By Shoq, on March 6th, 2010
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So you get all the hilarity of their planning missives, as Michael P. Leahy lures all the suckers into one big marketing tent for his goofy Saul Alinsky books with their make-believe history.
Oh, and it may also help screw up AFP/David Koch's bus-buying and booking plans for the big
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By Shoq, on March 6th, 2010
Who Says: Narrative Authority In a Fragmented World
Jay Rosen tweeted this seminal post by Megan Garber, articulating what the web and digital media are doing to authority memes and journalism's role in this bizarre new world.
Since the need to manage the tangled and competing taxonomic hierarchies of such a Narrative Big Brother has been
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By Shoq, on January 16th, 2010
Wyclef Jean responds to some questions raised by TheSmokingGun, the AP, and others:
I had expected that they would arrange some event in Haiti to answer some of the many questions raised. I never thought he was a "crook," ever. I don't think anyone else said he was, either. Only that there was some sloppy IRS
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By Shoq, on January 16th, 2010
After months of whining, backstabbing, and sniveling by people who think bashing Obama is the best way to redirect America on a progressive path, the result has been a demoralized and disaffected electorate that is easy polemical pickins for the malicious fascists who got us into this mess.
We have 48 hours to not just save
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By Shoq, on January 14th, 2010
Why is Haiti so poor? No, Fox News, it's not because they're lazy,or don't believe in capitalism. A few articles can give you the sad facts of this wretchedly abused nation of ex-slaves (but not very ex).
By Shoq, on December 31st, 2009
At this point in time, this page exists only in someone's mental conceptual framework. The idea it commemorates exists with this posting, but beyond that, nothing.
By Shoq, on December 31st, 2009
At this point in time, this page exists only in someone's mental conceptual framework. The idea it commemorates exists with this posting, but beyond that, nothing.
By Shoq, on December 5th, 2009
Another time- honored myth falls away.
Remember how often you were told that cats nap about 75% of their day away? Wrong. I always thought that number was absurd, but now a new study proves it was way, way off. It's more like just 6%.
The researchers used a brilliant method. They hung cameras around the
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