for the lexically imapired

More Book Blitz, another Link Barrage, and hopefully-coherent thoughts on (OMFG) Watchmen hopefully to follow tomorrow / this week. For now, though:

The good (I’m assuming) people at FlowingData.com (they do charts) have provided some assistance for us right-brainers struggling to make sense of this all this financial gobbledygook. To help us understand the nature and origins of the present fiscal crisis, they have provided over twenty-five handy-dandy hi-res illustrations, with some attendent words (or, in their parlance, “Visualizations and Infographics”). [HT: The Urbanophile]

That’s all well and good. But as far as our stimulus package is concerned, I’ve seen no better visual metaphor than this one:

[There was a video here, but the embed sucked. Balls.]