When You Assume

(xkcd) – Randall Munroe:

“You assumed?” …

xkcd.com/1339

Southern State Woes

(FTB::Mano Singham) – We all know that the central and southern states are where the real, god-fearing ‘Merkins live, those who uphold the good old-fashioned virtues of independence and hard work, unlike the heathens in the rest of the country with their lazy and hedonistic values.

But Emily Cohn has put together nine maps of the US that show various indicators of income and quality of life. It turns out that the southern states are paying a high price for being able to think of themselves as living the way that god intended.  …

singham/2014/03/07/southern