2011 archive
Your Lyin’ Eyes 0
Radio Times takes a look at eye witness testimony. From the website:
Follow the link to listen or listen here (MP3).
WMPH 0
One of my kids hosted a show here.
The 42-year-old, 100-watt station has joined the school’s television station and music-recording studio to become part of the Broadcast Engineering and Communications Program.
Twits on Twitter 0
The newest things since patent trolls: twitter twolls.
Mitt the Flip the Bird to Veterans 0
The Republican Party: the party of “I’ve got mine.”
Cash for Confinement 0
Not just profiting from misery; creating misery for profit.
It Takes a Village 0
Those features may help lure buyers at a time when new homes are selling at a record slow pace and more Americans are living with extended families, said Megan McGrath, a homebuilding-industry analyst with MKM Partners LP in Stamford, Connecticut.
One of the things that broke people do is move in with each other.
QOTD 0
Abigail Adams, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Spill Here, Spill Now, Hope No One Notices 0
It’s always a “remote chance,” right up until it becomes “who could have predicted?”
Click for the rest.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Lila Garret interviews Robert Greenwald on Republican keep-out-the-vote efforts:
Facebook Frolics (Updated) 0
This is distinguished, of course, from pictures users post of themselves:
The pictures are reported to have shown up in users’ newsfeeds.
According to the technology site, ZDnet, the material is being spread via a “linkspam virus” which tempts members to click on a seemingly innocuous story link.
A spokeswoman for Facebook said: “[We are] aware of these reports and we are investigating the issue”.
Addendum:
Facebook is blaming a “browser vulnerability” (which browser or browsers are not specified in the article) and claims it was a target, malicious act, rather than random vandalism.
Pederasty U. 0
What John Cole said, especially the penultimate sentence of the middle paragraph.
Quality Construction at a Price That’s Right 0
Naming the ship after a Bush may have had more significant consequences than enshrining Republican idolatry of mediocrity.
QOTD 0
Elizabeth Gilbert, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
There’s no trouble in this world so serious that it can’t be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.
Follow the Money 0
At Asia Times, Juan Cole looks at the “Arab spring” in the light of economics, arguing forcefully that the economic causes of rebellions in North Africa and the Mediterranean rim have been under reported.
Here’s a bit:
(snip)
In the global South, countries that gained their independence from European colonialism after World War II tended to create large public sectors as part of the process of industrialization. Often, living standards improved as a result, but by the 1970s, such developing economies were generally experiencing a leveling-off of growth. This happened just as neo-liberalism became ascendant in Washington, Paris, and London . . . .
Egypt and Tunisia, to take two countries in the spotlight for sparking the Arab Spring, were successfully pressured in the 1990s to privatize their relatively large public sectors. Moving public resources into the private sector created an almost endless range of opportunities for staggering levels of corruption on the part of the ruling families of autocrats Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunis and Hosni Mubarak in Cairo. International banks, central banks, and emerging local private banks aided and abetted their agenda.
Not that we’ve seen any such corruption and opportunism on our own shores in the last 30 years.
Crashing credit default swaps, Batman, good heavens no.
Race-ing for the Republican Nod 0
Shaun Mullen dissects the Republican Party’s continuing allegiance to its odious “Southern strategy.”
It’s a must-read. (If you don’t have time to read it, the pictures tell the story.)
A nugget:
It wasn’t supposed to be this way, but when the Republican Party effectively abandoned its outreach to blacks and extended a beefy hand to Southern whites who once had reliably voted Democratic, the die was cast.