Despite the silly subtitle, this excellent New Republic piece argues convincingly that Obama’s administration could be doomed if unemployment isn’t quickly brought under control.
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Despite the silly subtitle, this excellent New Republic piece argues convincingly that Obama’s administration could be doomed if unemployment isn’t quickly brought under control.
You’ve probably forgotten how annoyingly funny and charming Bill Clinton is.
— The New York Times goes for the blunt-but-affectionate approach. “Rabelaisian” you’ll have to look up.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft Office takes to the web
No shit, sherlock.
In the 1970s, American auto manufacturing was complicit in its own marginalization… providing cheap, shoddy vehicles that would be rapidly replaced with newer cheap, shoddy vehicles? What would captive American consumers do? Buy a car from Japan? Germany? South Korea? Well, yes, as it turns out. But the analogy doesn’t quite capture the extraordinary incompetence exhibited by the newspaper industry.
After all, a Toyota is a good car and all that was required for Detroit to begin its agonizing decline was for consumers to be offered a legitimate choice. In the newspaper industry, however, the fledgling efforts of new media to replicate the scope, competence, and consistency of a healthy daily paper have so far yielded little in the way of genuine competition…
Detroit lost to a better, new product; newspapers, to the vague suggestion of one.
"— The Wire’s David Simon gives his thoughts on the future of newspapers
— Official Google Blog: Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really) “Traditional definition”? You mean the meaning? This is a good trick. “Oh, you think I stole your wallet, do you? Well, I suppose you could say that, if you subscribe to the traditional definition of stealing as taking stuff that isn’t yours.”
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Clive Dickens, chief operating officer at Absolute Radio
Shame they didn’t come with you when you changed your name from Virgin, really, isn’t it?
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Freedom to progress, all the way around. Around the country. Around the schedules of Fox News. Around the remaining Republican-governed states, from speaking opportunity to speaking opportunity…
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Freudian slip or sinister arch-libertarian conspiracy?
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Iran protests: Fifth day of unrest as regime cracks down on critics | World news | guardian.co.uk
Um, crikey.
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Translation: I didn’t do it. And even if I did it’s none of your business. And even if it is there’s nothing wrong with it.