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English Rules for Radicals

Shoq — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:13:01 +0000

I make enough of them myself, and get asked often, so I figured it was time to post some of my reference materials for basic English usage, organized by the most common types of mistakes. I have hundreds, and will cull through them and update this frequently. This is merely a start. If you have

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Fun with Fascists! Americans for Prosperity Conference Call

Shoq — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:09:22 +0000

Americans for Prosperity invites us to:

Join Rep. Mike Pence For Health Care Tele-Town Hall Tonight!

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Our Enemy Within

Shoq — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:49:46 +0000

U.S. Chamber Builds Political Operations

Thinkprogress.org writes:

The LA Times reports today on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s growing “large-scale grass-roots political operation” that is being “funded by record-setting amounts of money raised from corporations and wealthy
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Jack Bauer Saves America: Takes Out Markos Moulitsas

Shoq — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:23:21 +0000

Driven to desperation by the actions of the vicious terrorist Markos Moulitsas, often likened to the infamous death panel inventor, Carlos the Jackal, agent Jack Bauer rigs up an explosive "Uber Rendition Vest (URV)," as ordered by his CTU Commander, Liz Cheney.

Immediately after photo was taken, Bauer triggers the URV,

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Who Broke America

Shoq — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:54:33 +0000

New America Foundation's Barry Lynn (author of Cornered), has a very important article in Washington Monthly called:

"Who Broke American Jobs."

In my view, all of our problems, from campaign financing, to media consolidation, to the government dysfunctionalism and hyper partisanship that is breaking down anything that ever made American a worthwhile

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Liberals: Sign-up For The Teaparty Town Halls In Washington

Shoq — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:51:55 +0000

Please do sign-up for this…

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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Narrative Authority: Can Institutional Respect Be Crowd-Sourced?

Shoq — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:51:05 +0000

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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Reconciliation at a Glance

Shoq — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:44:48 +0000

Sunlight Foundation comes through again with another great data exhibit. This time one that demonstrates just how much, how often, and how intensely the Republican party will lie about anything to control the narratives, no matter how evident and easily discoverable are the facts.

Look at all the red bars (#GOP) moving past 50 votes

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Media Misinforms Because We Allow It

Shoq — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:20:10 +0000

NOI's Joel Silberman explains that the media doesn't really want you very well informed. You need to watch this twice.

You need to watch this twice.

Related Be sure you see these pages. I have a LOT of material on these subjects, much of which you may not see too well organized elsewhere. Media Misinforms

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War on Mails: The Postal Service Crisis

Shoq — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:42:29 +0000

As the US Postal Service will no doubt be this week's target of Right and Left wing noise machines, and assorted partisan nitwittery, and Glenn Beck is sure to attack it as another wing of ACORN, I felt a short reader was called for.

As always, if

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