| - The Cucking Stool righteously rips that ridiculous 'lets-eliminate-corporate-taxes' opinion piece in Sunday's Strib. (You can link from there to the Strib piece itself, if you must.)
- Across The Great Divide relays, and discusses, a suggestion as to how the U.S. Senate could be reconfigured. Interesting speculation, though speculation is all it is.
My preferred suggestion, perhaps slightly, and I do mean 'slightly,' more realistic, is one senator per state, the rest apportioned by population.
- An entertaining, yet at times nauseating (because of the subject matter) essay about anti-feminism, from Daily Kos.
- I originally linked this, from NationMaster, to show how prominently countries in the Mideast rank in per capita military spending. Then I noticed the United States isn't listed.
From Wikipedia, total U.S. military spending for 2010 is in the range of 880 billion to 1.03 trillion. As of about noon Sunday, the U.S. Census Bureau had the U.S. population at 308,637,538. 880 billion divided by 308.64 million equals U.S. per capita military spending of at least, based on the above, $2851.22/person. So, yeah, the U.S. is in a category all its own. |
