Posts Tagged “politics”

Check the collection of mostly original infographs!

by tom acox on April 13, 2011

Okay, not mostly, but the best are original…Remember to click each individual post to see the image. You can find the collection here.

The near government shutdown as an episode of House

by tom acox on April 11, 2011

You know, seemingly deadly disease and description of disease, in this case debt that isn’t actually pushing up our borrowing costs. (Commercial/Tweet from Matt Yglesias). We think we know what to do but we will have to try lots of (…)

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Shrimp, Oil, and Prices

by tom acox on April 10, 2011

It was widely and correctly predicted last year that the price of shrimp was going rise as a result of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  The Raleigh Times, a restaurant in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, has found (…)

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