Ron Paul: The Venn Diagram
Mother Jones tries what I thought was impossible, which is place his libertarian ideas on the political spectrum in the form of a venn diagram. Congressman Ron Paul’s third-place finish in Tuesday’s Iowa Republican Caucus was a remarkably strong showing for a candidate who has so little in common with mainstream Republicans. Perhaps the nation’s most ...
Edward Tufte Profile
Joshua Yaffa profiles Edward Tufte, one of my personal heros, for The Washington Monthly. After the publication of Envisioning Information, Tufte decided, he told me, “to be indifferent to culture or history or time.” He became increasingly consumed with what he calls “forever knowledge,” or the idea that design is meant to guide fundamental cognitive ...
Where Your Money Goes
The White House has a “neat” little calculator where you insert what you paid in taxes and it tells you were it was spent. Here’s where your money went if you paid $10,000 in income tax last year.
Visualizing Where Your Taxes Go
Via Mother Jones: With DC embroiled in budget battles and April 18 fast approaching, a lot of Americans are thinking about where their federal tax dollars go. Most of us have no clue, as shown by the recent CNN survey in which respodents guessed that NPR accounts for 5 percent of goverment spending (wrong—it’s more like ...
