Oct. 12, 2007

Oct. 12, 2007—The American’s share of national income has hit a postwar record. The IRS said the wealthiest 1% earned 21.2% of all income In 2005; the bottom 50% earned 12.8%. -- WSJ A1

—Fischer and Hout argue that the amount of schooling a person receives now overshadows nativity, race, or income as the nation’s prime divide.—Andrew Hacker, NYRB 10-11-2007, p. 32

-- History does not end. Amidst the emergence of democratic functioning across the planet we should not forget that the oldest democracies---the United States, Great Britain, France---continue to evolve. Everything seems to indicate that the latter are transforming into oligarchical systems. . .what if democracy is merely the political superstructure of a particular cultural stage---simply mass literacy? . . Secondary education and especially higher education reintroduce the notion of inequality into the mental and ideological organization of developed societies. After a brief period of hesitation and scruples, the more highly educated wind up believing that they are truly superior. In developed countries a new class is emerging that comprises roughly 20 per cent of the population in terms of sheer numbers but controls about half of each nation’s wealth. This new class has more and more trouble putting up with the constraint of universal suffrage. [16] Emmanuel Todd, last year’s Nietzsche card

Oct. 12, 2007—Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has hired a high-powered Washington lawyer to represent him in investigations of mismanagement of the Justice Department. –NYT, A18—guilty, guilty, GUILTY!!

--Owing to higher tax rates, individual Norwegians retain considerably less of what they earn. In return, they pay much less or nothing at all for health care, higher education, and other amenities that Americans have to buy. They also use their affluence to purchase more leisure, by choosing to wok fewer hours. Less tangibly, their taxes help to build a society that imprisons only a tenth as many of its citizens as we do. –Hacker, NRYB, 10-11-2007, p. 31—goddam gay faggot blonde people!!

Oct. 12, 2007—Al Gore awarded Nobel Peace Prize. —goddam gay faggot blonde people!!