Saw this factoid and found it quite interesting. These figures are comparisons at the 1145 day of each respective Presidency. You can compare President Obama’s job approval rating to any other President, all the way back to Harry Truman here.

In a rather entertaining lawsuit just filed in the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), a woman is demanding that the State stop using the word “inmate“…because it is offensive to inmates the unenthusiastically liberty-inhibited. The court action has been started on behalf of her brother and claims that he has suffered […]

No idea if this is true, but it deserves to be: Orville Smith, a store manager for Best Buy in Augusta, Georgia, told police he observed a male customer, later identified as Tyrone Jackson of Augusta, on surveillance cameras putting a laptop computer under his jacket. When confronted, the man […]

Congratulations to the executives of Transocean Ltd., who have just given themselves six-figure bonuses for 2010. The bonuses included large amounts for meeting safety goals that year, described in the SEC filing as “the best year in safety performance in our company’s history.” According to the filing, in 2010 the company […]

A very worrying graph, and a V for Vendetta inspired response. First it was Facebook. Then it was Twitter. Now, in the face of massive protests in the streets of Cairo and throughout the country, Egypt has pulled the plug on the entire Internet for its citizens. As that chart […]

Found this fascinating map today of the USA in the Economist showing the GDP’s of each of the 50 states of the USA (or 57, if you are Obama) as compared to other countries around the world. It gives a very interesting perspective on how the US fits together as […]

Thousands of US sex offenders, prisoners on parole and other convicts were left unmonitored after an electronic tagging system shut down because of data overload. BI Incorporated, which runs the system, reached its data threshold – more than two billion records – on Tuesday. This left authorities across 49 states […]

Remember Major Nidal Malik Hasan? The Religion of Peace guy? It’s been a year now since he jumped on a table, yelled “Alah Hu Akhbar” and began a shooting rampage that killed 13 and wounded 31. Obama was straight on the television (surprise) but didn’t use the T-word (surprise). It […]

The chart, put together by Calculated Risk, and dubbed by BusinessInsider as “The Scariest Job Chart Ever” continues to be, well, scary. It shows that in the United States there is no v-shaped ascent as with other jobs recoveries. The dotted line excludes hirings for the US Census and is […]

…from across the Pond. Just as in the United Kingdom, public sector workers are getting pay raises when the private sector is freezing pay and losing jobs – 7 million in the case of the US. Michael Williams, the Texas Railroad Commissioner has refused to take a $45,000/year raise and […]