Akkam’s Razor

Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers 84,000 prices in about 200 categories — like gasoline, bananas, dresses and garbage collection — to form the Consumer Price Index, one measure of inflation.

Sorry, we don’t need a president who is tough enough to withstand the lies of his opponents. We need a president who is tough enough to tell the truth to the American people.

The $20 hourly wage, introduced on a huge scale in the middle of the last century, allowed masses of Americans with no more than a high school education to rise to the middle class. It was a marker, of sorts. And it is on its way to extinction.

The idea that we have a rising oligarchy is much more disturbing. It suggests that the growth of inequality may have as much to do with power relations as it does with market forces. Unfortunately, that’s the real story.

The 2008 Presidential candidates, as relayed in the Advanced Dungeon & Dragons manual.

If you call everyone Nazis, the word kind of loses its punch and significance.

Here it is…the races where Rove feels the GOP needs to focus on defending seats they already hold and seats held by Democrats that they seek to win, via the illegal political PowerPoint presentation shown to the GSA.

“It’s probably the last thing most people think about when buying roses. But by the time the velvety, vibrant-colored flowers reach a Valentine’s Day buyer, they will have been sprayed, rinsed and dipped in a battery of potentially lethal chemicals.”

“Even though the cost of providing medical care to veterans has been growing rapidly — by more than 10 percent in many years — White House budget documents assume consecutive cutbacks in 2009 and 2010 and a freeze thereafter.”