SingingMongoose
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It's time for everybody's favorite game, Fun with Harper's Index!
In the interests of my sanity and time, I regretfully will not be going through the zine to painfully link every statistic with its source. Personally, I blame Harper's for making it a pain to find their sources - rather disingenuous, I have no choice other than to admit.
All the same, I like what they do. If you would like to call a statistic on the carpet, I would be glad to look up its source for you - you might even catch Harper's in wrongdoing! (The statistics are compiled by interns, after all.)
So without further ado, those parts of the Index I found most interesting:
Well, I daresay that defies CONVENTIONal wisdom! Yuck yuck yuck. (It also reveals a lot about the Dems, imho.)
Did they include American expats in our northern neighbor, Canuckistan? Because I know I've been on the lookout for a reasonably-tolerable Canadian woman - actually, could anyone help me out, maybe with a phone number?
Wow! Four whole cents! But those sneaky buggers at Harper's forgot to tell us how long that would take, or how many refineries we'd have to build...oh, somebody call T. Boone Pickens!
Well, I'm sure most of those were just dudes with flat feet. Surely not the developmentally disabled... (No, that's not a John Kerry-style joke - that's a reference to recruiters who've been caught going after developmentally disabled people.)
It's a good thing Bush took Nelson Mandela off the terrorist list. We might have had an embarassing fiasco, kidnapping a nobel peace prize laureat, torturing him, and leaving him (IF we found him innocent) ignominously on a dirt road somewhere in Eritrea!
Well. What do you expect from the place where this and this happened? I'm just glad that the man responsible for those fiascos is no longer in charge of Texas education - he got a gig at the White House!
I love when this happens. I get to say "Harper's Magazine is Harping on Steven Harper!"
And you know, this is proof that we liberals aren't only concerned with criticizing our own government. After all, we don't do things like that in the United States (but if we did, it would look something like this. At least that column was transparent, listing the author as the Secretary of Commerce).
...I got nothing.
Ah, our uncrushable enterpreneurial miracle-working spirit. (I left out his SS number on ethical grounds, despite its already being made public and his identity having been stolen. It's just good practice.)
And finally, la pièce de résistance:
I'll let you all guess at that one - it's just too incredible. (And no cheating!)
In the interests of my sanity and time, I regretfully will not be going through the zine to painfully link every statistic with its source. Personally, I blame Harper's for making it a pain to find their sources - rather disingenuous, I have no choice other than to admit.
All the same, I like what they do. If you would like to call a statistic on the carpet, I would be glad to look up its source for you - you might even catch Harper's in wrongdoing! (The statistics are compiled by interns, after all.)
So without further ado, those parts of the Index I found most interesting:
Well, I daresay that defies CONVENTIONal wisdom! Yuck yuck yuck. (It also reveals a lot about the Dems, imho.)
Did they include American expats in our northern neighbor, Canuckistan? Because I know I've been on the lookout for a reasonably-tolerable Canadian woman - actually, could anyone help me out, maybe with a phone number?
Wow! Four whole cents! But those sneaky buggers at Harper's forgot to tell us how long that would take, or how many refineries we'd have to build...oh, somebody call T. Boone Pickens!
Well, I'm sure most of those were just dudes with flat feet. Surely not the developmentally disabled... (No, that's not a John Kerry-style joke - that's a reference to recruiters who've been caught going after developmentally disabled people.)
It's a good thing Bush took Nelson Mandela off the terrorist list. We might have had an embarassing fiasco, kidnapping a nobel peace prize laureat, torturing him, and leaving him (IF we found him innocent) ignominously on a dirt road somewhere in Eritrea!
Well. What do you expect from the place where this and this happened? I'm just glad that the man responsible for those fiascos is no longer in charge of Texas education - he got a gig at the White House!
I love when this happens. I get to say "Harper's Magazine is Harping on Steven Harper!"
And you know, this is proof that we liberals aren't only concerned with criticizing our own government. After all, we don't do things like that in the United States (but if we did, it would look something like this. At least that column was transparent, listing the author as the Secretary of Commerce)....I got nothing.
Ah, our uncrushable enterpreneurial miracle-working spirit. (I left out his SS number on ethical grounds, despite its already being made public and his identity having been stolen. It's just good practice.)
And finally, la pièce de résistance:
I'll let you all guess at that one - it's just too incredible. (And no cheating!)
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