There’s an interesting flowtown chart which can be seen HERE on the subject.

From looking at the chart I would ascertain that your typical blogger is someone who is male, around 40, with a grad degree, who lives in California, and who’s been blogging about 3 years.

Wow, do I fit the bill…

I think I’m the first person in history to invent a math based off of The Beatles.  I did it so people who don’t listen to The Beatles can easily learn everything they need to know about the band. Below are the basics of this new branch of mathematics:

{Paul, John, George, Ringo} subset {The Beatles} subset {£}

Paul or John or George or Ringo = ?

Paul + John + George + Ringo = $$$$$ and :-/

Paul + John + George + Ringo + drugs = $$$$$ and !!!!!!!!

Paul + drugs = John + drugs > George + drugs > Ringo + drugs

Yoko = -infinity

John + Yoko + drugs = ???!!! + :-{

Paul + drugs = $$$$

John + drugs = $$

George + drugs = $$

Ringo + drugs = $

…as it’s yet another shining example of liberal bias by one of the big three media outlets.

Talking about areas of the nation that are recovering best from the economic slump, an article from ABCnews.com (which can be read HERE) mentions Texas as a good example.  It explains why:

“The places that are likely to recover the fastest seem to be places that have suffered the least during the recession,” says Howard Wial, who heads up research on metro and regional economies at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. Texas, he notes, has a fiscally stable government buttressed by oil and gas revenues and spending from Uncle Sam.

Now everyone can agree that Texas has a fiscally stable government, and it does have oil and gas revenues (as others states have various revenues from their resources).  But to claim that Texas has weathered this slump because of spending by Uncle Sam?  What?

What the article conveniently doesn’t state is that the Brookings Institute is a leading liberal think-tank.  Of all the places to get input on why Texas is doing so well, ABC went to the Brookings Institute who told them it’s because of government spending by Uncle Sam!

If you look HERE at cnnmoney.com, you’ll see in their list of ‘where the jobs are at,’ 5 out of the top 7 counties are in Texas.  Guess how many California or New York counties make the top 25?  Zero.  Does anyone really think states that have the biggest government spending in them are faring the best during this recession?  Really?  Well there are Virginia counties in the top 25, so I guess the counties next to D.C. do well (surprise, surprise).

Now, the big 3 aren’t as biased as NBC’s little sister MSNBC.  A few weeks ago I heard Rachel Maddow say that Fox continually runs bogus stories in order to make ‘white Americans afraid of black Americans.’  But to some extent, that doesn’t bother me as much as what ABC, CBS, and NBC do, and have done for decades.  The anchors and reporters at MSNBC are out-of-the-closet Leftists.  Instead of having an intellectual discussion about policy, they just bash people with opposing views as bigots. But at least they’re open about who they are.

The big 3 try to hide their bias and that’s what’s so immoral about it.

I wish one of them would move out of DC and NYC and into the Heartland.  They’d certainly gain a different perspective on the world…

Here’s an article in the Wichita Eagle about the very last roll of Kodachrome being processed: LINK.  This is significant in so many ways and a terrific symbol of what’s been going on in our modern economy.  Back in the day I was a heavy user of Kodachrome, but like most people I haven’t used it in many years.

Here’s what’s happened: Film has gone by the wayside in favor of digital technologies.

Here’s what happened as viewed from the Left:

Thousands of people have lost their jobs!  Film processing plants have shut down, causing hardworking Americans to be put out on the street!  How could we have let this happen?  The government needs to step in and help these people as their suffering is a direct result of corporations putting profits before people!

Here’s the view from the Right:

The free market found a more efficient and high quality way of allowing people to capture photographs.  This increase in utility will save people time, money, and will result in better photographs.  There will be losses of labor from the closure of outdated processes and gains in labor from the new technologies and increase in consumer spending (because people  won’t have to spend as much on photography).  The lost jobs will free up labor for more efficient processes elsewhere.  The free market, as always, has found a better way of doing something, and although there are individual winners and losers, there is a net overall gain to humanity.

That’s the difference between Blue America and Red America.  For the first view, you just have to be able to observe and feel.  For the second view you at least need an intuitive feel for economics.

Bye Kodachrome! I’ll miss you (but not that much)…

This is from Marginal Revolution, a very cool economic blog that I read frequently.   The x-axis is the year, the y-axis is the rottentomatoes.com score for M. Night’s movies.