Not surprising that a report sponsored by the Koch brothers would choose an arbitrary cutoff to support their stances.  If you use a cutoff equivalent to $2.50 a day, which most experts refer to as abject poverty, then more people are living in extreme poverty now than they were 40 years ago (15% increase).


Almost all the improvement in the lower threshold, $1.25 per day, is due to China.

Clapping!!  Good detective work on the Kochs

see the long wades vs. cubs fans debate about how the Brewers “faltered down the stretch” last year (if you ignore the fact that the brewers highest winning percentage of the season came in september and second highest winning percentage came in August, the last 2 months of the season, the cubs fans certainly would have won that debate).

according to some cubs fans the brewers faltering out of the gates after the as break was the brewers “faltering down the stretch.”

That explains ... well ... nothing. But that's cool. Fans don't have to be rational. I'm not always rational about the Golden Warriors.

So the Cubs needed to be swept now to avoid it a month from now? Please explain.

see the long wades vs. cubs fans debate about how the Brewers “faltered down the stretch” last year (if you ignore the fact that the brewers highest winning percentage of the season came in september and second highest winning percentage came in August, the last 2 months of the season, the cubs fans certainly would have won that debate).

according to some cubs fans the brewers faltering out of the gates after the as break was the brewers “faltering down the stretch.”

Those hapless Reds have won 10 of their last 12 and are 21-18 since May 8th. They really have improved since firing Bryan Price.

I’ll put that 2015 Phillies series over this one any day in terms of bad.

IOW, 17-18 before sweeping the Cubs. Meh. I may be wrong, but when we look at their record at season's end I think hapless will apply.

The 2015 Phils may have been worse, though - I'll grant you that.

I already find myself longing for the "good old days"when the lies being told and defended were as stupid (and innocuous) as the size of a crowd. The Trumpites and anti Trumpites have both graduated to bigger and better stuff.

Lol. No.