of a study ( Read more... )

I found myself, in a roundabout way, reading a months-old blog post that had been linked to in a Livejournal post that karnythia linked to ( Read more... )

I got everything on my list yesterday done except for Tribe, because I saved that for last and underestimated how much relaxation and enjoyment I'd get in a single day. So it became my first priority this morning, and will be so again tomorrow. Most of Tribe to date was written as the last thing I did before going to bed at night, but that only ( Read more... )