National Review: Neil de Grasse Tyson cover

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Why am I not surprised by the cover, or the unflattering editorial?

Tyson's own reaction on Bill Maher's program, Friday night.

Comments

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Everything is odd to you, probably because you are really an alien.

Just follow the money, and see what has been happening to it since Republicans started occupying some real power (with the Reagan administration).

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

We've all been richer and better off?

It's more that I don't think you actually know what corporatism entails.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

You sound like a corporate jingle.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Your mother smells funny?

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder if you are just a precocious ten-year-old.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I'm just not following your angle here at all.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I suppose it is kind of like matter meeting anti-matter. It's okay, sometimes we don't make music and it's best just to quit, and maybe we'll try to dance again later.

If you are feeling bored, you can always talk to Oslo.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

We don't make music? But I thought I sounded like a jingle!

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

But we're out of harmony, which just makes it noise.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Or jazz.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Maybe Chet can save this thread.

[oslo.livejournal.com]

Not surprised that you apparently have no idea what jazz is.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Jeff will never respond directly to anything Oslo says since Oslo is always right on the mark. Instead he'll respond indirectly to someone else's comment.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

I know. I was just reminding him of his options, that he can always change his mind. It's too bad: they can make for some interesting reading.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Jingleism!

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Is that bear smoking or having his temperature taken?

[i.livejournal.com]

If by "we've all been richer and better off" you mean the wealthiest of the wealthy, you are right for once.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Look at everyone's wealth growing!

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

We're looking at proportions, Jeff.

We're not going to regard everyone as doing so so well in comparison to the 1940s because we all have tvs, fridges, and no polio, Jeff.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

But we should, that's the point.

When I said everyone is getting richer, that graph was a rebuttal to it and made my point.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

You're not even making sense, now, Jeff. Can't handle the truth, I suppose. You have yet to respond directly to anything Oslo says, because you know he's smarter and better educated than you.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I don't know what sense I'm not making here, but when a graph proves my point, there's not much else to say.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

You're completely incapable of seeing the difference between the two graphs, you've made that more than obvious.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Tell me what I'm missing then, perhaps in the context of the comment it purportedly debunks. If you can.

[rowsdowerisms.livejournal.com]

Lolz you don't know the difference between wealth and income. This explains a lot.
Median wealth is down 20% since the 80s
http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/working_papers/pfeffer-danziger-schoeni_wealth-levels.pdf