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Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...
Category Archives: internet
Newt Gingrich Rageface
The photo on the left is from Charles Ommanney of Newsweek. It makes Newt look like a ragecomic, the memetastic drawings that populate websites like Reddit and 4Chan. Users make ragecomics with a set of template characters, of which Mega … Continue reading
This Is Not A Drill
IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE INTERNET Osborne Ink went dark for twelve hours today along with an estimated 7,000 other websites, including WikiPedia, Reddit, and Wired. This is to show you what the internet may look like if the United States … Continue reading
Cops Scared Witless by Internet Meme
For those of you just joining us, Pedobear began life as an internet meme — a Japanime character used to flag illegal pornographic content on 4chan. Someone in New Mexico is immune to irony, however, because they’re telling parents to … Continue reading
Netroots Failure
I caught this at Reuters last week. It’s an analysis of the likely outcome of the FCC’s net neutrality decision this week: “There aren’t really any better options for Copps and Clyburn than to support the chairman, despite their preference … Continue reading
Geeks Shall Rule The World
The Guardian is the only newspaper to which I would actually subscribe anymore. This article on how WikiLeaks supporters have engaged in DDOS attacks (Distributed Denial Of Service) finds the pulse of the issue: A 22-year-old spokesman, who wished to … Continue reading
L’Affaire Assange
Unknown hackers are busy attacking various websites today in response to the U.S. pressure tactics on WikiLeaks; I expected as much. Without a sanction, corporations are more than willing to help the advance of fascism in America. If WikiLeaks is … Continue reading
Gibson’s Law Strikes Again
The first thing down the memory-hole is the existence of a memory-hole. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy — the man in charge of Australian internet censorship — has been caught censoring his own government site with a script that removes references … Continue reading
Internet Nominated for Nobel Prize
I’m not making this up.
The Emperor’s New Map
The AP has stirred my inner map geek at exactly the right time. A million-dollar map is on rare public display: The map created by Matteo Ricci was the first in Chinese to show the Americas. Ricci, a Jesuit missionary … Continue reading
Google Image Results
A couple of months ago I posted Washington Times: NSF is NSFW, a takedown of the Rev. Moon’s publication for a lame attempt to whip up nontroversy. The post keeps appearing in my daily stats, almost always from referrals by … Continue reading
Yes, News Corp, Go Behind That Paywall
It’s the best idea I’ve heard in ages: Rupert Murdoch wants to de-index from Google (which is less complicated than it sounds; you just insert a tiny string of HTML code) and go behind a paywall so that we rubes … Continue reading
