!!!NEWEST UPDATE!!!
(1:10 PM EST 1/11/07)
Just got an email from an anthropology professor at a major American university who thinks that as long as I’m clear that it is only the height of the candidates that reflects their relative wealth, the below graph is not as problematic as I and others have made it out to be. Here's the text of that email...
(1:10 PM EST 1/11/07)
Just got an email from an anthropology professor at a major American university who thinks that as long as I’m clear that it is only the height of the candidates that reflects their relative wealth, the below graph is not as problematic as I and others have made it out to be. Here's the text of that email...
Gee, the candidates all look fantastic in the picture. Even Bill Richardson looks fit and trim. What’s going on? Are they all on some kind of new miracle diet? I’m trying to shed a few extra pounds I put on over the holidays …if you know what their secret is can you pass it along?
Yes, I agree completely. The candidates look better than I’ve ever seen them. As impressive as Richardson weigh loss has been, I'm even more impressed with Guliani’s transformation..
Yes, I agree completely. The candidates look better than I’ve ever seen them. As impressive as Richardson weigh loss has been, I'm even more impressed with Guliani’s transformation..
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Geesh, I knew Mitt Romney was big rich dick but gadzooks.
Yes, next to the other candidates he looks like the old Marvel comic character Galactus. He’s like an energy sucking mutant in an evolutionary state between a giant with a out-of-whack pituitary gland and celestial body with it’s own gravitational pull.
Dennis Kucinich, whose modest net worth most closely resembles the average Americans, looks like a deer tick compared to Romney. Keep in mind Kucinich might not be rich but he certainly isn’t poor - his net worth is now somewhere over $200,000 making it more than twice the size of the median net worth of the average American family.
Actually, if you were to imagine the above scene in 1:1 real world scale, with Kucinich playing the role of the normal sized human and Mitt Romney being larger than him relative to there differences in net worth, Romney would be as tall as 6.7 Sears Roebuck towers stacked on top of each other like so...
Yes, next to the other candidates he looks like the old Marvel comic character Galactus. He’s like an energy sucking mutant in an evolutionary state between a giant with a out-of-whack pituitary gland and celestial body with it’s own gravitational pull.
Dennis Kucinich, whose modest net worth most closely resembles the average Americans, looks like a deer tick compared to Romney. Keep in mind Kucinich might not be rich but he certainly isn’t poor - his net worth is now somewhere over $200,000 making it more than twice the size of the median net worth of the average American family.
Actually, if you were to imagine the above scene in 1:1 real world scale, with Kucinich playing the role of the normal sized human and Mitt Romney being larger than him relative to there differences in net worth, Romney would be as tall as 6.7 Sears Roebuck towers stacked on top of each other like so...
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Remember in this picture Kucinich would be a normal, 5-foot-7-inch-sized human - walking up the sidewalk down in one of those windy corridors or lying on that thin strip of Lake Michigan beach rubbing organic and animal friendly sun block all over his pasty-white bony body - oblivious to the fact that Joe Biden’s giving his wife a “free swim lesson” down near the waters edge, or that there’s a mile high prick in the sky blocking out all the sun light.
Note:
Do your own google search for Romney’s net wealth you’ll often see a number closer to $250 million pop up. When that’s the case it’s because a very lame reporter and/or editor are for some reason (like having their head up their ass) failing to count the $70 million
blind trust Romney has set up for and the rest of his
peppy, preppy offspring. If anything $350 million sounds like a low ball figure - many believe his assets are in fact well over $400 million. According to this New York Times article, analysts who tracked his compensation said it was likely to exceed $500 million.
And since were on the subject of Tagg - Come on Andrew, lay off the kid would yah! If you had that kind of money you too might be brimming with clean-shaven-touch-football-in the backyard-with-
Dad-and-the-bros,-there’s-nothing-that-can’t-be-achieved-if-god-
fearing-non-muslim-people-would-come-together-roll-up-their-
oxford-cloth-sleeves-and-open-there-hearts-to-their fellow-man
type of enthusiasm for life.
Do your own google search for Romney’s net wealth you’ll often see a number closer to $250 million pop up. When that’s the case it’s because a very lame reporter and/or editor are for some reason (like having their head up their ass) failing to count the $70 million
blind trust Romney has set up for and the rest of his
peppy, preppy offspring. If anything $350 million sounds like a low ball figure - many believe his assets are in fact well over $400 million. According to this New York Times article, analysts who tracked his compensation said it was likely to exceed $500 million.
