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nevver:

Word on The Street

jayrosen:

Could we please see this sentence in the New York Times more often?

It’s the one that goes, “This is false.”

Somebody on Twitter sent the link to me. They knew I would appreciate it.

Here it is in context, in an article on Ray’s Pizza (the real one) closing down in Soho. Some guy who opened another, fake Ray’s says (well, actually he said it in 1991…) that no one ever heard of the founder of the original Ray’s, Ralph Cuomo.

That’s when it happened. The New York Times reporter, Michael Wilson, actually typed into the Times system, “This is false.” And the editors? Why, they let it stand! Fit to print! Then the Internets lit up…

Don’t you wish you saw those three little words a little more often?  Some suit on the TV goes, “Every time we’ve cut taxes, revenues have gone up!” and the next day the New York Times calmly reports it, followed by the three little words… This is false.

Don’t be cynical. Don’t say never. It just happened with a random quote by a pizza guy from twenty years ago. 

It’d also be dandy to see that when, say, Michele Bachmann says that the Founding Fathers worked to eradicate slavery, or Sarah Palin says that Paul Revere rode to warn the British. It’s real easy! “This is false.”

nevver:

The Darkness, Dan McCarthy

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Salvador Dali and Harpo Marx

Gets me high this one

kateoplis:

Robert Reich: The Limping Middle Class

The economy won’t really bounce back until America’s surge toward inequality is reversed. Even if by some miracle President Obama gets support for a second big stimulus while Ben S. Bernanke’s Fed keeps interest rates near zero, neither will do the trick without a middle class capable of spending. Pump-priming works only when a well contains enough water.

Look back over the last hundred years and you’ll see the pattern. During periods when the very rich took home a much smaller proportion of total income — as in the Great Prosperity between 1947 and 1977 — the nation as a whole grew faster and median wages surged. We created a virtuous cycle in which an ever growing middle class had the ability to consume more goods and services, which created more and better jobs, thereby stoking demand. The rising tide did in fact lift all boats.

During periods when the very rich took home a larger proportion — as between 1918 and 1933, and in the Great Regression from 1981 to the present day — growth slowed, median wages stagnated and we suffered giant downturns. It’s no mere coincidence that over the last century the top earners’ share of the nation’s total income peaked in 1928 and 2007 — the two years just preceding the biggest downturns.

Read on.

Periods of income equality produce the greatest economic recessions:

(via moneyisnotimportant)

nevver:

Signing off

Perfect. I use “cheers” and “thanks”.

jondaly:

Only the sickest editors like @getzsch give you DVDs in old school Floppy Disk cases. It feels like Im about to jack it to Leisure Suit Larry!

I literally brought these to summer camp so I could get my Karateka on