Wingnuts Divorced From Reality

Posted by on Apr 29, 2010 in Politics | No Comments

J.L. Bell over at Salon rans the numbers on Snopes’ database of Internet rumors and finds what isn’t very surprising: After eight years in the White House (with Snopes.com around all that time), George W. Bush has been the subject of 47 internet rumors. After less than two years in office, Barack Obama has been ...

I Thought Everybody Knew Powerpoint Is Evil?

Posted by on Apr 27, 2010 in Business, Government, Miscellaneous | No Comments

I can’t stand PowerPoint(PPT). It just isn’t an effective way to present complex data. Now it seems the military has clued into this basic fact. “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) ...

What If The Teabaggers Were Black?

Posted by on Apr 25, 2010 in Politics | No Comments

Oh the horror? Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters—the black protesters—spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict ...

New Site: Longform Journalism

Posted by on Apr 24, 2010 in Media | No Comments

Longform.org is a site that focuses on collecting some of the best long-form journalism available on the Internet in a very clean user interface. This site is going to suck a lot of time out of my life.

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