The Life & Times...
I am quite the sparkling conversationalist..
Âllo qu'est-ce qui se passe? // allo, how's it going? Tell me your secrets, I'm listening....
~ previously on sofarsoShawn:
former WaPo Journal ~ finished the lengthy god awful process of a Bone Marrow Transplant for Leukemia (AML)...interests: tech, politics, books, & keeping a sense of humour :)
Aesthetics, I like. The quotidien ~taking note of the beautiful that surround us every day
Oh btw I'm very, very controversial. [Parental Fuckn Advisory]
Mitt Romney’s surge in the polls is striking fear into the hearts of Democrats everywhere.
While Gallup’s daily tracking poll has Obama holding on to a 5-point lead, the initial wave of polls has made clear that Romney has just as good a shot to win the presidency as Obama — and that the wind is at the Republican’s back.
“If you expect there to be another correction back toward Obama, which might happen, it hasn’t happened yet — and the jobs report isn’t enough to do it,” said Paul Maslin, a Democratic pollster who has worked at the presidential campaign level.
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner prepares to skydive from space, or at least 18 miles above the earth. He fell at over 500 mph!
pretty incredible stat you have to admit
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I WANT YOU TO BE PROUD OF BEING GAY
TAKE NO SHIT
Did you know that Muslims and Mormons are on the rise in America? The change reflects immigration patterns.
The Muslim population in the U.S. soared in the 10 years since 9/11, swelling from 1.5 million to 2.6 million, a 66 percent increase, according to data from the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. Their numbers now eclipse U.S. Jews. Researchers say the rise has been fueled by immigration and conversions.
The number of Mormons, officially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, grew from 4.2 million to 6.1 million in the last decade. The 45 percent increase added up to the most new members of any religious group since 2000.
ugh
Colbert on North Carolina
How I feel about North Carolina passing A1
~ Aziz Ansari
“The continuing growth of the wage gap between high and middle earners is the result of various laissez-faire policies (acts of omission as well as commission) including globalization, deregulation, privatization, eroded unionization, and weakened labor standards…The gap between the very highest earners — the top 1 percent — and all other earners, including other high earners, reflects the escalation of CEO and other managers’ compensation and the growth of compensation in the financial sector.”
— Larry Mishel, President of the Economic Policy Institute, speaking about the institute’s forthcoming study, “The State of Working America.”
TPM’s Brian Beutler looks the EPI’s new reflections on the status of the U.S. worker over the last several decades.
(via dendroica)
Where you’re from can mean a 15-year difference in your life expectancy. In other words, move in with Bay Area liberals and avoid Mississippi.
New data released from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation showed that Marin County — a famous bastion of Bay Area liberalism — had the longest life expectancy of any U.S. county for men, and the second-longest for women.
“The people in Marin decided to live healthier, and they are getting their reward for their lifestyle,” Dr. Ali Mokdad, whose team prepared the report, told the Mercury News.
In parts of the southeastern U.S., however, the odds of living to a ripe old age aren’t quite so bright: Two counties in Mississippi — Quitman and Tunica — are among the five shortest life expectancies for both genders, as is West Virginia’s McDowell County.
