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“How you like me now, FEC? I’m rolling seven digits deep! I got 99 problems...”
– Stephen Colbert said in a letter to the commission. The comedian disclosed Tuesday that his Americans for a Better Tomorrow “super” political action committee has raised a staggering $1.02 million. (AP)
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“I think it is the future of print.”
– Josh Martin, group director of media strategy at ID Media. - The Daily After One Year: Some Lessons Learned, Josh Sternberg, Digiday
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The story behind AP's Brewer-Obama photo. →
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Must Read: "To My Old Master" via Letters of Note →
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he...
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“When the president asked his top advisers for their final opinion on the...”
– VP Joe Biden: I advised against the bin Laden raid
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“I say, in the real world, in a healthy society, you’re not supposed to eat...”
– “Fear Factor” host Joe Rogan, - ‘Fear Factor’ donkey semen stunt pulled by NBC parent company Comcast: report - NY Daily News
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Japan's Population To Drop 30% By 2060 →
The estimate underscores how fast Japan’s population is shrinking, with the birthrate tumbling and society aging.
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herblondness asked: HOLY FUCK!!!!!! Time says you are a "Must-See" blog. Well, your loyal, long-term fans knew that, but kudos to you my dear friend!! xo
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Writing, clear and simple | Harvard Gazette →
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4 charged in B’klyn OWS melee →
FOUR OCCUPY Wall Street protesters have been charged with inciting a riot after clashing with police when they were tossed out of a vacant Brooklyn luxury building. One of the protesters pepper-sprayed an officer, police said.
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“Iran is in many ways a safer territory from which al Qaeda can operate. The...”
– Al Qaeda in Iran, Why Tehran is Accommodating the Terrorist Group - Foreign Affairs
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“Obvious question: If white hats are the good guys, why are they picking locks?
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– White-hat hackers huddle in D.C. - The Washington Post
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“Mr. Murdoch may not know much about computers, but he has an intuitive...”
– “80-yr-old wanders into Twitterdome … and acquits himself nicely.” - @carr2n’s (David Carr) column on @RupertMurdoch. - NYTimes
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Teens migrating to Twitter _ sometimes for... →
Teens don’t tweet, will never tweet - too public, too many older users. Not cool.
That’s been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.
But then their parents, grandparents, neighbors, parents’ friends and anyone in-between started friending them on Facebook, the social networking site of choice for...
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Comparing Obama and Reagan’s economic records -... →
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Saul Alinsky Wasn’t Who Newt Gingrich Thinks He... →
Of course, Alinsky’s intellectual influences were not limited to Catholic social thought. Contrary to Gingrich’s ignorant slur, he frequently quoted Jefferson and Madison and had contempt for young leftists in the 1960s who disdained the American flag. “The responsible organizer would have known,” he wrote in 1971, “that it is the establishment that has betrayed the flag while the flag, itself,...
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“Occupy Oakland has got to stop using Oakland as its playground.”
– Mayor Jean Quan said at a late evening press conference as officers in riot gear were still lined up against demonstrators in parts of downtown. - Reuters
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“This is somewhere between the top, the Nobel Prize, and the bottom, the...”
– Woody Allen on Directors Guild of America nomination for outstanding directorial achievement (@Variety_DMcNary)
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