June 2012
May 2012
“I love Coke more than anything, but I know full well that it’s poison. It destroys your teeth. It increases your appetite. It turns children in evil rage Gremlins. It offers nothing in the way of nutritional value. I have a cousin who used to work for UPS and whenever they had to clean the inside of the UPS truck, they doused the inside with Coke because it acted as a corrosive agent. That’s how fucking horrible soda is for you. It has no business being sold in public schools. Any soda lobbyist telling you about the benefits of drinking their product is a liar and a fucking scumbag. We all know it’s bad for us, and yet we continue drinking it (take it from someone who is currently unable to stop drinking Coke Zero).”
—Drew Magary
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Social media buttons are not a social media strategy →
informationarchitects.net
These buttons will vanish. The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survive, but the buttons will vanish for sure. Or do you seriously think that in ten years we will still have those buttons on every page? No, right? Why, because you already know as a user that they’re not that great. So why not get rid of them now? Because “they’re not doing any harm”? Are you sure?
President Obama Causes Outrage with Reference to 'Polish Death Camp' →
news.yahoo.com
“A Polish death camp” - Sikorski also tonight tweeted a link to an Economist story noting that “few things annoy Poles more than being blamed for the crimes committed by the Nazi occupiers of their homeland. For many years, Polish media, diplomats and politicians have tried to persuade outsiders to stop using the phrase ‘Polish death camps’ as a shorthand description of Auschwitz and other exemplars of Nazi brutality and mass murder. Unfortunately this seems to have escaped Barack Obama’s staff seem not to have noticed this.”
One person says the phrase “Polish death camp”, a phrase referring to an unfortunate event that is geographically correct. It offends everyone in Poland. Another person spells continental name of our country wrong in a promotional product - except it really wasn’t him, it was clearly the work of some design firm that doesn’t check their work enough.
One is much worse than the other, right? They’re not even close in scope. Besides, isn’t Mitt Romney supposed to be good at doing business-stuff? But he can’t run a campaign that hires a competent creative firm? How am I supposed to feel comfortable with anyone voting for this guy? Ugh.
(That said, Democrats continue to undermine their own candidate for not being everything they ever wanted a candidate to be, and the Republicans are motivated and mobilized in ways no one on the left wants to be, so it’s looking much more like we’re going to have a new President next year. What a disaster. Hopefully he knows how to spell America by then.)
So I guess questions of 'natural-born citizenship' re: Presidential elections are just saved for guys who were born in Hawaii.
Questions were occasionally asked about [George] Romney’s eligibility to run for President owing to his birth in Mexico, given the ambiguity in the United States Constitution over the phrase “natural-born citizen”. (Romney departed the race before the matter could be more definitively resolved, although the preponderance of opinion since then has been that he was eligible.)
- via Wikipedia.
Jeff Rosenthal, hip hop sketch comedy extraordinaire, Bonnaroo mediaite, friend of Hova, political insider.
Jake Tapper tries to get the White House to define "militants" →
abcnews.go.com
TAPPER: And there was a New York Times story today by Jo Becker and Scott Shane about the way that President Obama conducts some of the counterterrorism operations. One of the things that I think was most interesting was the fact that one of the ways — one of the ways that the administration has been able to assert that there have been so few civilian casualties in any of these drone attacks is because the presumption is that if you are in these locations, you are guilty of terrorism and the — there’s almost a “guilty until proven innocent” quality.
I’m wondering how on earth the administration can square that with the president’s past language on human rights and avoiding civilian casualties?
CARNEY: I think your description of the policies is not quite exact. I would refer you to John Brennan’s speech not long ago on these matters in which he was very explicit and transparent about methods that are used in our counterterrorism operations and the care that is taken to avoid civilian casualties. We have at our disposal tools that make avoidance of civilian casualties much easier and tools that make precision targeting possible in ways that have never existed in the past. And I think that this administration’s commitment, this president’s commitment to, A, go after those who would do harm to the United States and do harm to our allies, is clear.
“We are actually in a classic depression. A depression is when nobody wants to spend. Everybody wants to pay down their debt at the same time. Everybody is trying to pull back, either because they got too far into debt, or because if they’re a corporation, they can’t sell because consumers are pulling back. The thing about an economy is that it fits together. My spending is your income. Your spending is my income, so if we all pull back at the same time, we’re in a depression. The way to get out of it is for somebody to spend so that people can pay down their debt, so that we don’t have a depression. So that we have a chance to work out of whatever excesses we had in the past, and that somebody has to be the government.”
—Paul Krugman (via ericmortensen)
