A compendium of useful and interesting tidbits from around the web, mostly on politics/economics.Tumblr (3.0; @bornweird)http://bornweird.tumblr.com/Text post in here.http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/36688438764http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/36688438764Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:52:56 -0700<object width="400" height="284"> <param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff" /><param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2011G/Blank/RichardWilkinson_2011G-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/RichardWilkinson_2011G-embed.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1253&lang=&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=richard_wilkinson;year=2011;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=rethinking_poverty;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=medicine_without_borders;event=TEDGlobal+2011;tag=culture;tag=data;tag=global+issues;tag=inequality;tag=money;tag=social+change;tag=visualizations;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="400" height="284" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2011G/Blank/RichardWilkinson_2011G-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/RichardWilkinson_2011G-embed.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1253&lang=&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=richard_wilkinson;year=2011;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=rethinking_poverty;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=medicine_without_borders;event=TEDGlobal+2011;tag=culture;tag=data;tag=global+issues;tag=inequality;tag=money;tag=social+change;tag=visualizations;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"></embed></object> <br/><br/>http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/23251711531http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/23251711531Thu, 17 May 2012 16:21:09 -0600<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph">Lots of data on inequality</a>http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/23230947461http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/23230947461Thu, 17 May 2012 09:25:40 -0600<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/05/ted-talk-income-inequality-charts">The TED talk that's not online</a>http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/23230744503http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/23230744503Thu, 17 May 2012 09:19:31 -0600“People say that reducing inequality is radical. I think that tolerating the level of...http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/21270091118http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/21270091118Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:32:51 -0600<a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/hbreditors/2012/03/americas_jobs_and_wages_proble.html">Some interesting graphs</a>http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/20176873550http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/20176873550Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:44:24 -0600<a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/its-wealth-gap-stupid">The Wealth Gap is a bigger deal than the Income Gap</a>http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/20047919626http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/20047919626Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:44:00 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ixnmEsQg1r5z79wo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>From <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/opinion/the-rich-get-even-richer.html">The Rich Get Even Richer</a></p>http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/19993307691http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/19993307691Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:28:34 -0600Inequality undermines democracy: You won’t find a headline more succinct than that.http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/19814444634http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/19814444634Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:42:14 -0600<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21550246">New research hints at ways inequality can spur economic crisis</a>http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/19558911974http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/19558911974Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:13:22 -06006 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying: Okay, so this one isn’t about income inequality, or...http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/18833885466http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/18833885466Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:41:28 -0700Are those in the upper class more inclined to be dishonest and dishonorable?: The title of the...http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/18422449022http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/18422449022Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:22:00 -0700Inequality and the current economy's implications for market democracy.: The best read I’ve...http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/17995680638http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/17995680638Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:58:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzke2pIFmk1r5z79wo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>The problem is that the richest of the rich don’t have wage-based income.</p>http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/17795259975http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/17795259975Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:13:37 -0700Radical Solutions to Economic Inequality: Think the range of political-economic debate hasn’t...http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/17789577023http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/17789577023Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:33:05 -0700Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor Kids: Caused by rising wealth inequality, or simply...http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/17443200942http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/17443200942Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:28:42 -0700Growing wealth widens distance between lawmakers and constituents: A consequence of a widening...http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/14928479869http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/14928479869Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:07:25 -0700Half of America is poor: “Broken down by age, children were most likely to be poor or...http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/14680946381http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/14680946381Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:21:00 -0700Grover Norquist is a fucking douchebag: If you’re wondering why the “lower taxes are...http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/14519048375http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/14519048375Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:58:18 -0700An interesting idea: tie taxes on wealthy to income gap, not just wealth: It would be bad for our...http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/14490907961http://bornweird.tumblr.com/post/14490907961Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:08:40 -0700