I love this, more coherent than most actual Door’s songs.
Talk about whatever.
by DougJ| 75 Comments
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I love this, more coherent than most actual Door’s songs.
Talk about whatever.
by $8 blue check mistermix| 76 Comments
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Someone mentioned the other day that my posts have been less profane than usual, so here’s something to make up for it. Open thread.
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Via RawStory, with thanks to commentor Handsmile:
“Trolling is a key part of the conservative-entertainment/media business model,” she said. “These guys say stuff all the time that they do not intend to be persuasive. They’re not trying to explain something, or bring people along to their way of thinking, they’re just doing something to attract attention, and hopefully condemnation and outrage from the mainstream, and particularly from liberals. They want to offend you. They seek to offend you. That is the point.”…
“Trolls have a purpose in our politics,” Maddow said. “They help niche, unpopular positions and people fund themselves and promote themselves as pseudo-political actors by tricking people who ought to know better into punching down at them.”
Be a smart person. Don’t feed the trolls.
Apart from this PSA, what’s on the agenda?
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(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com — click link for full-sized image)
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Too good not to use. So… which conspiracies have we missed, today?
by Tim F| 32 Comments
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From Kip the Wonder Rat, in comments:
Just got off the phone with the phone staffer for Lewis (GA-4). He says that the Congressman agrees with the President completely. BUT, “the other side has been much more vocal today.”
Chat about whatever.
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Via @edyong209,* this, which I encountered at the Atlantic’s Technology strand.
As Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg explains over at the Atlantic site, the video plays on the Leistungsschutzrecht controversy — a German take on the copyright/internet search/data wars recently much discussed in another context. She writes, “the term refers to controversial copyright legislation in Germany that would require search engines and aggregators to pay licensing fees to publishers for displaying snippets of text.”
But it may be sufficient that it’s a lovely piece of animation — the cherry on top of a midday open thread.
*That would be this Ed Yong, proprietor of his old blog over at the shiny new National Geographic empire. One of the best science hacks now scribbling.
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(Jeff Danziger’s website)
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Dana Milbank goes nutpicking, the easy way:
When I covered Congress in the mid-1990s, one of my favorite characters was Steve Stockman, a former street vagrant who somehow got swept to power in the Republican Revolution of ’94.
Voters in his Texas district, realizing their mistake, swept him out two years later — but not before he distinguished himself by demanding a federal investigation of the 1948 Kinsey Report on male sexuality and by claiming that the deadly 1993 assault on the Branch Davidians was a Clinton administration conspiracy to tighten gun control.
So it was with a mix of nostalgia and delight that I came across a headline on the news Web site Talking Points Memo this week proclaiming, “GOP Rep. Threatens Impeachment If Obama Uses Executive Order on Guns.” It turns out that congressman is . . . Steve Stockman. Sixteen years and one failed run for railroad commissioner later, he’s back in the halls of Congress.
But there is a key difference in Stockman’s second act, and it says less about him than about our politics. Back then, he proved too much even for the ’94 revolutionaries; his classmates came to shun him and voters in his competitive district sent him packing. But this time, Texas has redrawn its political boundaries, and Stockman’s new seat is safe. What’s more, his views, outlandish in the House of 1995, are more at home in the House of 2013. On Tuesday night, Stockman was one of 179 House Republicans to vote against aid to Hurricane Sandy’s victims.
All these years later, Stockman can still bring the crazy. The problem is he’s now just one of many purveyors…
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Apart from President Obama’s plan to “formally announce the most aggressive and expansive national gun-control agenda in generations” (I hope anyone standing near a Republican gets to wear a disposable poncho for that presser), what’s on the agenda for the day?
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