April 2012
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How arguments on television news might as well go
Host: That's what you think.
Pundit: That's what I know!
Host: That's what you think you know.
Pundit: That's what YOU think I think I know.
Host: That's what I KNOW you think you know!
Pundit: I know you THINK that's what you know...
Host: I KNOW that I KNOW th...
Pundit: YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I KNOW!!!
March 2012
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The Trunk: The Democratic Party Health Insurance... →
taniabunke:
jeffmiller:
I’ve asked this before, but no one has ever answered it. It’s a question for the millions of progressives in this country who support the ACA.
Right now, progressives could all form a giant collective. You could call it the Democratic Party Health Insurance Coop. Everyone would join by contract….
Because we live in a Democracy, and that’s not how things work in a...
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Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) expected to be indicted on... →
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Who Makes Money from Campaign Spending? →
futurejournalismproject:
ProPublica turns campaign spending on its head a bit with an interactive that lets Users track who’s making money off it. So, instead of looking at who’s donating to campaigns and Super PACs, they look at the top 200 recipients of campaign largesse.
Topping the list, Mentzer Media Services. The former Swift Boat Veterans for Truth video producers have raked in a cool...
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Deficit reduction really, really, really unpopular... →
mohandasgandhi:
“You want us to go through 2,700 pages?”
— Justice Antonin Scalia, on cutting up the health care reform law. (via theatlantic)
Yo, Scalia, I read both versions of the bill before the final version was passed and it wasn’t even my job to do so. It’s not that difficult.
If Scalia, or anyone else, has a better idea for how the court can do its...
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“I am very proud of my nerd-dom. In fact, the world needs more nerds. Nerds, you...”
– Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told ABC News on Monday. (HuffPo)
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“So I cannot, for the life of me, understand why so many white men like me can be...”
– Barry Nolan
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Men: Read this and step up. →
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Pro tip on healthcare reform: Don’t say or write that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. That is the issue in front of the Court at this very moment. Something is only unconstitutional after the Court says that it is, and that same thing is completely and utterly constitutional up until then. If you think the Court will find the law unconstitutional, or if you think the Court...
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Tumblr's newest terms of service might prohibit...
producermatthew:
From Tumblr’s newest terms of service policy, rolled out today:
Limitations on Automated Use: You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the Services:
…
(c) access or search or attempt to access or search the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available, published interfaces that are provided by Tumblr (and only...
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Trayvon Martin Could Have Been One of My Kids →
I don’t think my sons are safe anywhere, and I often feel extreme anxiety over what might happen to them when they walk out the door each morning. But my boys don’t believe they can be gunned down like Trayvon. “I don’t think anything like this would happen to us because of the place we live,” my 8-year-old told me last night after watching updates about the investigation on the...
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The Trayvon Martin Killing, Explained →
motherjones:
Get up to speed. Get updates. Get angry.
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The New Yorker: What’s Behind the Conservative... →
The real attraction of the birth-control issue was that it could be used to bash Obamacare. It’s not proving to be a very effective weapon, however. When birth control is uncoupled from the religious-freedom argument—and when conservatives start talking in ugly ad-hominem language, like Limbaugh’s, or clueless anachronistic language, like Santorum’s—women, in particular, do not respond well....
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"I'm not trying to troll but..."
“my affairs and rank history of abandonment and warmongering and radically discriminatory platforms make me an authority on family values.”
US staff sergeant kills 16 Afghan civilians, US... →
Signal-boosting for everyone who missed this disgusting piece of news over the weekend.
US staff sergeant kills 16 Afghan civilians, US... →
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“In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, the childlike and excitable protagonist...”
– Liz Goodwin on Mitt Romney
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“Shepard Fairey is an idiot. All he had to do was claim Fair Use and he would...”
– An actual artist’s opinion of Shepard Fairley, a.k.a. that guy who made the Obama hope image and now faces prison time for the legal spat that followed.
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anticapitalist:
Women’s Impact On The Economy, By the Numbers
Today is International Women’s Day, which this year is coinciding with a lot of debate on the subject of women’s rights, specifically regarding abortion, contraception and reproductive health. But it’s worth pausing for a moment to also consider the enormous contributions women are making vis-a-vis the global economy.
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National Journal: “So far, according to exit polls posted on CNN.com, whites have cast at least 90 percent of the votes in every Republican primary except Florida (83 percent) and Arizona (89 percent). In every other state except Michigan (92 percent) and Nevada (90 percent) whites have comprised at least 94 percent of the GOP vote this year. That includes Georgia (94), Virginia (94), Ohio...
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“All pollution and all waste is lost profit. It’s stuff companies pay for...”
– Bill Coors, as quoted here. It’s relevant to something I’m working on these days.
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“The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do” is the title of Fiona Apple’s new album.
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I guess I can take a break for the next couple of hours while the rest of the media obsessively liveblogs the Apple thing.
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Republicans for Obama →
Look what I found.
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free market speech
karion:
In the coming week(s), in light of the latest Rush Limbaugh cry for relevancy (his “slut” stunt), I suspect we are going to hear a shit ton about how liberals don’t like free speech when they disagree with the content. Because advertiser after advertiser has pulled out, and the Republican candidates are distancing themselves, Rush (like Dr. Laura and Sarah Palin before him) is going to...
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Schumer: Senate Dems may move to end Bush-era tax... →
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The only reaction to this terrible op-ed that’s worth reading is this comment.
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Cato Senior Fellow: Koch Brothers Want To Take... →
Romney: Hoping for a 'reset' among voters after...
yahoopolitics:
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior Romney adviser, dismissed concerns the primary process could prove to be too damaging for his boss.
“When this primary is over and people have had their heads knocked in by one another, that’s just the nature of a hard fought campaign,” he said. “We hit the reset button and the campaign begins anew with a different...
Your Five-Minute Primer to Tomorrow’s Totally... →
“Society changes when we change what we’re embarrassed about. In just fifty...”
– Seth Godin (via azspot)
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“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by...”
– Dr. Seuss, who was born on this day in 1904, on becoming a writer.
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Even after backlash, banks quietly pursuing fees →
Nothing in banking is free anymore. All of the largest banks in the United States offered free checking with no strings attached until 2009, and almost none do today, says Mike Moebs, the founder of Moebs Services, a financial research company.
And what wasn’t free before costs a lot more these days: Moebs’ research shows that cashiers’ checks that used to cost $3 now cost as...
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“The vote to extend the Bush tax cuts in their entirety would, in essence, be the...”
– Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)
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The cost of not controlling health-care costs
wonklife:
RAND Health researchers combined data from multiple sources to depict the effects of rising health care costs on a median-income married couple with two children covered by employer-sponsored insurance. The analysis compared the family’s health care cost burden in 1999 with that incurred in 2009. The take-away message: Although family income grew throughout the decade, the financial...
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Bank of America Considers Fee Revamp That Would... →
It’s as if they want their customers to use credit unions instead.
