May 2013
“We were very close to war with Pakistan, which easily could have turned into a...”
– Noam Chomsky - The Raw Story
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Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1B,... →
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seldo:
I for one welcome our new Yahoo overlords.
The most concrete confirmation of what’s about to happen yet: “Sources said that the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s CEO Marissa Mayer has decided that buying Tumblr was going to be ‘the stake in the ground of what her strategy is going forward for Yahoo.’”
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama... →
It wasn’t the substance of the AP story that has exasperated the government, but that the AP found a source or sources that spilled information about an ongoing intelligence operation and that even grander leaks might surge into the press corpsâ rain barrels.
This CBS Evening News segment on the collapse of... →
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“So the scandal—the real scandal—is that 501(c)(4) groups have been engaged in...”
– Jeffrey Toobin, The Real I.R.S. Scandal - The New Yorker
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WaPo's Ezra Klein: The scandals are falling apart →
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justinspoliticalcorner:
[the entire article]
H/T: Ezra Klein at Washington Post
We shouldn’t publish full articles unless we have to (say, if the article gets taken down). A couple of key paragraphs is fine. People can click to read the rest. And the folks that don’t want to will just miss out.
You like Ezra Klein as a writer? Don’t take away his traffic. I don’t mean to...
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“The most significant differences between those who smoked marijuana and those...”
– The Atlantic’s Lindsay Abrams, reporting on the results of a recent study on the health effects of marijuana. In addition, regular pot smokers were skinnier than those who abstained, “even after adjusting for factors like age, sex, tobacco and alcohol use, and physical activity levels,” and had...
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“[A]nyone using social media sites — and especially Twitter — ‘has lost...”
– Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police has warned citizens against using Twitter.
Read: NPR
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“The note — scrawled with a marker on the interior wall of the cabin...”
– Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left note in boat he hid in, sources say - CBS News
4,127 people have been killed by guns since...
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And that number is growing rapidly. Just yesterday afternoon, the number was 4,099.
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Not Hot Enough for Breitbart →
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Boy genius Ben Shapiro takes to Breitbart.com to complain that Maxim’s list of hot women includes two women that he doesn’t think are very hot. One of them — Hoda Kotb — is old, for crying out loud! The only reason women like Kotb would find herself on the list is that she’s a liberal and, of course, Maxim is well-known for only celebrating the hotness of liberals; it’s one of the...
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Spying on The Associated Press →
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Priorities: Nightly News Covered The Royal Family...
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mediamattersforamerica:
This is not okay.
But princes and baby princes are more exciting than the Earth revolting against human achievement!
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“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.”
– A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner (via onlytheilluminatisurvive)
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“So here is what works. Retweet the hater’s tweet, appending the phrase “I love...”
– Dear Twitter Haters: I, Eli Lake, Love Your Passion - The Daily Beast
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Reporter: IRS Pressured Me After I Asked Obama... →
KMOV’s Larry Conners says “the IRS has been pressuring me” since his April, 2012 interview with the president. “Can I prove it? At this time, no.”
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All together, roughly one-third of House... →
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“It’s actually remarkable how, in a city and an industry full of very powerful...”
– Good riddance, Barbara Walters - Salon.com
“And finally, the bromance quote of the night, courtesy of Stewart: “I know...”
– Jon Stewart almost quit Daily Show over “asshole” coworkers
“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the...”
– Associated Press President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt • In a letter, sent to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, denouncing the Justice Department’s decision to acquire the phone records of AP journalists as well as a number of the wire service’s offices over a two-month period. The move...
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“The Shias are more dangerous than naked [women],” MP Tharwat Attallah of...”
– Members of the culture committee of Egypt’s Shura Council discussed their concerns on Monday about the possibility of Iranian tourism to Egypt, with some expressing fears that it could spread Shiism in the country. - Ahram Online
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“The research arm of dating site OKCupid looked at 500,000 first contacts and...”
– Apostrophe now: Bad grammar and the people who hate it Read: BBC News
“If the case makes its way to the Supreme Court, and all five members of the...”
– The Supreme Court Is About to Get Another Chance to Gut Obamacare by Simon Lazarus (via thenewrepublic)
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“Republicans think by a 74/19 margin that Benghazi is a worse political scandal...”
– Public Policy Polling
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Why Did Jodon Romero Kill Himself On Live... →
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“I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable...”
– Letter from California: Jumpers : The New Yorker
Why Do I Fail When I Try To Recall How the... →
