Here’s where we are after last night’s debate: Rick Perry is the front-runner, even though he couldn’t answer a question to save his life. All of his answers had something to do with how awesome Texas is, even if the questions were about how Texas is last in the nation on high school graduates. He […]
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Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn*
As Texas is beset by droughts and wildfires, Salon notes that Rick Perry has been begging for federal funds. Of course Rick Perry doesn’t want to see Texas burn, so it is rational of him to ignore his rhetorical distaste for the federal government and demand that it help. And Texas could use the help, […]
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Horrible Thing Replaces Horrible Thing
Is Facebook killing high school reunions? Who cares! I mean, it could be: “People have told me that now that they are on Facebook, they don’t feel the need to go to the reunion,” Sullivan said. While Facebook and other social networks have been a godsend in helping reunion organizers [track] down classmates who have […]
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Ron Paul Attacks Rick Perry
This is a smart ad from the Ron Paul people: It ties Ron Paul squarely to Ronald Reagan and it hits Rick Perry where it hurts most in a Republican primary: It trumpets the fact that he backed Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 1988. One weird misstep: Note the punching of the words “the one” […]
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A Rare Opportunity to Watch the Unfettered Market in Action
In case you haven’t heard: The United States Postal Service could shut down this winter. Now for those of you who drag out the usual comments about the USPS being outdated and long past its usefulness, I have a favor to ask of you. If the USPS does shut down, and if major services do […]
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Congressman Joe Walsh Not Doing His Job
Racist bag of shit Teabagger Congressman Joe Walsh can’t be bothered to do his job. He’s refusing to listen to President Obama’s jobs speech and is hosting his own jobs summit on the same night: “I don’t see the point of being a prop for another of the president’s speeches asking for more failed stimulus […]
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Microsoft Sued for Collecting Data Even After Users Tell Microsoft to Stop Collecting Data
TechCrunch just found a doozy of a lawsuit: A recent class action lawsuit filed in Seattle district court alleges that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system collects users’ location data, even after offering users the chance to opt out…The offending bit of code rests in Windows Phone 7′s camera application. When fired up for the […]
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Donald Trump Thinks Dick Cheney Isn’t Very Classy
I hope this is the first in a series of Donald Trump video reviews of books he doesn’t plan to read. Maybe he’ll do Fight Club next: I can’t believe that there is a statistically significant number of human beings who believe this guy should be president.
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T-Mobile CEO to Employees: Don’t Worry, We’ll Shove This Thing Through Somehow
This Is My Next has text of T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm’s internal e-mail to his employees about the news that the Justice Department is blocking the AT&T merger: DT and AT&T believe the DOJ has failed to acknowledge the significant consumer benefits of this deal. DT remains convinced that bringing together these two world-class businesses […]
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Books without Borders
My Life at the World’s Dumbest Bookstore Chain
How Borders went from ohh-kay to a disastrous, not ohh-kay failure.
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This Is a Metaphor for Something: Christine O’Donnell Book Reading Draws Five People
News-Press.com, via Wonkette. Not even tea party favorite Christine O’Donnell could draw a large crowd for her book signing Wednesday in staunchly Republican Naples, Florida during August, a month when there are few tourists and many locals are on vacation. Still, O’Donnell took the turnout of five people — members of the media outnumbered customers […]
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With Jesus’s Help, Michele Bachmann Will Go All the Way to the Wet House
Though it sounds like Michele Bachmann begins this video by saying “who likes white people?” she’s really saying “who likes wet people?” That was never the most shocking part of this video, though. I think the most shocking part of this video comes after the wet-people greeting, when she sets aside politics and testifies for […]