StickWithANose

First up, Pirate Hominids!
Low Down on the Jobs Report
Neanderthal Body Paint?
Labor Push-back on Health Care Reform
Six Questions on Yemen
Anthropology at War
China is not a super-power
Watching Timmy Cry…

From Angry Bear
Starting with the $200-500K category, the share of earnings from labor begins a marked decline. By the time you hit mid-six figures, average earnings from income, dividends, and capital gains become high enough to provide middle-class or better incomes without (necessarily) working. Tax returns in the upper-six-figure bucket, on average, show more income [...]

First time tragedy; second time farce. From the BBC’s the Power of Nightmares:

A sociology professor of mine once said: ‘Societies are either progressing or are in decline. There is no stasis.’ His point was that the time-consciousness of Western modernity is defined by dynamic transformation in which each moment in time is, in effect, a present-history. Being all reflective on this New Years day, this educative moment [...]

It would appear as though Obama’s channeling of Uncle Milty’s now infamous Shock Doctrine is coming to fruition. State budgets may be collapsing nation-wide, but Tennessee’s budget forecasts are simply terrible. With Arne Duncan dangling billions in front of state legislatures, the Obama administration is wrestling concessions from states like Tennessee over charter schools and [...]

Even through the fog of a X-mas cold, Stick finds in his bountiful heart a need to share with you all a happy holidays! See you next week…

Here is a great post a la’ Lawyers, Guns & Money on the Monty Hall problem.  I think that I’ll be trying this one out very soon…
The Monty Hall problem is a well-known thought experiment in probability analysis. The problem is fairly simple, but for reasons that aren’t well understood the right answer is sufficiently [...]

I implore one and all to click through to read this article by R. Taggart Murphy in the Asia-Pacific Journal. It is one of the most clear-headed essays that I’ve seen published in recent memory that addresses the sociology of financial bubbles from a critical perspective and situates our current economic malaise as a crisis [...]