Furthermore. . .

Urban ethnic cleansing
Half of New Orleans' black community has moved since Katrina. Of the remaining, "Nearly half of them are unemployed. And African-American households are earning 50 percent less than their white counterparts."

Stats 

Number of unemployed his summer: 11.5 million. Number unemployed during Great Depression: 13-18 million

Nine million Americans take sleeping pills
 
Entropy update

Speakers at the March on Washington 50 years ago included Martin Luther King, Josaphine Baker and Walter Reuther. Speakers at this week's March on Washington included Barack Obama and Bill Clinton

The media carefully avoided sprecific crowd estimates for the march. The Washington Post, for example, listed 250,000 as having been at the original march but a vague "tens of thousands" this time.

Quotes

You hear about 'constitutional rights,' 'free speech,' and the 'free press.' Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red....' You never hear a real American talk like that. - Frank Hague, Mayor of Jersey City 1917-47

Pocket paradigms

War is doing things overseas that we would go to prison for at home. -Sam Smith