May 2013
1 post
April 2013
8 posts
copy/pasted ramblings
There is a spectrum of issues that need to be addressed by our political system. But we can’t count on any of them to be addressed meaningfully in any one lifetime. Some issues are addressed meaningfully, but not always the ones you’d expect, not usually when you’d expect, and not always the most important.
Change in our system is excruciatingly incremental —...
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Ex-CNN Reporter: I Received Orders to Manipulate... →
progressivefriends:
PRAGUE, (SANA)- Ex-CNN reporter Amber Lyon revealed that during her work for the channel she received orders to send false news and exclude some others which the US administration did not favor with the aim to create a public opinion in favor of launching an aggression on Iran and Syria.
FYI, that “news organization” you’re quoting is the Syrian...
March 2013
19 posts
11 Wikipedia Lists →
nevver:
List of Fictional Ducks
List of People Who Have Been Pied
List of Premature Obituaries
List of Fictional Drinking Establishments
List of Sports
List of TV Spin-Offs
List of Films Considered the Worst
List of Sesame Street Muppets
List of Fictional Universes in Film and TV
List of Planets in Science Fiction
List of Cryptidsmore
February 2013
22 posts
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ALL 67 FLORIDA COUNTY SHERIFFS SIGN PLEDGE TO... →
nocommiesnosocsnodems:
conservativebrew:
Constitutional Sheriffs sent an email stating, “I have added the names of the following 61 Florida County Sheriffs [who] joined the previous six Florida County Sheriffs to announce that they will not enforce laws that violate the Constitution or infringe on the rights of the people to own firearms.”
This means all of Florida’s county sheriffs have now...
Is the queue broken for anyone else?
thenoobyorker:
Unpopular opinion on tumblr: Brutalism sucks.
what, you don’t want to be surrounded by the lairs of comic book villians?
Short List of Male Celebrities that beat and/or...
stfuhypocrisy:
scifigamingmom:
Charlie Sheen
Sean Connery
Gary Oldman
David Hasselhoff
Mel Gibson
Michael Fassbender
Nicholas Cage
Gary Busey
Bill Murray
Eminem
Alec Baldwin
Phil Hartman
Tommy Lee
Josh Brolin
Sean Penn
Woody Allen
Roman Polanski
Axl Rose
Sonny Bono
John Lennon
Sean Bean
Elvis Presley
Kelsey Grammar
Rob Lowe
Chris Brown
Who Tumblr/Internet/Society cares...
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Obama Calls For Minimum Wage Hike →
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HuffPost Politics: SOTU Live Blog →
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“What you need is some editorial skill in your self-expression! Between impulse and action there is a REALM of good taste begging for your acquaintance.”
-the doctor, star trek: voyager, s4e25
“We in the newsroom should have no illusions. Our entire purpose is to fill the...”
– Theodore Daws in The Fall of Journalism, American Thinker.
Dawes, a long-time journalist, criticizes idealism and naivete in young journalists (in other words: those who think the industry is something other than a business that needs to make money), as well as j-school and false understandings of...
