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The typical person in the top 5 percent of the Indian population, for example, makes the same as or less than the typical person in the bottom 5 percent of the American population. That’s right: America’s poorest are, on average, richer than India’s richest — extravagant Mumbai mansions notwithstanding.

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This is absolutely fascinating.

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Well, just off the top of my head, I’d say: One who doesn’t want to be robbed, kidnapped, or murdered … all of which have happened recently to Americans in Pakistan.

That’s just a guess, you understand.

And for America, the case risks revealing many awkward truths. Who exactly is Raymond Davis, described by the US as a member of “technical and administrative staff”? What sort of “diplomat” carries a weapon? What was he doing driving alone through Lahore? Was he actually working for a private military contractor, Hyperion? Was he meeting an informer? Such is the panic, that last week the State Department spokesman denied his name was even “Raymond Davis”. Then this week, a spokeswoman for the embassy in Islamabad said Crowley had not denied the name was “Raymond Davis”.

The only awkward truth revealed here is that the American Foreign Service is staffed by an agglomeration of feckless retards, who work for a State Department run by dickless douchebags (yeah, I’m lookin’ at you, Hil). And anybody with a brain already knew that.

The Other McCain watches CNN so that you don’t have to.

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Michael says that he’s already gotten so many requests for one that he’s planning on putting it into production.

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The Vikings may have used the ancient equivalent of polarized glass to navigate in cloudy weather, suggest new reports on a long-hypothesized but never-tested “sunstone compass.”

Archaeologists know Vikings used sundials to steer between Norway and Greenland, but this method could only have worked in sunshine. How Vikings found their way in clouds or fog remains a mystery.

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Anyone who has studied the Muslim Brotherhood, or Islam in general, knows that a believer is not just permitted to lie, not just encouraged to lie, but required to lie if the action in question is required. It is mandatory for believers to work to establish the rule of sharia in any Muslim state. Therefore, when necessary, it is mandatory for believers to lie in order to achieve that end.

The Muslim Brotherhood will be more than happy to “reject violence”. No problem!

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And that’s the important thing, of course.

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We have the technology.

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The Office of Naval Research TechSolutions department has delivered the first 30 sets of what it calls Fast-Tint Protective Eyewear (FTPE). They can change tint automatically based on exterior light, much like currently available prescription glasses, but thanks to their LCD construction can go from dark to clear in just a half-second. This means a SEAL squad could blow a door and infiltrate a room without having to ask the terrorists to hold their fire while everyone takes off their shades.

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Heck, forget the wealthiest two percent–the top one percent are pretty much pulling the wagon, as the Blogprof shows with this chart. The top one percent pay more income taxes than the bottom 95 percent.

We are rapidly reaching the point where a large majority of Americans are free riders. Whether democracy can survive under that condition is a wide-open question.

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It is very ironic that one of the only mainstream news-media reports I have read about the plight of Coptic believers in Egypt was in the Baltimore Sun and it centered on the insights of people in — wait for it — Baltimore.

So it seems that the Copts are news in Baltimore, but not in Cairo. Go figure.

The Copts are what’s left of the original inhabitants of Egypt, displaced and suppressed by Arabs over the last 1400 years.

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GOOD LUCK getting anything past government regulators.

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Little more than a year ago, Google first allowed netizens to upload any file to Google Docs, a move that transformed the service into something not unlike the oft-rumored but never delivered “GDrive”. And now the company is going a few steps further.