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Taken from the U.S. Census. Stolen from Washington Monthly
[Update: I had a graphic here but it was too big for my template and unreadable if I reduced it so I'll refer you to the source Washington Monthly.
The take-home message -- median incomes are down 2.8% in the U.S. during the Bush years, down a whopping 7.1% in Kentucky.]
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…Jury’s gaze was now fixed on the cat Cyril, who had been resting in the shallow curve of molding that hid the indirect lighting, little lights that traveled all around the ceiling. Cyril was sitting up, taking his victim’s measure: that would be CS Racer, of course, who was pacing back and forth. Cyril had lately enjoyed leaping not on him, but flying straight over Racer’s head and down. Cyril was revving up, but the door to the office needed to be open in order to escape. “Is that all? Sir?”
“What? Yes, yes.” Racer waved him out.
Jury opened the door and Cyril, in an amazing display of aeronautics, flew directly in front of Racer, landed and made for the door and lickety-split right under Fiona’s desk…
— Martha Grimes, from The Old Wine Shades (Viking, 2006)
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Good on Barney Frank; he has impressed me lately, although my only previous knowledge of him was through...
