No real than you are

Business Insider gives us yet another hideous chart documenting not just inequality, but the growing chasm between the 1 percenters and the rest of us.

Yep, from 1979 through 2007, the 1-percenters were the only ones who saw their income grow. The rest of us have been headed the other way for more than 30 years.

The Reformed Broker brings us “Alex P. Keaton: An Alternative History.”

Jesus Needs New PR brings us news of “A Handmaid’s Documentary.”

“Michele Bachmann’s misstatements may be catching up to her,” reports Seema Mehta for The Los Angeles Times. Just to be clear, that doesn’t mean that her support has dried up because what she says is “often inaccurate, misleading or wildly untrue.” It means that now that her support has dried up, journalists are no longer afraid to note that what she says is “often inaccurate, misleading or wildly untrue.”

I used to live in hardiness zone 6, now I live in hardiness zone 7. And I haven’t moved.

Alicia Morgan notes that being unemployed is a lot of work.

When you read some reactionary mythmaker denouncing “class warfare” with some patently fake story filled with clichés about lazy liberals and hard-working self-reliant conservatives, you can just shake your head and say, “I find the veracity of this story doubtful.” Or you can do like Buster Blonde and calculate and enumerate all the falsehoods and frauds in an epic takedown: “Don’t Even Get Me Started, Mythical Bootstraps College Student.”

Sinéad O’Connor was factually right and the pope was factually wrong. Sinéad O’Connor was morally right and the pope was morally wrong. Anthony Easton reminds us of that again in a post on “Sinéad, Ireland, and the Meaning of Hair.”

Speaking of cool Irish people, Seamus Finn writes in praise of the 40th anniversary of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.

“Hero Social Worker Barely Survives Tornado, But Workers’ Comp Gets Denied.”

That link takes you to a blood-boiling story of a genuine hero getting screwed over by a big company because it saves them a little money and because they can get away with it. This is the sort of inhuman behavior that clarifies that, regardless of what five Supreme Court justices may say, corporations are not people. They have no soul to save, no body to incarcerate, no heart to break and no ass to kick.

They also have no shame. But they’re capable of a facsimile of it if we’re able to convince them that their despicable behavior may wind up costing them money: “After Media Exposure, Insurance Firm Reverses Claim Denial Against Tornado Hero.”

The reason I characterize much of the anti-abortion movement as a crusade against imaginary Satanic baby-killers is because much of the anti-abortion movement is a crusade against imaginary Satanic baby-killers.

That’s not a metaphor or an analogy. Read Jason Pitzl-Waters on “Blood Libel, Abortion, and Modern Paganism.”

The title for this post comes from this story: “Giant Lego Man washes ashore in Florida.” “No real than you are” is the message that Giant Lego Man brought to our shores.