November 2011 Archives

Thomas Sowell: The real Herman Cain scandal - NYPOST.com

"The real scandal is that the law allows people to impose heavy costs on others at little or no cost to themselves. That is a perfect setting for legalized extortion.

"The fact that neither judges nor juries always stick to the letter of the law means that people who have zero basis for a lawsuit, under the law as written, can still create enough uncertainty to extract money from people who cannot afford the risk of going to trial."

Doug Gilford's Mad Cover Site - The Don Martin Dictionary - Listing By Date

Sometimes you need to know the right way to spell the sound of a hippie lighting a match on his crusty jeans ("THIKOOSH") or squeezing food out of his beard ("SHKLURCH"), a man hitting a pole ("DOONT"), dripping soup from spoon into soup bowl ("DRIPPLE BLIT"), or two frogs catching each other with their tongues ("ZAP GING GING TWONG SPLAT").

The American Consumer Project: Find Your County - Advertising Age

Interactive maps show each county in the US color-coded for two different "consumer targeting frameworks" -- Patchwork Nation and Esri's Tapestry. Point at a county, see how it's categorized, its median income, and the change in income over the last decade. Tulsa County is classified as "Boom Towns" (Patchwork), "Traditional Living" (Tapestry), with a 2010 median income of $50,267, increasing 0.4% over the decade.