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Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:12:43 -0700

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:22:21 -0700

From the page: "Is that now the neocon position? I thought the real position was: we've won, so we have to stay for ever. My own position is: we have a window to leave; why on earth would we not leap at the chance?"

Joe Biden Says the President Apologized to Him, for Bidens Gaffes - Joe Biden - Gawker

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:53:59 -0700

hahaha

Gracye Cheng: A Lesson in Civics

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:21:19 -0700

From the page: "My chief worry is that an elected official could sit in office with the idea that he need not truly listen to the views of his constituents and that he can, in fact, belittle them. Unfortunately, the truth is that Representative Miller, the incumbent Republican in a solidly Republican district, actually can: he has had little or no opposition for the last four elections. And unless a solution is found for an elections system that favors incumbents to the point of impunity, and thus promotes a sense of indifference to new views and voices, Representative Miller is right in thinking that he doesn't need to respect his constituents."

Sean Hannity Has No Excuse Not to Get Waterboarded - Media - Gawker

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:39:01 -0700

From the page: "And in an admirable bit of public service, Keith Olbermann has pledged to give $1,000 for every second that Fox manimal Sean Hannity has himself waterboarded, as he said he would do. Sean?"

Barack Obamas First 94 Days: A Look Back - Inside the hundred days of missing you - Gawker

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:37:50 -0700

From the page: "So here is what Barack Obama has done with his first hundred days:

* Stimulus
* Puppy

Now let's move on to documenting his first YEAR!"

Wonkette : White House Press Corps MUST KNOW The Facts: Does Robert Gibbs Love Them?

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:27:17 -0700

From the page: " A Politico reporter asked Gibbs the same question moments later. The press corps �oeabsolutely deserves an A,” he said. �oeYou guys ask good questions every single day.”

Gold star! And Howard Kurtz� next sentence in this write-up is, �oeThis raises several distinct possibilities…” NO, there are no possibilities being raised about anything! NO ANALYSIS NECESSARY, c�mon."

Andrea Chalupa: Sexy Job of the Future: the Almighty Fact-Checker

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:45:40 -0700

From the page: "Future news: Not only does some great new news site have pithy writers who put the big stories of the day into snark-filled context that represents the political side that you believe in, but it has fact-checkers: two recent college grads from Harvard, who did nothing but read big thick books all through college, checking stories to make sure the facts are in their purest form. It's not only genius marketing but material for the next Devil Wears Prada."

Adam Hanft: Maureen Dowd, Please Stop Now. Twitter is Not Just For the Banal Retentive

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:43:44 -0700

From the page: "In fact, despite her control of the final interview presentation, and her ability to set Twitter's founders to sea in her Ark of Snark, the 140-character nano-blogging service emerges better than Dowd does.

The truth is, like any palimpsest awaiting a scribe, Twitter's value depends on those who choose to play. And those whom you choose to follow.

Disclaimer: I Twitter -- "hanft" is my hugely clever and obfuscatory user name -- and those few loyalists who follow me hopefully are rewarded with more plangency than "Subway late again. Ugh."

Twitter can be, and is, whatever we make it. As William Gibson famously said, "The street finds its own use for things.""

Tom Alderman: The Internet Is Absolute Democracy -- Be Very Afraid!

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:42:57 -0700

i agree with the conclusion, not necessarily the entire article.

From the page: "Critical thinking is currently not a priority in our education system even though it's the first line of defense and growth for any open society. It's the ability to seek the difference between causal and correlative facts. For instance, ice-cream consumption rises as the crime rate goes up in Chicago. Quite True. But is crime the cause of increased ice-cream sales, or do crime and ice-cream both rise only because it's summertime in Chicago? Got to know the difference to survive and thrive.

Critical thinking taught in our schools would make Thomas Jefferson very happy -- an informed public making knowledgeable choices no matter how unfiltered the flow of limitless information. It certainly helps next time you hear Obama is a Muslim, you get AIDS from shaking hands, or someone has weapons of mass destruction. "