Thursday, May 30, 2019

Some Charts

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~mathematician Blaise Pascal, 1670

Ned is getting an education in modern American pronouns in California.
Carol and I are off to Austin.

Mueller's strange statement seemed to contradict what he told Barr in front of witnesses. Jarrett said: "He refused to make a decision to charge the president in a court of law but was more than willing to indict him in the court of public opinion...His report was a non-indictment indictment. It was calumny masquerading as a report. "
There is another problem with this "not enough to indict" phrase. This phrase does not sound like exoneration --and it should. There was not enough to indict Desdemona either.

A man who was allegedly attacked by an emotional support dog on a Delta Airlines flight has filed a lawsuit against the airline and the owner of the animal.

This Assange question raises a significant Freedom of the Press question that, historically, has always been assumed--except for the occasional NYT arrogance.
Assange told former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning that WikiLeaks had originally described itself as an “intelligence agency” for the people. Assange’s decision to release 90,000 Afghanistan war-related activity reports also revealed the identities of at least 100 Afghans who were informing on the Taliban. Assange is not a journalist. He is a spy. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called WikiLeaks a “nonstate hostile intelligence service.” The fact that he gave stolen U.S. intelligence to Al Qaeda, the Taliban, China, Iran and other adversaries via a website rather than dead-drops is irrelevant. He engaged in espionage against the United States. And he has no remorse for the harm he has caused. He once called the innocent people hurt by his disclosures “collateral damage” and admitted WikiLeaks might get “blood on our hands.”
But Chelsea seems so sweet.

At Rouen on this day in 1431,  in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, was burned at the stake for heresy.

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US farm employment tripled from about 4 million in 1840 to the peak of nearly 12 million jobs in 1910. Since the peak, there’s been a loss of about 10 million farm jobs in the US to 2 million jobs while farm employment as a share of the labor force has declined from 63% in 1840 to below 2% this century. That’s a lot of creative job destruction in the labor market for farm employment, but those lost jobs have been more than replaced by new jobs in new industries. In 1910, there were about 3 non-farm jobs for every farm job, and now there’s 80 non-farm jobs for every worker employed in agriculture.




Unmarried birth rates by race:


A hard-to-read income chart based on race. Not pretty, unless you're Asian. But it does muddy the white/male mythology.







Tesla ($TSLA) is no longer the largest US automaker by market cap.
(wsj.com) How could this be?

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