February 2012
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“In a conference call that started at 9:45 a.m Friday morning, White House senior...”
– Obama Birth Control Compromise In Works
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“A number of sources have reported that the Iranian government has cut off access...”
– Iran reportedly blocking encrypted internet access on eve of Islamic revolution | The Verge
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“First, there were Freedom Fries. So, of course, it makes sense that someone...”
– Gulf of Mexico? Try ‘Gulf of America’
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One day in the future, you will look back and...
I am truly a pioneer of work avoidance.
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WatchJohn Kasich Parkinson’s Imitation Marks Ad Hoc Speech That Veered Off The Rails
Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) does not generally script his speeches, preferring to form his remarks off-the-cuff based on notes. In the case of his State of the State address on Tuesday, that approach appears to have come back to bite the first-term chief executive, as he issued a rambling 100-minute speech that...
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“WHEN we don’t get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don’t blame...”
– The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries (via lawsonry)
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“Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill said that increasing teacher pay is against...”
– Shadrack McGill, Alabama State Senator, Says Keeping Teacher Pay Low ‘A Biblical Principle’
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“In a stunning break with First Amendment policy on Capitol Hill, House...”
– ‘Gasland’ Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order Of House Republicans
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January 2012
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I went outside 270 today for the first time in...
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Listening to No Age at 6am will put you in a weird...
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Currently:
Beers [leftover Breckenridge Christmas Ale] and some quality time with this Heems mixtape [Nehru Jackets].
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“Newt was mad. He said, ‘I am not a philanderer, I am a blowjob...”
– Bill Maher
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Report: Homeland Security watches Twitter, social...
newsweek:
think-progress:
We’re wondering if they’re on Tumblr?
These include social networking sites Facebook and My Space - though there is a parenthetical notice that My Space only affords a “limited search” capability - and more than a dozen sites that monitor, aggregate and enable searches of Twitter messages and exchanges.
News and gossip sites on the monitoring list include popular...
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I posted that thing about Fan Mail, and two...
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“The reason 2012 feels so empty now is that voters on both sides of the aisle are...”
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Matt Taibbi
Continued from the same post:
This widespread and growing movement against the twin corrupting influences of money on our politics and state patronage on big business is going on everywhere – on the streets, in these courthouses, in the homes of people refusing to move after...
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I think this sums up the problem with American...
joshuatopolsky:
David Carr, writing about SOPA:
Maplight, a site that researches the influence of money in politics, reported that the 32 sponsors of the legislation received four times as much in contributions from the entertainment industry as they did from software and Internet companies.
Good to be reminded that most of our politicians are nothing more than puppets for private companies...
December 2011
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Is it possible to spend less than 40 minutes...
Because I seriously don’t know.
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