Is Mexico’s new President getting advice from John Edwards? Maybe.
Kathryn Bigelow cleans up, again, at NYC Critics Awards.
Atlanta City Council gets a 50% pay raise after 8 years. Can they just make it a full-time job already!?
Does your bank pay less taxes than you do? Probably
Elizabeth Warren gets a seat on the Senate Banking Committee…Warren/Bigelow 2016?
First Lady of France backs same-sex marriage proposal, nicccccccce.
Republicans still don’t believe they lost the 2012 Election? Yup…25% of them also want to seceed…puh-leez.
Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, starts living on Food Stamps today. That’s $30 a week, or my tab at Brick Store Pub most nights.
The US Senate race in Kentucky could get some star-power. If her mom and sister sing at her campaign events, I may have to relocate for a few months. Love them!
Tom Price (R-GA), a doctor mind you, wants you to be in PAIN! The fat-cats should get a day at the spa apparently.
Enjoy your reading….I need a bagel with lox, stat.
darnit, i missed the biggest story of the day by an hour or so – http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/chip-rogers-leaving-state-senate/nTMbb/
And evidently national news now:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/chip-rogers-georgia-resigns_n_2239703.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
JMP
I’m guessing the ‘Chip’/'Will’ Rogers leaving the Ga. Senate will have to pass for the most immediate ‘happy news’ on the day.
“The Recession’s Toll: How Middle Class Wealth Collapsed to a 40-Year Low” by The Atlantic’s Jordan Weissmann
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/12/the-recessions-toll-how-middle-class-wealth-collapsed-to-a-40-year-low/265743/
Yes, again the ‘lesser Depression’ marks us. But good graphs there too, and this reminder: “Here goes: Between 2007 and 2010, the median net worth of U.S. households fell by 47 percent, reaching its lowest level in more than forty years, adjusted for inflation. In other words, middle class wealth virtually evaporated in this country. A good chunk of the population got sucked through a financial wormhole back to the sixties”. Obama & FDR the only US Presidents known to have been reelected under such onerous conditions & ~8%+ unemployment for much of their terms. Utterly remarkable. Still. JMP