No bananas, giving thanks.

I buy banans from this stand. The guy who sells is of dark skin, from India or from the islands. Not sure if he owns the stand. Sells everyday of the week. At all hours. Went to buy bananas today, Thanksgiving day. For my mother.  He was not there. Spending the day with the family. A good holiday. Whatever his other gods and altars, this immigrant peddler understood the spirit of this American day.

99%

I was about fourteen and good at math. My mother, a psychologist, was using me to do all the stats for for her research papers as statistics had penetrated the social sciences.  Since then the doctoral hierarchy in humanities has shifted towards those good at numbers. Statistics provide these arts a scientific gloss. And penetrated the popular culture. Now most people describe social and human  situations and conditions in terms of percentages or other simplified statistical terms. The deeper understanding gets lost. Due to misunderstanding or manipulation, even the simpler explanations associated with the statistics are more often wrong. Less than 50% right!   SEMIDOCTS

OWS! welcome to NY politics.

Occupy Wall Street was so busy dealing with the problem of protecting their tents and encampment at Zucotti that they forgot developing a mission, a working idea. Of course, politics in New York City are always  about  real estate.