RockStarKevin

A recession is defined as two quarters of negative economic growth. We haven’t even had one quarter of negative growth.

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 under facts and charts. Comments: None

Exaggeration with Maps
All maps distort whatever data they try to present. The examples below show, in increasing levels of magnitude, how badly this exaggeration can accumulate with scale….
Perhaps most exaggerated of all though has to be the images that are typically given to show the accumulation of “space junk” — remnants of space flights and [...]

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 under facts and charts. Comments: None

A blogger caught Justice Kennedy having made a really big error in modern Supreme Court history.  In the death penalty child rape case, when he said that the death penalty for this crime was “against evolving standards” he overlooked, what a blogger found, that  in 2006 Congress itself had made rape of a child a [...]

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 under facts and charts. Comments: None

Big bite out of the Tiger -or- Can government ever be greedy?

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 under Taxes, facts and charts. Comments: None