And since were on the subject of Tagg - Come on Andrew, lay off the kid would yah! If you had that kind of money you too might be brimming with clean-shaven-touch-football-in the backyard-with-
Dad-and-the-bros,-there’s-nothing-that-can’t-be-achieved-if-god-
fearing-non-muslim-people-would-come-together-roll-up-their-
oxford-cloth-sleeves-and-open-there-hearts-to-their fellow-man
type of enthusiasm for life.
Yes, Huckabee had a prior appointment looking deeply into men’s souls and wasn’t able to make it for the photo shoot. Fortunately, Wayne Dumond was kind enough to climb up from the depths of hell and stand in for him at the last minute.
We were so impressed with Wayne’s effort, his playful sense of irony, and his impassioned pleas not to send him back to the netherworld that we agreed to hire him on a conditional trial basis.
So far I can report that he’s been nothing but a delight to have around. He’s always ready, willing, and eager to “take one for the team” and do the jobs no one else wants to do - like sweeping the badly lit staircase down near the woman’s restroom, or putting in the long graveyard hours as the lone security guard at the company parking garage. I’m proud to say he’s been with us two weeks now and not one intern has been raped yet.
We were so impressed with Wayne’s effort, his playful sense of irony, and his impassioned pleas not to send him back to the netherworld that we agreed to hire him on a conditional trial basis.
So far I can report that he’s been nothing but a delight to have around. He’s always ready, willing, and eager to “take one for the team” and do the jobs no one else wants to do - like sweeping the badly lit staircase down near the woman’s restroom, or putting in the long graveyard hours as the lone security guard at the company parking garage. I’m proud to say he’s been with us two weeks now and not one intern has been raped yet.
Hey, that doesn’t look like Mike Huckabee.
Why’s Ron Paul missing?
Actually he’s not.
See that omniscient and all-powerful cloud of nourishing and restorative white light hovering in space two inches northwest of Romney’s right gonad?
You can’t.
Ohhhh, I see…you’re a member of “the reality based community” and not one of Paul’s sycophantic, hyper-sensitive, supporters who have mistaken a former Texas rep./gynecologist with the second coming of Christ.
Yes… that probably is the problem……here….do this…
Actually he’s not.
See that omniscient and all-powerful cloud of nourishing and restorative white light hovering in space two inches northwest of Romney’s right gonad?
You can’t.
Ohhhh, I see…you’re a member of “the reality based community” and not one of Paul’s sycophantic, hyper-sensitive, supporters who have mistaken a former Texas rep./gynecologist with the second coming of Christ.
Yes… that probably is the problem……here….do this…
Now do you see him?
Let me add, just for the record...
I have no big problem with Paul himself. Yes, he’s a loon in a “the-U.N.-is-conspiring-to-sap-us-of-our-purity-of essence” kind of way, but other than that he seems like a nice enough guy. Even a lefty like myself can appreciate his performances in the Republican debates.
His supporters, on the other hand, appear in need of a long group therapy session and a truckload of Paxil.
Yes, it’s easy to fall into a sweaty-palmed, dilated-eyed, paranoid state when you been up till 4 am every night typing out hundreds of angry emails to any web-based entity that dares say less than becoming things about your candidate….and yes, it’s mentally exhausting to constantly suppress the urge to explore the question of why your candidate appeals to both neo-nazis and right-of-center hippies (Yes, I'm talking about the chubby guy in the tie-dye, with bad b.o and an Ayn Rand book in his lap you had to sit next to at last week's Ron Paul '08 meeting)…and yes…yes, it‘s completely understandable that going up against the likes of Matt Drudge, Roger Ailes, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right-wing smear machine has got you feeling a bit fragile and emotionally drained at the moment but…
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU PEOPLE EXPECT?
Wake up and smell the enhanced interrogation memo, your candidate is seeking the nomination of the…
THE REPUBULICAN FUCKIN’ PARTY
A party that over the last decade has devolved into little more than a collection of angry white people with zero tolerance for dissent.
A party, spawned 154 years ago in a noble effort to oppose slavery, that in its present incarnation is quickly approaching the status of a hate group (I doubt it’d even be legal in a handful of Western European counties).
A party that’s got itself so bound up in a tight little ball of Ann Coulteresque hate, that all its smaller concerns, fetus fetishes, and other impurities has been burned off or vaporized in the resulting heat and pressure.
