THIS is a CLOSE-UP?

Now in its thirteenth year, the annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge is always an entertaining tour of the college basketball world, but this year is extra special, as all twelve teams in both conferences will participate, thanks to the addition of Nebraska to the Big Ten. While the Challenge has historically been controlled by the ACC, winning the first ten times these two conferences tangled, the Big Ten has won two in a row, and is in good position to make it three this year. Lots of talent, lots of tangles...it's what college basketball should be. And what college football should try, too. ESPN has all the action, with times listed below in EST: Tuesday, Nov. 29th Michigan at Virginia [7:00 p.m., ESPN2] Tuesday, Nov. 29th Northwestern at Georgia Tech [7:15 p.m., ESPNU] Tuesday, Nov. 29th Illinois at Maryland [7:30 p.m., ESPN] Tuesday, Nov. 29th Miami at Purdue [9:00 p.m., ESPN2] Tuesday, Nov. 29th Clemson at Iowa [9:15 p.m., ESPNU] Tuesday, Nov. 29th Duke at Ohio State [

Now this I don't fully understand. Every now and again, I check the "Stats" tab here at this blog, and it's always interesting to see where in the world the pageviews come from. For example, twenty-two pageviews today from Spain? Over twelve hundred pageviews from Belgium in the life of this blog? Who are you people? And why won't you leave any comments?

I'm posting a good chunk of this site in this entry -- blame the lazy Thanksgiving torpor -- not because it will change anything, but because it's good to repeat factual information to those in the 99% over and over again, until something changes. Like how roundabouts (yes, the traffic variety as opposed to the Yes song) help save lives when compared to four-way stops. Anyway, without further ado, and formatting be damned, the repetition of the facts (and lies) behind the knee-capping of the future of hundreds of millions of Americans: FACTS ABOUT THE 99 PERCENT AND THEIR HAPPIER COUNTERPARTS, THE 1 PERCENT The richest 5 percent of households obtained roughly 82 percent of all the nation's gains in wealth between 1983 and 2009. The bottom 60 percent of households actually had less wealth in 2009 than in 1983, meaning they did not participate at all in the growth of wealth over this period. The average wealth of the 1% is 225 times bigger (PDF) than the wealth of the typi