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The Real Center of American Politics: A Reflection...

robertreich: The true center of American politics isn’t found where most of us agree. We fiercely disagree. That’s not a problem. Democracy assumes disagreement. The true center is about how we resolve those disagreements. Most of us believe we should work them out respectfully. We don’t believe in winning political arguments through bullying, name-calling, lying, intimidating, or using...

Oct 31st

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Watch

HAPPY HALLOWEEN. Before you go out performing - ahem, *begging* - for candy tonight, you better listen up to uncle Larry while he tells you about keeping it safe while you’re out there. Seriously. Pay attention.

Oct 29th

Rally To Restore Divisions

langer: All summer long we heard liberals correctly argue that to deny Muslims the right to build a community center in downtown Manhattan would be to willingly hand a recruiting tool to extremists who imagine the West to be the sort of place that denies Muslims the right to build community centers. And yet this weekend liberals will gather on the Mall in our nation’s capital to collectively...

Oct 28th

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Oct 27th

Observant Traveler's Tip #246

You can learn many of the rules of business simply by observing businessmen’s customs. For instance, if you’re on a phone call, under no circumstances do you wash your hands when you finish pooping at the Tampa International Airport on a Tuesday.

Oct 26th

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Oct 24th

“Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees (over 8,000 of them...”

– Why Did 17 Million Students Go to College? - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Education One would think this might bode well for us. (See where thinking gets you?)

Oct 23rd

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Oct 22nd

eoporto asked: Do you follow politics? Does it make you lose faith in America?

Oct 22nd

“The Internet can be cheap therapist, except it isn’t a therapist. It’s someone...”

– bananacasts What is your hourly rate, and do you accept Highmark BC/BS?

Oct 22nd

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This is what I know about the Internet

Hi. The Internet has changed a lot since I first discovered it inside my Mac Classic in 1992. It’s a lot easier to use, and there’s more stuff online than ever before. And everything’s a lot faster than it used to be and memorization and computational skills are no longer relevant in connected societies nowadays. Music, movies, books, and software are all free, and loneliness has...

Oct 22nd

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250 Free Online Courses from Top Universities |... →

I’m just going to go ahead and leave this right here. Click through for the complete list. It’s astonishing. See you in a couple of years. General Open Course Collections YouTubeEDU: Web Site Academic Earth: Web Site VideoLectures.net: Web Site Indian Institute of Technology: YouTube MIT OpenCourseWare: Web Site iTunes Stanford: iTunes UC Berkeley: Web Site iTunes YouTube ...

Oct 21st

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Oct 19th

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Oct 18th

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“I never again want to go out on the South Side. Ever. The streets are...”

– Pittsblerg: South Side Street Harrassment & Ben Rapistberger I’m presently reminded of a high school moral theology lesson on the differences between “vincible ignorance” and “invincible ignorance.” Point being, I don’t know how many (of you, my pals, or of...

Oct 17th

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Oct 14th

Twitter Whitespace: a Safari extension

dwineman: Ever notice how you can enter as many spaces and line breaks as you want when posting a tweet, but when Twitter displays it, they mysteriously disappear? And did you also notice that Twitter clients, not to mention sites like Favstar and Tweetboner, are somehow able to display tweets as they were written, whitespace and all? Doesn’t that just chafe your hiney? Well, if you use...

Oct 14th

“Grammarians may cheer this innovation. The texting interface also could prod...”

– Apple patents ‘anti-sexting’ technology - CNN.com YEA PROLLY SO

Oct 14th

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Oct 14th

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Truthful Tuesday

Frequent sarcasm depletes me and I know it. Most of the time, I embrace it out of laziness, not cleverness. I don’t select it; I’m stuck with it. It’s a powerful tool I misuse absurdly often, considering the values I purport to hold. I consider this more often than I’m comfortable with, given my concurrent reluctance to change the behavior. These may be the voices of...

Oct 12th