Introduced with the usual soporific prepositional phrase, NYT article illustrated with astonishingly dumb graphic

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  1. Hengngh, the one I clipboarded out of a PDF of the front page didn't make it past the IntenseDebate size police, and it's not on the Web version of the article. Here it is:

    <img src="http://i67.tinypic.com/vsnmfp.png"&gt;
    Circular areas indicating linear quantities? Ridiculous qualifiers to make the data show what you want them to show? Kid stuff, NYT.

    This is how you do chartjunk:
    <img src="http://americanmoocher.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/military-spending.png"&gt;

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