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  • Auto Haters: Fat, Mean & Undermining Green

    Economist David Gordon wrote in his book Fat and Mean, “In the 1980s, by common measures, the proportion of managerial and administrative employment was more than three times as high in the United States as in Germany and Japan.” He also wrote that the US has a higher percentage of supervisors than Germany, Sweden, and Japan ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by Bibble on December 11, 2008

  • Why is the left vested in racism?

    Instead of seeking truth, the question an indoctrinated leftist asks, ''Am I offended?'' Economic variability across ''race'' is the major offence. Being offended makes the leftist a ''victim.'' Once the leftist has declared himself, herself or someone else a victim, then through Marxist reasoning, a victim can disregard rational thought and ...
    Posted to Politics by Ralph7 on July 27, 2008

  • A Parabola mapping our American Trajectory

    The St. Louis Arch represents all the Progress we made as a modern society in the 20th Century, we Americans, in technology, modernism, business, the arts, journalism, mass media, medicine, education, trade, politics, electrification and electrical generation, automobiles, airplanes, foreign policy, foreign trade, food, democracy, industrial and ...
    Posted to Architecture by MichaelBernard1 on June 14, 2008

  • Re: re Henneberger's latest

    Is ''hurtful'' the worst charge you can make? If we're talking about matters that are this complex, crossing lines of personal identity, economics, and social stratification bringing together different people experiencing different strands of history -- it's going to hurt to tell and hear the truth. 1) My parents are white collar workers who came ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Paula26 on April 16, 2008