I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been unsettled by the typical electoral map, with its vast swaths of red and small blue fringes.
So this map makes me happy.
Via Kottke
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Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job
WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, “It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can’t catch a break.”
My beard is itchy.
It’s time to start listening to Nouriel Roubini, economist at NYU.
For months, Roubini’s concerns about impending economic catastrophe went unheeded, and he was caricatured as ‘Dr. Doom.’ Now he’s known as Dr. I Told You So.
This is what he thinks we should do now.