also he has a social media presence that is equivalent to that dad of a
kid in your friend group who always volunteers to “supervise” the pool
parties and scoots his lawn chair close to all the girls.
In his new book, “The Great Divide,” Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, includes two chapters whose titles sum it up: “Inequality Is Not Inevitable” and “Inequality Is a Choice.”
“I overheard one billionaire — who had gotten his start in life by inheriting a fortune — discuss with another the problem of lazy Americans who were trying to free ride on the rest,” Stiglitz writes. “Soon thereafter, they seamlessly transitioned into a discussion of tax shelters.”
This delightfully terrifying “Meeping Angel“ statue is the work of Salt Lake City-based artist Kerry Gisler. Inspired by a Photoshop illustration created last year by David Stokes, Gisler combined and then painted Beaker and Weeping Angel figures to create this geektastic Henson-Whovian nightmare.
Maryland state attorney Marilyn J. Mosby announced Friday morning that Freddie Gray’s death at the hands of Baltimore police was a homicide, and that criminal charges will be filed.
“Mr. Gray’s death was a homicide,” Mosby said at a press conference adding, there is “probable cause to file criminal charges.”