You’re confusing net worth and income. Different measures. Average net worth of a 1% is somewhere around 8 - 10 million dollars based on who is doing the measuring. (https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/measuring-the-top-1-by-wealth-not-income/ )

Joy Behar’s net worth is 12 million. Meghan McCain’s is 4 million. Joy Behar is a 1%-er and Meghan McCain is a 5-ish%-er. So it would be more like, “Eat the richer, but not the really rich.”

Of course, Cindy McCain is worth an absolute mint, so when she shuffles off this mortal coil, Meghan will become much wealthier,…

Yep, the issue here is that the policy constitutes a contract and they violated the terms of that contract, so those people are entitled to damages. My guess is that Motel 6 will simply quietly modify their privacy policy to exclude law enforcement in the future, while simultaneously promising to educate their staff…

I think it's missing the word "think" after people. So it should say, "that not many people THINK will be an actual improvement."

Pittsburgh was the best thing that ever happened to Phil (or maybe more accurately playing in a media market with two Top 100 players of all time that they can focus on.) I think Toronto was not a good experience for him. I think that he thrives with low pressure. He put up 82 points this year. He also went a month…

Sounds like Tage Erlander. The longest serving Prime Minister in Swedish history that was in power during Harvest Time and basically invented the Swedish Social Safety Net while also increasing Sweden’s military to the fourth largest by per capita spending in the world and requiring registration of minorities. It’s…

I was going to be upset, but it looks like Stormchaser is a vanity project for Linton. She is the director and star of the only two films they have in production. They’ve made three films total, the most successful of which seems to have made 600 thousand dollars at the box office. Linton starred in 2 of them and…

Progress is of course a subjective term. If by progress you mean ability for capital to create more wealth for itself, then you are correct. We have historically had a very difficult time regulating the rich from getting richer.

Please do not eat ramps. Those of us from Appalachia certainly are happy that you enjoy our traditional fare, but find it horrific that you’re denuding our hillsides of our foodstuffs with your appreciation of our culinary culture. Please stick to kale or some other hipster food that doesn’t have to be foraged…

It’s cost that makes these types of things scary. A Predator costs 4 million dollars to make and every Hellfire it shoots costs 117 thousand. Obviously we don’t know the unit cost on this, but it’s not unreasonable to think that it’s measured in the thousands and not the tens of thousands and the ammunition cost is…

Unless you’re willing to drop 3 grand a year or more starting when your kid is 5 and continuing until they are 18, plus costs for hotels for travel, then American youth soccer is not for you. God forbid you actually have a kid with talent because the regional powerhouse teams cost even more. Soccer in the US is a rich…

Maybe I’m missing the forest for the trees, but if they don’t want to have abortions and are having them anyway, the solution to me seems to be to enact policies that prevent unwanted pregnancies and produce more economic opportunities, not change their culture so that they are happier about having abortions. Policies…

Not that you can speak for everyone, but as a general rule, Native Americans have abortions at higher rates than almost any other race, but oppose it at higher rates as well. Native American spirituality places sacred emphasis on the importance of all life, so there is less of an argument over personhood and they tend…

Counterpoint, Jagged Little Pill was actually very good. It has won about a half billion awards and is a cultural touchstone for the era. At least 4 of the songs on the album have effectively permeated culture to the point that anyone who lived through that era would recognize them instantly and most people would be…

My only comment is that I think that Evangelical support for Israel is misconstrued. As an ex-Evangelical, you might hear about end-times prophecy and Israel, but the theological basis is more about ‘God’s chosen people’ and the idea that Israel has a special place in God’s plan and heart, so opposing it is opposing…

Firstly, it won’t happen. No one ever loses Pell eligibility except non-accredited schools that are in seriously dire straits. Certainly not USC or Yale.

Secondly, the article says this because it’s really the only hammer the Department of Education has. There’s no obligation for any university to listen to the…

You’re failing to understand the economy. It’s out of a lack of options. It’s a rural area without land capable of supporting an agricultural base, geography that impedes the development of major metro areas and a dispersed population that tends to not concentrate talent. Educated people have no options for employment…

I will. I live in West Virginia. The liberal grass roots exists, but it’s tiny. West Virginia Democrats are labor New Deal Democrats. They are not identity Democrats. You could go left of Joe economically, but honestly not very far. He’s already an economic liberal. He wants caps on student loans, he’s pro-Obamacare…

I am coming to the conclusion that for large parts of baseball fandom, the point of the game has largely simply become pretty days hanging with friends at the ballpark and the game is largely secondary. The number of games and the fact that wins and losses largely cluster around .500 for every team (Almost no team…

‘Better’ is an inherently subjective construct. Generally speaking, when we mean ‘better’ we mean more like WEIRD countries. It’s a dissemination of a culturally western worldview to the rest of the world which is what I posted above. Spreading a particular culture may not be a great goal, but when we say things like…