Heckuva Job Tour
Via Hetty Litjens: Cartoonist Walt Handelsman has the George W. Bush Hurricane Katrina One-Year Anniversary Heckuva Job Tour.
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September 5th, 2006
America in Decline
Via Atrios, The Washington Monthly says “Happy Labor Day” with a very educational map:
here’s a handy map showing how far median incomes have dropped over the past six years. And it’s good news for most of you: Compared to Michigan and North Carolina you’re not doing so badly after all. So stop your sniveling.
Update: Now The Washington Monthly reports a problem with the map.
they used a different measure for the 1999 figures than for the 2005 numbers, and that made the decline look worse than it was.
There is a chart (no map this time) at the Washington Monthly site with more consistent data.
Lie by Lie
Via Daily Kos: Mother Jones brings us Lie by Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold, a timeline from August 1990 to March 2003.
It’s a Flash application, which makes it amusing for about two seconds. Then I think it’s annoyingly difficult to use. But there’s a lot of good information buried in there.