August 2012
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“It’s not everyone’s inalienable right to get whatever they want. We are charged...”
– That’s the guy at NBC who’s more or less behind the decision to show you your Olympics sports on a multi-hour tape delay. You see, world? Your Olympics are a “product,” and watching them aren’t your inalienable right, per your friends at NBC.
Tone deaf. And it’s not like we have any other way to...
“Saying he had ‘no problem with somebody being really, really wealthy,’ Reid sat...”
– The Huffington Post reports on a particularly damning accusation about Mitt Romney from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (via mattwilstein)
“For 4 years, Koreans enacted increasingly stiff real-name commenting laws, first...”
– Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments | TechCrunch (via onthemedia)
July 2012
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Crossroads - Radiolab →
In this short, we go looking for the devil, and find ourselves tangled in a web of details surrounding one of the most haunting figures in music—a legendary guitarist whose shadowy life spawned a legend so powerful, it’s still being repeated…even by fans who don’t believe a word of it.
This is so amazing. Find 20 minutes to just sit back and listen to it.
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Republicans aren't just occasionally taking Obama... →
As we discussed last week, at this point in the race, Republicans aren’t just occasionally taking Obama quotes out of context; they’re actually building their entire 2012 campaign strategy around sentiments the president didn’t actually say. I’ve honestly never seen anything like it.
Let’s start a running count:
1. The Romney campaign took Obama out of context...
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“When Bill Moyers, Keith Olbermann, Mayor Bloomberg, and Rupert Murdoch are all...”
– John Cassidy gives ten reasons America might be crazy (via newyorker)
