Observations of the former Enemy Number One from Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti western headquarters, hidden away in the heart of the American Middle West.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Another li'l graph
Courtesy of the good Doctor Krugman (you know, the Nobel laureate in economics?)
Without the right-wing noise machine (yes, I'm talking about you, Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter et al), "conservatism" would be as dead as communism today.
Despite my Russian nom de plume, I was born a not-quite-poor black child in the not-quite-yet integrated South of the United States. My mother was a maid for rich white folks; my mother's mother was a maid for rich white folks; my father was a veteran of a segregated unit in WWII who worked like a galley slave to keep his family fed and sheltered; and my father's father was a big, rough-hewn self-reliant farmer from whom my father learned his work ethic.
I became an engineer because in our day, that was what respectable Negroes did.
Bad idea.
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