Most upper-income Americans believe their living standards are improving, according to Gallup
The Cost Of Perpetual War
BP Catching Goldman Sachs As Least Popular Brand
The score comes from responses to the question “If you’ve heard anything about the brand in the last two weeks, was it positive or negative?”
![With New Jersey this week poised to become the 14th state to legalize medical marijuana, 81 percent in this national ABC News/Washington Post poll [pdf] support the idea.
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With New Jersey this week poised to become the 14th state to legalize medical marijuana, 81 percent in this national ABC News/Washington Post poll [pdf] support the idea.
The Republican National Committee says we are close to Socialism. So we must be getting pretty close.
How close?
This is what socialism looks like:
The Obameter: Tracking Obama’s Campaign Promises
Here’s a graph showing people’s incomes (the blue bar), the amount they could pay in medical bills without reform (the green bar), and the amount they could pay with reform (the orange bar).
chart via Jon Cohn TNR
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Problem Comparison: Tiger Woods vs. Jay-Z
…this wonderful chart on the relative “consumption” characteristics of TV vs the web.
Boing Boing via Velocity of Media Consumption: TV vs. the Web (via ResourceShelf)
Animated map of US unemployment stats since 2007
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The Colbert Report
Obama vs. Fox is No. 5 Story Last Week
The economic crisis topped the news agenda, registering at 15% of the newshole. But the Obama administration’s feud with Fox News was the fifth-biggest story of the week. While the story made up 5% of the newshole, it got the most attention on cable news and radio (12% of airtime in both).
continue reading…TVNewser
What’s On TV?
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