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Friday, December 31, 2010
New Palin DVD to be released
(CNN) - Sarah Palin's hit reality show has come to an end, but the TLC network has announced the former...
The 2010 Daily Dish Awards
Click the following links to vote for the 2010 Malkin Award, Moore Award, Yglesias Award, Hewitt Award, Von Hoffmann Award, Mental Health Break Of The Year, and Face Of The Year. Also - for the first time - Chart Of...
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Question Of The Week: "Cool Hand Luke"
by Conor Friedersdorf A reader writes: An "aspirational identification" would probably best describe the impact Cool Hand Luke had on me - specifically the scene where Luke and the chain gang are tarring the road. I never had visions of...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
New Jersey mayor uses Twitter to clear Newark streets
Newark, New Jersey (CNN) - Cory Booker has added social media to his arsenal of snowplows as the active Newark,...
Dusting Off Old Gift Cards
by Patrick Appel Lifehacker has tips: In the event your card has already expired, you're not necessarily out of luck. If it's a ten-year-old gift card you might want to bid your final farewells and do more to remember in...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
The Situation Room: Your political resolutions
Here's your chance to join the discussion in�The Situation Room. Assignment: With the New Year around the corner, it?s time...
Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/29/the-situation-room-your-political-resolutions/
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Midday open thread
- Glenn Greenwald, on Wikileaks:
Over the last month, I've done many television and radio segments about WikiLeaks and what always strikes me is how indistinguishable -- identical -- are the political figures and the journalists. There's just no difference in how they think, what their values and priorities are, how completely they've ingested and how eagerly they recite the same anti-WikiLeaks, "Assange = Saddam" script. So absolute is the WikiLeaks-is-Evil bipartisan orthodoxy among the Beltway political and media class (forever cemented by the joint Biden/McConnell decree that Assange is a "high-tech Terrorist,") that you're viewed as being from another planet if you don't spout it. It's the equivalent of questioning Saddam's WMD stockpile in early 2003.
It's not news that establishment journalists identify with, are merged into, serve as spokespeople for, the political class: that's what makes them establishment journalists. But even knowing that, it's just amazing, to me at least, how so many of these "debates" I've done involving one anti-WikiLeaks political figure and one ostensibly "neutral" journalist -- on MSNBC with The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart and former GOP Congresswoman Susan Molinari, on NPR with The New York Times' John Burns and former Clinton State Department official James Rubin, and last night on CNN with Yellin and Townsend -- entail no daylight at all between the "journalists" and the political figures.
It's a must-read piece.
- Atrios, on Wikileaks:
It isn't exactly the same thing, but moments like this I'm reminded of a time years ago when I was talking at a conference about internets and stuff to a not entirely plugged in audience and a man stood up and said something like, "You mean, people can just say whatever they want on the internet? Don't we need to do something about that?"
Gatekeepers hate it when gates are crashed.
- Digby, on Wikileaks:
[Wikileaks] originally thought there would be thousands of Marcy Wheelers combing through the documents and creating a narrative of events but found out that there were very few people of her caliber doing that kind of work and getting noticed. What they needed was professional journalism. And so they collaborated with newspapers and observed the rules they mutually agreed upon. Yet most journalists are still heaping them with scorn and accusing them of heinous crimes. It's almost as if they're afraid they might have to actually do something other than kow-tow to power so they're rejecting the most powerful validation of their purpose and necessity in the internet age.
This is the saddest day for journalism since their guileless acceptance of the WMD boogeyman and giddy cheerleading for the Iraq war. It turns out that journalism is important, but most of these "professional" practitioners of the field are not only failing to practice it, they are hostile to the idea that they should practice it. It's very revealing.
- John Cole on Andrew Sullivan:
Digby suggested the right-wing is fomenting violence, and that’s too much for your delicate self, while most of your Malkin nominees are for… fomenting violence. Maybe Digby is on to something? You need to get a grip, especially since more than few of those folks would be ok with violence against you for simply being gay. If this isn’t a prime example of establishment “BOTH SIDES DO IT” bullshit, I don’t know what is.
But it makes Andrew Sullivan a VERY SERIOUS PERSON, and really, that's all that matters. Maybe Michael Bloomberg could select him instead of Joe Scarborough for vice president on the latest trendy "centrist and reasonable" third party ticket.
- In honor of everyone stuck in places where winter isn't optional:
- That's a lot of pills.
These days, the medicine cabinet is truly a family affair. More than a quarter of U.S. kids and teens are taking a medication on a chronic basis, according to Medco Health Solutions Inc., the biggest U.S. pharmacy-benefit manager with around 65 million members. Nearly 7% are on two or more such drugs, based on the company's database figures for 2009.
- Fodder for a slow news day -- Obama goes bowling! Buys ice cream! Leaves a tip!
- I wish this had translated to better election results.
His party may have suffered a shellacking in November's elections, but President Obama remains the unchallenged champion on another front: For the third year in a row, he is by far the most-admired man.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton continues an even longer run, ranked in the USA TODAY/Gallup Poll as the most-admired woman for the ninth straight year.But then there's this:
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is second, as she was in 2009.
Despite Americans' unhappiness with the nation's politics, politicians dominate both lists. The top 10 men include not only the president but also three living former presidents. Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton take the top three spots.
And this:
Conservative commentator Glenn Beck edges ahead of the Dalai Lama, who ranks 10th.
Palin and Bush? Beck? Well, conservatives have to admire someone. Interesting that their picks are some of the least popular people in the country. And craziest.
- Aravosis makes a good point.
It makes no sense that the defense budget is always off limits. Why is cutting funding to the cops okay, but not DOD? Dead is dead. It doesn't make us any safer having more missiles and more tanks if the local thug knocks us off.
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/httvf6GpMQs/-Midday-open-thread
Got Christmas Gifts To Return?
by Conor Friedersdorf Amazon is hoping that this is the last time.
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