Consumers on Strike, An Illustration - The Plank on TNR.com
I'm a little late coming to this, but the indispensable Mike Konczal has a great post pivoting off of the piece I wrote earlier this week on consumer spending, and what it tells us about the kind of recession we experienced and the prospects for recovery

Water Cooler: The talk of local business - Indianapolis Star
Trade journal National Underwriter Life & Health notes all this in a snappy little illustration topped by three peanuts. The chart compares the FIO director's salary ($179,700) to full annual pay for six leading insurance execs. CEO pay at all Standard

A Nice Realistic Illustration Of Government Funding - Federal Government Grants Designed For - Gather.com
The Department of Health and Human Services numerous grants to nonprofit organizations to further improve the circumstances of low-income American and communities along the nation. Many of these grants target increasing the processes by which government

Archibald: Jeffco ballot reads like War and Pieces - Everything Alabama Blog
It's another example -- laid bare in 328 mind-numbing pages -- of why the county so often fails. It's an illustration of how it was set up to fail from the start. We're divided in every way, and that's the way the rest of the state likes it. United