The Wild Wild Left - Recent Comments

Racial politics are in everything..its just more obvious in this disgusting bullshit of a 'war'.

Dusty — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:24:51 GMT

A war that has been on-going for 40 plus years and pushed by every President since Nixon.

Americans are mostly leftists who don't know it yet.

GorgeousDwight — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:11:22 GMT

Do Americans know their country's wealth distribution?

A remarkable study (Norton & Ariely, 2010) reveals that Americans have no idea that the wealth distribution (defined for them in terms of "net worth") is as concentrated as it is. When shown three pie charts representing possible wealth distributions, 90% or more of the 5,522 respondents -- whatever their gender, age, income level, or party affiliation -- thought that the American wealth distribution most resembled one in which the top 20% has about 60% of the wealth. In fact, of course, the top 20% control about 85% of the wealth (refer back to Table 1 and Figure 1 in this document for a more detailed breakdown of the numbers).

Even more striking, they did not come close on the amount of wealth held by the bottom 40% of the population. It's a number I haven't even mentioned so far, and it's shocking: the lowest two quintiles hold just 0.3% of the wealth in the United States. Most people in the survey guessed the figure to be between 8% and 10%, and two dozen academic economists got it wrong too, by guessing about 2% -- seven times too high. Those surveyed did have it about right for what the 20% in the middle have; it's at the top and the bottom that they don't have any idea of what's going on.

Americans from all walks of life were also united in their vision of what the "ideal" wealth distribution would be, which may come as an even bigger surprise than their shared misinformation on the actual wealth distribution. They said that the ideal wealth distribution would be one in which the top 20% owned between 30 and 40 percent of the privately held wealth, which is a far cry from the 85 percent that the top 20% actually own. They also said that the bottom 40% -- that's 120 million Americans -- should have between 25% and 30%, not the mere 8% to 10% they thought this group had, and far above the 0.3% they actually had. In fact, there's no country in the world that has a wealth distribution close to what Americans think is ideal when it comes to fairness. So maybe Americans are much more egalitarian than most of them realize about each other, at least in principle and before the rat race begins.

Funny story

Diane Gee — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:02:25 GMT

So, I'm up at 4 and one of my friends is on, and we are IM'ing. I decided to ask him to help me pull a spoof on my g/f there.

He phone had been randomly changing into other languages all week.... freaking her out. She thought she had been hacked.

So, we all used google translator and posted long threads to her and with one another on her page in Spanish.

We were like, "Whoa dude, now your FB is doing it."

She thought it hilarious.

try the coffee at 50, bebbe.

Compound F — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:37:07 GMT

The behaviorists think Man and Rat are about the same

GorgeousDwight — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:39:36 GMT

and assume that because they can construct a maze for us, they are the rational ones. Man is more than the sum of his parts. Women are even more than that.

Thanks, CF.

Today is another anniversary

Diane Gee — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:19:34 GMT

Since I was born about 8pm last night.

Today was my first day as a radical. I assume it was in the formula.

after coffee! n/t

Diane Gee — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:45:26 GMT

Lots of kids songs

Diane Gee — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:44:24 GMT

are totally creepy when you think about it.

CATS? OFF the LIST w/ you :)

Diane Gee — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:16:43 GMT

Cats throw up all the time. And shit in a box in your house. With cats you are always face deep in smells.

Take it back. You have to take it back and say one "Hail Puppy" to get back on the list.

roflmao

Moose und Squirrel...? Sounds like institutional complicity. I think you're exploiting cartoons

GorgeousDwight — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:45:22 GMT

in a reformist and revisionist manner, yet. I think that's bad. Maybe not.

'Fuck that towel' ROFL

Al Osorio — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:17:20 GMT

solution is cats, you know!

(hope that don't bump me off the list)

We'll hold ya to that, Diane.

GorgeousDwight — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:03:25 GMT