Jerome Sneed Democrat
@avrilbradley23
Spenglerian-Jacksonian-Gaitskellite. Baja Blast drinker.
Hard to believe Bill Clinton would be mixed up with any inappropriate conduct. wsj.com/us-news/jeffre…
It's good to know that supporting the worst totalitarian regimes in the world does not disqualify one from a Cambridge honorary degree!
🎓 Professor Angela Davis, eminent American political activist, philosopher and author, who received an honorary Doctorate in Letters
Right, countries are just lining up for immigrants whose philosophy is "we will do nothing for the country we reside in and expect it to provide us everything."
Ultra-Orthodox willing to ‘leave the country’ over conscription issue, says Goldknopf timesofisrael.com/ultra-orthodox…
Tilly on Inequality Tilly addresses a key question –Why do social inequalities arise and persist?– & puts the focus on four causal mechanisms: exploitation, opportunity hoarding, emulation & adaptation. It's a thought-provoking book. Read Chapter 1 here: people.duke.edu/~jmoody77/FacF…
Map of non-hispanic white median household income by state (not adjusted for age or cost of living); link below:
Arrest Obama for his presidential library design
Upwardly mobile people in East Asia, Latin America, and even large parts of continental Europe tend to flock to a few urban centers and stay there. Only in Anglo countries and perhaps a few Euro centuries is the aspiration a suburban home.
Anglos have a very unusual and seemingly deep rooted anxiety regarding "density." It seems this was unleased by auto transit, since we obviously used to build cities. But in any case, the apartment and townhouse have a negativity to us that most cultures would find baffling.
Interestingly, Gast, who painted and reproduced this lithograph, was the son of German immigrants who settled in Missouri in the 1850s. They were unionists. Unlike American-born Republicans with nasty nativity streaks, Gast was thoroughly disgusted by Chinese Exclusion. -OS
A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending. American Progress - John Gast
One of the more interesting phenomena in American culture is the "taming" of once-rowdy or lewd forms of entertainment into something wholesome or at least safe. Happened with vaudeville, jazz, &c. Wonder if anyone's written on it from a neutral perspective.
Hogan is widely credited with transforming the wrestling scene into a family entertainment spectacle. ab.co/3GZ0SUa
Dry title, but compelling story of how the monetisation of the Middle-East was driven by war. Alexander's successors feverishly minted coins as the only reliable method of raising troops: polities were too unstable to offer land-grants, & natives weren't trusted for conscription.
But after almost a decade of failed solutions, the worsening problem of vagrant Greek exiles & mercenaries had become acute. There were now so many of them, the risk of potentially sparking all of Greece into revolt was preferable than allowing the status-quo to fester.
A few autobiographically inflected remarks on @MoustacheClubUS's postmortem on the post-left. The two questions to ask about the post-left are: 1) did it even exist? 2) did it matter? I remain unsure about 1, but Oliver makes a strong case in the affirmative on 2./1
One in 6 Maine homes are vacation homes—which Census defines as "vacant for seasonal, recreational, or occasional use." The lowest density of vacation homes in America is Illinois—one in 125. via @_brianpotter
Hoisington, Kansas Post Office Wheat Center - Dorothea Tomlinson (1938) Photo by Tom Parker
NEW Crystal Ball -- If a redistricting war breaks out, Republicans have more and easier paths to gerrymanders than Democrats. A 50-state assessment: centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/as…
Anglos have a very unusual and seemingly deep rooted anxiety regarding "density." It seems this was unleased by auto transit, since we obviously used to build cities. But in any case, the apartment and townhouse have a negativity to us that most cultures would find baffling.
Why does seemingly every country in the English-speaking world have an insane housing market? Is it something inherent to English common law that makes us not build enough housing or something?