Interesting..... Poverty in Our Cities.U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007
What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954;
Cincinnati , OH (3rd)...since 1984;
Cleveland , OH (4th)...since 1989;
Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;
St. Louis , MO (6th)....since 1949;
El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;
Milwaukee , WI (8th)...since 1908;
Philadelphia , PA (9th)...since 1952;
Newark , NJ (10th)...since 1907.
Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'
It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats---yet they are still ...................
POOR
The first thing I muttered was "correlation does not equal causation!" (Yes, I mutter with exclamation points.)
Then I got curious and ran some numbers myself. Looked at state poverty rates to remove the urban/rural political effect (news flash: cities tend to vote Democratic!), and then sorted those by political party of the current governor:
That doesn't tell you much -- we're averaging averages, which is never really a good idea statistically. So if you take the state-wide populations, and the state-wide poor populations, and aggregate them, it looks like this:
Statistically it's pretty crude, but at least it's not cherry-picking data. I wouldn't draw much of a conclusion from this, other than to mutter that "correlation does not equal causation" to myself. Again. With an exclamation point in there somewhere.
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For ValerieAll girls should have a poem
Written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.
-- Richard Brautigan
I picked up a copy of Brautigan's Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt at the Housing Works Café. Even though I already own a copy I bought it.
I have a lot of Brautigan books. He was one of my stepfather's favorite authors, and I inherited his collection. A lot of people start with Trout Fishing In America, but personally my favorite is In Watermelon Sugar. which I mentioned here, oh, seven years ago.
So there was Rommel, on the 50 cent rack. I always feel bad for good books that end up on the cheap shelf in used book stores. Sometimes I buy them just to find them a good home.
The last time this happened, it was A River Runs Through It, on the dollar shelf at Housing Works. I took it out and (for some reason unknown to me) began to riffle the pages. Somewhere in Montana, tucked between the pages, were five $20 bills.
I could have kept them. $1 for $100, what is that, 10,000% profit? But it was Housing Works. The bookstore's revenues help HIV+ people. Morally, the money really belonged to them, which I explained to the volunteer as I handed over the cash.
They didn't charge me for the book, though.
So if anyone wants a copy of A River Runs Through It or a book of Richard Brautigan poetry, just let me know. Mine were almost free.
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In searching for music keyboard product reviews I came across this site featuring wonderful translations of product information such as:
This terrifying initiator keyboard is the hone right smart to acquire started in playing. The CK 65 comes in the estimation of 61 standard-size swiftness tender keys, 100 contrasted voices positive 29 pleximetry sounds and its ain integral go scheme so there's no demand in the place of an amplifier!
How cool is my dad? He sent over this article from Knowledge@Wharton on Joss Whedon's Plan to Monetize Internet Content -- basically the Dr. Horrible Business Plan. (Man, I would love to write a case about Dr. Horrible.) Required reading for both Whedonites and Other People Who Think About Internet Content And Money.
Related: The Economics of Giving It Away, how Monty Python used YouTube to increase their sales by 23,000%, and Kevin Kelly's piece last year on The 1,000 True Fans business model (or, how to live like Jonathan Coulton). Read and discuss.
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I resisted the Twitter for a long time, but no longer!
I'm no stranger to the social networks. (Remember Orkut? Friendster?) I've been using Plaxo for years as a way to keep up with people's address changes. (It's still good for that, even as they try and make it more of a social network.) Then there's LinkedIn, which is hugely helpful for work (and looking for work) in all kinds of ways. It's by far the best business networking tool since the Rolodex.
Enter Facebook. (Yeepers, I need a new photograph.) At first I thought, what do I need to join Facebook for? I've got a blog. (Which, of course, everyone in the world is reading, right?) But I eventually caved and signed up, although I refuse to superpoke or give out eggs or any of that silliness (any more). I mean, everyone has a Facebook account now, right? (Welcome aboard, Chris!)
But Twitter? Really? I mean, I have a blog and Facebook now -- do I really need another means of broadcasting my minutiae to the world at large? Kerim was the one who convinced me, with this post: Twitter for Facebook Users. He quotes: "Twitter does one small thing, and does it well." As I'm a sucker for simplicity
To keep myself sane, I'm using HelloTxt so I can update all my networks via email. (I still don't do SMS.) I have one account that will update my status on business networks (Plaxo and LinkedIn) and another for personal networks (Twitter and Facebook), because presumably my professional network does not really want to know what I'm having for breakfast.
If you want you can follow Ishbadiddle via twitter, at least if the plugin works. It should tweet the latest posts. (And this is me).
So, do you Tweet?
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Tron vs. Depeche Mode:
80s sci-fi and 80s synth-pop -- how can you resist?
And just to show how far music has come, here's another edit with some French electro house. I don't even know what that means.
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Cruising the back links of Waxy I ran across the following sites of interest to some of our members. Perhaps they will interest you as well.
For Chris: Making songs out of financial charts; Billboard Top 100 in handy chart format (also Pitchfork ).
For Andrea: I made tea and blueful. Some new ways to tell stories.
If none of the above appeal to you, perhaps I could interest you in the World's Hardest Tetris Game?
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Harry Potter covers redesigned as Penguin Classics. Via Cynical C.
