Friday, October 19, 2012

Daily Link Dump - October 19, 2012

Revenues from taxes are expected to grow from 16% of GDP to over 18% of GDP by 2022 even with the "Bush tax cuts". Meanwhile, federal spending is expected to never dip below 21%, 1.5 percentage points above sixty-year averages.

Apparently Nicolas Cage is in talks to star in a reboot of the Christian Left Behind series.

Sesame Street isn't happy with sexy Big Bird costumes.

Fewer than 3.5% of people identify as LGBT in a new Gallup poll. I honestly would have thought it higher.

Skip Oliva discusses whether or not sports leagues like the MLB really care if "major market" teams have playoff success.

Where did the phrase "quitting cold turkey" come from?

There's a movie version of Family Circus in the works.

A look at Tarantino's ideas on self-mythology in Pulp Fiction:

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