Oh dear. Map Of The Day

FloatingSheep, a fun geography blog, looks at the beer belly of America. One maps shows total number of bars, but the interesting map is the one above. Red dots represent locations where there are more bars than grocery stores, based on results from the Google Maps API. The Midwest takes their drinking seriously.

Wisconsin is pretty much completely red. When I was a kid, there were about 21 bars in my home town and I think three grocery stores.

I'm not sure what criteria they're using to put what where, but everyone else on that list is geographical, so I thought it odd that you called them out as being treated differently, is all.

eta: They are also rolled into other groups in different tables.

I'm going to ask my annual question: Why the fuck aren't they tapping Kelsey Grammer to host the fucking Oscars?

I know he hasn't had a show in a while. I know he's had personal issues. But he's funny, he can sing and dance and he's got a velvety-smooth voice, dammit. I think he'd doe an awesome job.

chocolate cake:

The Employment Equity Act defines visible minorities as 'persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.'

Okay--that makes more and less sense. I mean, they must have their reasons for calling them out specifically. I guess they're covered in other numbers.

I'm not sure what criteria they're using to put what where, but everyone else on that list is geographical, so I thought it odd that you called them out as being treated differently, is all.

That's what I thought was weird, that "Jewish" was stuck in the middle of a list that was otherwise geographical. I get the reasoning behind it, but there are also a bunch of reasons why it doesn't make much sense, and I haven't seen that on any official US stuff since probably 1950, maybe earlier.

I'm guessing there's a lot of politics in that definition.

There is a seperate aboriginal population profile: [link]

Steph, I need to add that to my Netflix queue. I've seen good reviews.

It was good, except the voice actors not being the ones from the series kind of threw me off. Also, Batman did 2 things that I considered to be too morally ambiguous even for him. I'm still mulling those over.

But on the whole, it's pretty good.

Sue, are there ticky boxes, or is it self reported? I note a number of people in Montreal report their ethnicity as Québécois.

Okay--that makes more and less sense. I mean, they must have their reasons for calling them out specifically.

Aboriginal status carries a lot more legal implications in Canada than in the US, so I'm not surprised it's separated out.

I note a number of people in Montreal report their ethnicity as Québécois.

How are you distinguishing between ticky boxes and self-reported (I've never been censed--I know not of how they work). I would imagine a number of but not all Montrealers would report as Quebecois.

Batman did 2 things that I considered to be too morally ambiguous even for him. I'm still mulling those over.

Too morally ambiguous for Batman? In an animated feature? Now I need to bump it up to the top of the queue. Very curious.

Aboriginal status carries a lot more legal implications in Canada than in the US, so I'm not surprised it's separated out.

But you can count them as well as count them as a visible minority, hence my surprise.