The result of this alchemy is that the entire party philosophy has been condensed down to three pure unifying elements - three subjects that are guaranteed to get you the biggest round of applause at a GOP event - three things that all factions of the party can agree on - and pretty much the only things that the party base really cares about anymore…
Torture Arabs
Keep out "Spics"
Eliminate taxes
That’s it. That’s all that’s left. These three phrases, these seven words are pretty much all that remains of the Grand Old Party.
SO QUICK YOUR BITCH SQUEALING AND GET THE FUCK OUT!
Get Paul to jump ship, or get yourself a new candidate (and after watching the recent Ron Paul anti-immigration ad I think you might want to consider the latter).
And please, show us that your on the road to recovery and don’t flood my inbox.
Let me add, just for the record...
I have no big problem with Paul himself. Yes, he’s a loon in a “the-U.N.-is-conspiring-to-sap-us-of-our-purity-of essence” kind of way, but other than that he seems like a nice enough guy. Even a lefty like myself can appreciate his performances in the Republican debates.
His supporters, on the other hand, appear in need of a long group therapy session and a truckload of Paxil.
Yes, it’s easy to fall into a sweaty-palmed, dilated-eyed, paranoid state when you been up till 4 am every night typing out hundreds of angry emails to any web-based entity that dares say less than becoming things about your candidate….and yes, it’s mentally exhausting to constantly suppress the urge to explore the question of why your candidate appeals to both neo-nazis and right-of-center hippies (Yes, I'm talking about the chubby guy in the tie-dye, with bad b.o and an Ayn Rand book in his lap you had to sit next to at last week's Ron Paul '08 meeting)…and yes…yes, it‘s completely understandable that going up against the likes of Matt Drudge, Roger Ailes, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right-wing smear machine has got you feeling a bit fragile and emotionally drained at the moment but…
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU PEOPLE EXPECT?
Wake up and smell the enhanced interrogation memo, your candidate is seeking the nomination of the…
THE REPUBULICAN FUCKIN’ PARTY
A party that over the last decade has devolved into little more than a collection of angry white people with zero tolerance for dissent.
A party, spawned 154 years ago in a noble effort to oppose slavery, that in its present incarnation is quickly approaching the status of a hate group (I doubt it’d even be legal in a handful of Western European counties).
A party that’s got itself so bound up in a tight little ball of Ann Coulteresque hate, that all its smaller concerns, fetus fetishes, and other impurities has been burned off or vaporized in the resulting heat and pressure.
The result of this alchemy is that the entire party philosophy has been condensed down to three pure unifying elements - three subjects that are guaranteed to get you the biggest round of applause at a GOP event - three things that all factions of the party can agree on - and pretty much the only things that the party base really cares about anymore…
Torture Arabs
Keep out "Spics"
Eliminate taxes
That’s it. That’s all that’s left. These three phrases, these seven words are pretty much all that remains of the Grand Old Party.
SO QUICK YOUR BITCH SQUEALING AND GET THE FUCK OUT!
Get Paul to jump ship, or get yourself a new candidate (and after watching the recent Ron Paul anti-immigration ad I think you might want to consider the latter).
And please, show us that your on the road to recovery and don’t flood my inbox.
…just look at him….he hasn’t looked that fit since he was helping frame black teens as a young federal prosecutor back in the 70s…. He’s just brimming with youthful confidence and vigor - I’ll bet Judith Nathan’s never had more semi-flaccid cock in her life.
Note to Judith:
Here’s a word of caution for you now that Rudi’s a partially-functioning sexual partner again (yes, I know your fingers are still doing most of the work but hey…at least he’s helping) .
What this means is that Rudy’s “semen clock” has now begin to tick. Analysis of past relationships would suggest you’ve got about 152 more orgasms before he starts looking for newer plastic-surgery-enhanced pastures to plant his seed (Yes, I know a couple chronically fatigued sperm swimming listlessly around a pea sized drop of largely transparent seminal fluid hardly counts as a seed but lets humor him, he is a cancer survivor after all). If I were you I’d start thinking about updating my Match.com profile.
As to the subject of a miracle diet that the candidates are on - in a matter of days The Memling Index will be reavealing highly confidential and scandoulous information concerning the candidates sudden and dramatic weight loss......so check back in.
Note to Judith:
Here’s a word of caution for you now that Rudi’s a partially-functioning sexual partner again (yes, I know your fingers are still doing most of the work but hey…at least he’s helping) .
