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Yeah, yeah, I’m a few days late on this. By now, everyone’s moved on to Spitzer’s expensive fornications. However, this post over at Salon by Glenn Greenwald was brought to my attention, and is quite interesting.
“It’s extremely likely … that had Power been speaking to a typical reporter from the American establishment media, her request [...]
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Who Needs Education Anyway? Put it at the bottom o’ the list!
“We are responsible for all the students in our care. You really have to think health and safety first, and then you educate.”
* Leon J. Campo, superintendent of East Meadow schools on Long Island. He’s talking about the decision, since overturned, to not [...]
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Or, what the fuck about social networks is actually social?
A very interesting piece in yesterday’s Boston Globe came my way today; “The Joy of Boredom.” In the piece, Carolyn Johnson makes note of some of the more disturbing trends that I’ve noticed in concert with digital culture.
Key points:
“The entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on the small [...]
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Over the past week or so, I’ve combed through and analyzed 247 TV news stories about the ‘08 campaign from Dec. 26 to Super Tuesday (still have more to go!). While there has been much that’s been striking about what I’ve actually found once I started to crunch numbers, not all that much of it [...]
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So, looks like Obama advisor, author, and all-’round intellectual powerhouse Samantha Power has resigned today under heavy public pressure from the Clinton campaign. If you’re not in the campaign dugout following the inside baseball, lemme back up here.
Power, in giving an interview to the Scotsman newspaper, called Clinton “a monster” and unfortunately immediately tried to [...]
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