October 2011
3 tags
“The point being: we have a massive police force in America that outside of lower...”
– Mr. Taibbi, sometimes you can be a bit hyperbolic for our tastes. But in this case, you’re spot on.
OWS’s Beef: Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone (via ronmarks)
3 tags
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
“To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via soupsoup)
2 tags
“If you’d told me in January 2009 that the banks would pay us back the...”
– Andrew Sullivan
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
3 tags
1 tag
4 tags
3 tags
1 tag
3 tags
“Make a list… Call them and ask them, ‘Are you going to vote on Issue 2 and are...”
– Mike Huckabee
2 tags
6 tags
WatchDan Rather @ Occupy Wall Street
Says Rather:
We take a look at the current global citizen uprising. Who is behind the “Occupy Wall Street” gatherings in New York, Los Angeles and dozens of other cities across America; and what are they looking to achieve? We talk exclusively with Grim Womyn, one of those helping to lead the online effort of this growing movement.
Is this the same Grim Womyn...
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
lizlet:
Y’know, I like @Hulu a lot, but the tagline “Watch your favorites. Anytime. Anywhere” writes checks its content providers can’t cash.
4 tags
Daring Fireball: The iPhone 4S →
On a whim, I asked Siri, with no other context, “When is my next haircut?” Siri answered with my appointment scheduled for later this month. I asked, “When was my last haircut?”, and it found that appointment from a month ago. I told Siri, “Play something by the Rolling Stones” and it played a random Stones song (“Gimme Shelter”, from Let It Bleed). I interrupted and said, “Play ‘Some Girls’ by...
2 tags
5 tags
FOIA and the Question of Secret Law →
Charlie Savage of the New York Times has filed this FOIA suit in an effort to acquire a classified report issued by DOJ and ODNI to Congress “pertaining to intelligence collection authorities” under section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act (permitting the government to obtain from the FISC an order for the production of “any tangible things” upon a showing of “reasonable grounds” in relation to an...
2 tags
7 tags
7 tags
Watch“What if we had to make a choice between two quintessential American beliefs: Capitalism and Democracy?”
An in-depth discussion with David Korten about capitalism’s threat to democracy.
via Cooking Up A Story
1 tag
kateoplis:
“This is quite possibly the biggest potential scandal of the Obama years. But there’s a danger that it will go ignored for three reasons:
First, it’s so incredibly blatant that it’s hard to believe—neither of us are naifs, but we are still astonished that they’d show their industry bias this clearly. There were plenty of other signs, of course—emails released last week, for...
“We’re all broken — every single one of us — and yet we pretend that we’re not....”
– Matthew Santos (D), The West Wing
re: Steve Jobs
1 tag
