Here are some excerpts from the latest edition of the Harper’s Index:
• Percentage of U.S. apartments under construction that are unaffordable for those making less than $75,000 a year: 83
• Percentage change since 2006 in the number of U.S. cities that have banned living in vehicles: +143
• Portion of Americans aged 18 to 34 who live with their parents or other family members: 2/5
• Estimated portion of Americans born in 1980 who will go on to earn more than their parents did: 1/2
• Of those born in 1940 who did: 9/10
• Number of Asian-American women who have won an Oscar for an acting role: 1
• Of white women who have won an Oscar for playing an Asian character: 2
• Estimated number of years that the Chinese government had a monopoly on table salt before it ended in January: 2,660
• Estimated 2017 U.S. budget for identifying and combating foreign propaganda efforts: $100,000,000
• For conducting its own psychological operations abroad: $179,200,000
• Number of offshore wind turbines in the United States: 5
• In the United Kingdom: 1,463
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality."
—Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon, 1940
TWEET(s) OF THE DAY
BLAST FROM THE PAST
At on this date in 2006—Cheney drank before shooting his pal:
E&P:
In an exclusive interview with Fox News' Brit Hume this afternoon, Vice President Dick Cheney took full responsibility for shooting his hunting companion, who has until now been pictured as the guilty party. The interview will not aired in full until 6 p.m. but according to Hume, in summarizing the contents, the vice president remained "totally unapologetic" about the long lag in reporting the shooting to the public—and also said that he had consumed one beer at lunch that day.
Cheney must consume a virtual cocktail of drugs every day because of his heart condition. I wonder what kind of reaction throwing alcohol into the mix might have.
Any doctors in the house?
Update: Here's video of Hume talking about his interview with Cheney. You see, according to Cheney, they drank beer but no one drank beer:
HUME: He said he had a beer at lunch and that had been many hours earlier. And it was dusk, around 5:00 p.m., when this incident happened. And he said that, you know, they had lunch out in the field, a barbecue, and he had a beer. But you said you don’t hunt with people who have been drinking. He said no one was drinking. He said they went back to the ranch afterwards, took a break after that, and went out about 3:00 and so you’re four or five hours distanced from the last alcohol that he consumed. And he said no one was drinking, not he nor anyone else.
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