Interesting graphs and charts department

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

It was quite an embarrassing moment for Chairman Chaffetz.

I'm surprised, I didn't think those clowns ever got embarrassed by their fellow clowns antics anymore.

[xoxoxoBruce]

WaPo charts what kind of dwelling people live in, single, attached(row and town), multi-units, or mobiles.

[Lamplighter]

That is interesting to me. Do you have a link ?

I have issues comparing things just based on %.
That is, LA is spread out over an enormous area, compared with most other cities.
Also, the % of LA housing of >50 units doesn't seem right
compared with my image of an eastern city like Philadelphia.

Sorting the cities by size might be more informative.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

That is interesting to me. Do you have a link ?

Sure, http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...-city-charted/

I have issues comparing things just based on %.

% of each type of dwelling in each city, is the point. Population is irrelevant. Occams razor.

That is, LA is spread out over an enormous area, compared with most other cities.
Also, the % of LA housing of >50 units doesn't seem right
compared with my image of an eastern city like Philadelphia.

Originally Posted by WaPo

L.A., for its part, is often described as a poster child for sprawl (an accusation aimed at both the city itself and the broader metropolitan area). But L.A. is actually one of the denser places in America, thanks to its many modest-scale multi-family buildings.

Sorting the cities by size might be more informative.

See answer #2 above.

[Lamplighter]

I'm still having a hard time with that link's description of LA.
It seems to be based on a sub-link to the following article...

Measuring Sprawl
A New Index, Recent Trends, and Future Research
Urban Affairs Review Thomas Laidley 33/2/15

... In fact, six of the top 10 least sprawling metros in the country are in California:
L.A., San Francisco, San Jose, Salinas, Santa Barbara and San Diego.
Seven of ten are on the West Coast. Outside of that, Chicago ranks seventh and,
also surprisingly, auto-oriented Miami is tenth.

The East Coast metros of Philadelphia, Boston and D.C. all fail to make the top 10 list.

I'm not quite believing this either.
It just doesn't fit what I remember about LA, SF, SJ and SD,
as compared with Chicago and Boston from my lifetime living
and working in or around those areas.

I'd love to be on this sociology student's Doctorial Thesis Committee.
[OJ] If it doesn't fit, you can't convict. [/OJ]

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

I'd love to be on this sociology student's Doctorial Thesis Committee.

I'll bet you would, how dare his facts and measurements not match you opinion and remembered perceptions.
Torches and pitchforks! String him up, hound him out of academia.
We won't acquit, 'cause he don't fit, we'll box his ears, the little shit.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I'm surprised, I didn't think those clowns ever got embarrassed by their fellow clowns antics anymore.

Kevin McCarthy thought that what happens on Fox News stays on Fox News.

Oooooops ~

Gail Collins - The Opinion Pages: NY Times - 10/1/15

“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?
But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee.
What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping,”

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy bragged to Sean Hannity on Fox News.
McCarthy is hoping to succeed John Boehner as speaker,
and he’s probably nervous about all the praise Boehner
has been getting lately for evenhanded leadership.

McCarthy’s remarks sounded awful to innocent bystanders
— aren’t these things supposed to at least pretend to be fair?
…