This comes from Shakesville and Melissa McEwan, who has commented that this is what the Democratic presidential candidates should be doing right now. I can't say I disagree with her.
I adore the way she had to make Obama's head twice as large as the others so that it would actually fit on Randy's body.
They have a great post about the way in which houses in the US have been continual growing in size over the last seventy years or so that takes off from an NPR article. These are statistics that I keep hearing, but I would be really interested in more information about the specifics of the trends. If we are going back to the thirties to compare, we are talking about a time period where there were still large blocks of people crammed into horrible tenements in many major cities.
I know the smart comment is "aren't there still", but you know what I mean. Most of NYC does not look like one of my favorite pictures from India:
Of course, most of India doesn't either and I have no wish to imply that it does (I just saw an excuse to post it), just that even things like fewer of those arrangements and the quickly growing trend towards people living alone rather than in family groups can make a very large difference when one starts throwing statistics around without being assured of the methods by which they were gathered.
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