What this means is that Rudy’s “semen clock” has now begin to tick. Analysis of past relationships would suggest you’ve got about 152 more orgasms before he starts looking for newer plastic-surgery-enhanced pastures to plant his seed (Yes, I know a couple chronically fatigued sperm swimming listlessly around a pea sized drop of largely transparent seminal fluid hardly counts as a seed but lets humor him, he is a cancer survivor after all). If I were you I’d start thinking about updating my Match.com profile.
As to the subject of a miracle diet that the candidates are on - in a matter of days The Memling Index will be reavealing highly confidential and scandoulous information concerning the candidates sudden and dramatic weight loss......so check back in.
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!!!!EARLIER UPDATE!!!
Oops! Looks like I messed up.
A reader just wrote in an informed me…
“It's always bad when you scale a 2-d bar graph in both directions this
way. It visually makes the difference seem much greater - basically
squaring the ratios between two values visually. In fact, in this case,
when the bars are representing 3-d objects (people) we imagine them
scaled in the front-to-back direction, thus changing the perception to
the cube of the actual ratios.”
I’m not quite sure how to go about making what he described as a 3-D version scaled in the front-to-back direction (I will try and learn soon) so for the time being I’ve forced the figures into the more tradition, and admittedly less dramatic, bar graph below.
Oh well, live and learn. Thanks for the tip Thomas.
!!!!EARLIER UPDATE #2!!!
Someone just wrote to Andrew Sullivan with an even better and clearer explanation of what I did wrong LINK. Oy! I think I need a left-brained intern...or at least someone who didn't "wake and bake" their way through 1st period Geometry back in 10th grade.....any volunteers? I'll try to make and post one of those lifeless yet accurate Microsoft Works 3D bar graphs in morning (I never did bother 1/11/07)......and remember kids JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS.
Oops! Looks like I messed up.
A reader just wrote in an informed me…
“It's always bad when you scale a 2-d bar graph in both directions this
way. It visually makes the difference seem much greater - basically
squaring the ratios between two values visually. In fact, in this case,
when the bars are representing 3-d objects (people) we imagine them
scaled in the front-to-back direction, thus changing the perception to
the cube of the actual ratios.”
I’m not quite sure how to go about making what he described as a 3-D version scaled in the front-to-back direction (I will try and learn soon) so for the time being I’ve forced the figures into the more tradition, and admittedly less dramatic, bar graph below.
Oh well, live and learn. Thanks for the tip Thomas.
!!!!EARLIER UPDATE #2!!!
Someone just wrote to Andrew Sullivan with an even better and clearer explanation of what I did wrong LINK. Oy! I think I need a left-brained intern...or at least someone who didn't "wake and bake" their way through 1st period Geometry back in 10th grade.....any volunteers? I'll try to make and post one of those lifeless yet accurate Microsoft Works 3D bar graphs in morning (I never did bother 1/11/07)......and remember kids JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS.
!!!NOTE!!!
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!!!NOTE!!!
In light of the new information (see updates above), this graphic also turns out to be (somewhat) bogus.
HOWEVER
Romney would still be this high in relation to Kucinich as long as you imaging him possessing no width or depth (so you see, it's not such a stretch after all)
In light of the new information (see updates above), this graphic also turns out to be (somewhat) bogus.
HOWEVER
Romney would still be this high in relation to Kucinich as long as you imaging him possessing no width or depth (so you see, it's not such a stretch after all)
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"I just want to say that I know a little bit about size and scaling, and while your critics are _technically_ correct about 3D objects' scaling, your original graphic is not as flawed as you currently make it out to be [bolding mine]. As long as you are clear that it is only the height of the candidates that reflects their relative wealth, it's not that problematic, and in fact, it makes more sense from a human perspective, since we're used to seeing the human form in its appropriate scale, to go ahead and scale them the way you did in your first graphic, rather than resizing them into those narrow-ass bars like you did in response to the critiques".
In other words, don't be so damn apologetic. What you did the first time was damn fine the way it was. Sometimes my nerdy academic compatriots annoy the crap out of me".
That said, when you look at the below graph keep in mind that it is only the height of the candidates that reflects their relative wealth.
He and others have also given me some advise on how to construct the picture in a way that the actual volume of the candidates' bodies is sized relative to their wealth. In the coming weeks I might take a stab at it.
He and others have also given me some advise on how to construct the picture in a way that the actual volume of the candidates' bodies is sized relative to their wealth. In the coming weeks I might take a stab at it.