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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: Print is Dead
MSM Misses MERS Mortgage Mess
Remember just yesterday we were talking about Americans fighting foreclosure — and winning — because the banks were so sloppy with vital paperwork? Both Matt Taibbi and Barry Ritzholtz are on a major new related story this morning, and once … Continue reading
Print is Dead: IKEA Catalog Edition
Yuppie furniture giant IKEA has caused quite a dust-storm among typography fans by changing its catalog from Futura to Verdana. But the paragraph that got me was at the bottom of page one: Ikea explained that it was abandoning its … Continue reading
Democracy Without Newspapers
One of the most over-used tags on my blog is “Print is Dead.” As I’ve explained before, I don’t think printing presses will go out of fashion; rather, the business model of print is no longer viable. Ad revenue is … Continue reading
Print is Dead: NYTimes.com Edition
I’m going to indulge in a prediction: the New York Times will try again to enclose its website behind pay-per-view walls, and will fail. Again. From Bloomberg: New York Times said in a survey of print subscribers this month that … Continue reading
The Hyperlink Age and Big Media
I’ve been posting lately on the failures of Big Media and their consequent resentment and jealousy of new media. Not only does this lead the MSM to manufacture controversy, it enables the right wing media machine to stovepipe their insanity. … Continue reading
Sunday Sermon: Meet The Press
Last week saw a flurry of triumphal denunciations of Obama for “controlling” the questions at his health care town hall meeting. Tellingly, the attacks began before the town hall began. CBS News’ Chip Reid and Hearst News’ Helen Thomas tore … Continue reading
Print is Dead: Linking Edition
Richard Posner advocates an incredibly stupid idea: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, might be necessary to … Continue reading
Anatomy of a Nontroversy
First, the video; in which Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney asks Obama a rather tough question at the press conference today: Politico’s Ben Smith posted the following paragraph on his blog after the presser: The high-profile the administration is giving the … Continue reading
Twitter Revolution
News is now a collective process: It’s nice to see someone in the MSM acknowledging that the game has changed instead of complaining that bloggers are ‘killing’ the news. As I’ve said many times, the news biz is killing itself. … Continue reading
What Happened to Newspapers?
Print is dead. Long live the internet! I’ve watched with dismay as my hometown paper has let good journalists go, outsourced its prepress department, trimmed the size to near-tabloid dimensions, and hired newly-minted journalism majors (not graduates, mind you) at … Continue reading
Tucker Carlson Going Online
Via Jamie at IntoxiNation, we learn that Tucker Carlson now wants to be the new Arianna Huffington. Carlson will launch TheDailyCaller.com, which he said would focus on reporting on the Obama administration and “adding facts to the conversation.” [...] Carlson, … Continue reading
