Tidbits - February 10, 2013
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The Persistence of Racial Resentment
New York Times
Is the country more or less racist? How can the percentage of people holding anti-black attitudes have increased from 2006 to 2008 at a time when Obama performed better among white voters than the two previous white Democratic nominees, and then again from 2008 to 2012 when Obama won a second term? In fact, the shifts described by Tesler and Pasek are an integral aspect of the intensifying conservatism within the right wing of the Republican Party.
Antibiotics And Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria In Meat: Not Getting Better
Wired Science
It’s worth noting that this continued antibiotic use, and continued and rising appearance of resistant bacteria on meat, is happening as the FDA has abandoned attempting to regulate livestock producers’ use of antibiotics, and has switched to a voluntary approach. Given the trend, I think it’s worth asking how well that voluntary approach is going to work.
The Great Tax-Cut Experiment Has cutting tax rates for the rich helped the economy?
Dollars and Sense
Dramatic cuts in tax rates have not led to an acceleration in economic growth, investment, or productivity.
Super Bowl Is As American As .... ?
By number of viewers, the Super Bowl is a cross section of America. From the faces in the ads, not always. The first video below challenges us to rethink who we are as a nation. It ran as a Super Bowl ad -- in a few select markets. The second video never ran as a Super Bowl ad, but it does fix some things that a Super Bowl ad that ran nationwide (third video) got wrong. See if you can spot the difference. And then help to spread this discussion by emailing, tweeting and sharing these videos, using the links below. -- video moderator
"Aspiring Americans" is an ad that played during the 2013 Super Bowl on broadcast and cable television in a few select markets.
We saw Dodge's "God Made A Farmer" ad and we thought it didn't reflect the whole picture. So we gave it a bit of a fix.
'Farmer' Super Bowl ad sponsored by Dodge.
Anchored Down
ucomics.com
Geithner Doctrine Lives on in Libor Scandal
Financial Times via Naked Capitalism
On Ditching the Geithner doctrine
On Our Own or All Together?
Jacobin
The burgeoning popular literature about how to navigate the “new old age”
The ‘Crony Capitalist Blowout’
Moyers and Company
The extraordinary rise in wealth and power of the very rich during this era of unregulated greed
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