Well, gentle readers, I last wrote about inequality—at least as a main subject—on February 22. I labeled the post Inequality – Part 1, which signaled a Part 2, at least. I also dropped a footnote about an upcoming post about how we can’t stay focused on anything for long enough to do anything about anything.

Ten weeks have passed. I didn’t get to Part 2 until now, and I certainly haven’t stayed focused on the issue. Yes, much has happened since 2/22. Some of it is spine-tinglingly scary, like the notion that something could trigger a ground war in Europe a la WWI and WWII. And some of it is just nonsense, like the craziness in Nevada and the

100 posts! A milestone, although not every post has been substantive and I started this blog with some pieces I’d already written and posted elsewhere. Alas, we won’t be too precise!

I don’t know whether you all enjoy my blog or not, but for the few of you who post comments, send me emails, or catch me here or there. I can tell you a few things, though:

First, no one who has “liked” my blog’s Facebook page has “unliked” it. You may be ignoring me, but you haven’t taken affirmative steps—at least not steps I know about—to get rid of me.

Second, readership seems to be up, if Google analytics are accurate and I’m reading them right. Two big

I’ve been thinking a bit about numbers lately. Big numbers and they grow. It should be no surprise to you that I have some thoughts!

Occasionally I’ll here a reporter reading a story who uses millions for billions, or billions for trillions. I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard a larger number where a smaller one was correct; only the other way around.

We live in a world whose scale we cannot always appreciate. More than seven billion people are alive today, and more than 317 million of us live in the United States of America.

The Obama Administration’s 2014FY budget, for October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014, asks for spending of $3.77 trillion, and expects income of $3.03 trillion.

The man is everywhere … if that means Fox News and, ever so occasionally, other cable news outlets. If you’re even a minor political junkie, you can’t miss Cliven Bundy.

Mr. Bundy is a cattle rancher. His cows chew on federal grass, drink federal water, and cr*p all over federal land. (At least I think all of these facts are true. I’m a city slicker—and a pretty slick one at that, if I do say so myself—so I know from cows that their milk comes in a plastic container and their flesh is wrapped in paper or cellophane and Styrofoam. Maybe owners whose cattle graze on federal land provide their own water.)

What Mr. Bundy doesn’t do is pay for