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mistermix has been a Balloon Juice writer since 2010.
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Looks like we need an open thread. Here’s something you might want to consider:
Publishers can do whatever they want. If you don’t like it, don’t send them nasty emails or browse their sites with ad-blockers: just don’t support them. Don’t read their content, don’t link to them, and don’t talk about them. Since money’s not usually involved, vote with your attention and read elsewhere.
(via DF)
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Roberts has hurt feelings about the SOTU:
Roberts said anyone was free to criticize the court, and some have an obligation to do so because of their positions.
“So I have no problems with that,” he said. “On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances and the decorum.
“The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the court — according the requirements of protocol — has to sit there expressionless, I think is very troubling.”
Something’s going on with embedding, but here’s the song.
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Here’s a simple question: When was the last time you clicked on, or even were influenced by, a web site advertisement?
Here’s another one: Without looking, what products are being advertised on Balloon-Juice today?
I’ll bet both of those questions are hard to answer.
Politico justifies its existence by the number of pageviews it gets in a day. The Atlantic just turned its site to shit to make readers view more pages. Yet every Internet user I know is blind to ads.
There’s a big disconnect here, one that doesn’t seem to be recognized by any of the media geniuses who spend all day pimping their posts on Twitter.
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This post is in: First Posts, Politics, Show Me On the Doll Where Rahm Touched You
Thanks to John and my friend DougJ, I’m going to be posting my barely literate musings here. I’ll write a little more about myself in a later post, but I want to start with one of the strangest things I’ve heard in, well, perhaps forever.
Eric Massa, my Congressman for about 12 more hours, had his Dick Nixon 1962 moment yesterday on a radio show he co-hosts on Sundays (audio here). Highlights:
The incident that Massa believes sparked the investigation happened at a wedding reception for one of his staff members. When being razzed about possibly banging one of the bridesmaids he had just danced with, Massa “tousled the hair” of one of his male staffers and said “What I really ought to be doing is fucking you.”
It’s a strange end to a promising career, but those of us who have been watching him over the years always knew he had something like this in him.
Update: Just to be clear, by “always had something like this in him”, I meant a crazypants rant, not the harassment stuff.