February 2012
“I have lost more money to creative accounting, and American workers have lost...”
– Wil Wheaton, quoted by Parker Higgins in Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Men and Women in the Entertainment Industries | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via quotingthecrisis)
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“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...
‘Anonymous’ hacks Syrian president’s email with... →
Unknown members of the hacker collective “Anonymous” reportedly broke into the private email account of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad this week and learned that the embattled dictator is not one much for electronic security.
That’s because he picked the second-weakest password around: “12345,” according to documents published by Israeli news magazine Haaretz. Security researchers say the...
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January 2012
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“It’s long past time to rip those blindfolds off of the Lady Justice statues....”
– Glenn Greenwald
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“Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to...”
– Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison operator in America, statement to stockholders, 2005.
In other words: ending the Drug War and eliminating federal mandatory minimum sentences is bad for business. Adam Gopnik notes that CCA “spends millions lobbying legislators.”...
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“When I think back on Joe Paterno’s legacy, the events of the last two months...”
– Former Nittany Lion and current Oakland Raiders offensive lineman Stefen Wisniewski gets a head start in the running for the most insensitive statement to be made in regards to the death of a coward
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WatchFormer GOP Senator Alan Simpson tells Fareed Zakaria that Republicans “like to give the saliva test of purity and then they lose and then they just bitch for four years. It’s an amazing party.”
ZAKARIA: Senator, when I was growing up and coming of age, I remember you were thought of as a pretty conservative guy. I mean you were representing Wyoming, after all. And to listen...
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My Guantanamo Nightmare →
letterstomycountry:
Lakhdar Boumediene tells his story:
ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge. During that time my daughters grew up without me. They were toddlers when I was imprisoned, and were never allowed to visit or speak to me by phone. Most of their letters were...
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onefootinthegrave replied to your photo: Um .. Houston, your fans in the front row have a…
they’re losing. it means they’re in distress.
Then I suppose it won’t be the last time I see that.
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“Over the next three decades Jordan would become a world-class collector of...”
– Thomas Lake’s outstandingly written and researched “Did This Man Really Cut Michael Jordan?”
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WatchDoes corn count as an amber wave of grain? It would seem that Mitt Romney delivered his “rousing, impromptu” stump victory speech enough times before the Iowa caucus to know for sure.
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The 2011 Worst Prosecutor of the Year Award | The... →
jeffmiller:
Please read this. Because everyone needs to know that things like this happen.
December 2011
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“If we’re going to have a real discussion about the place of public...”
– Charles P. Pierce, “Tebow’s Religion: Fair Game”
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“With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60...”
– Senator Al Franken, “Why I Voted Against the Homeland Battlefield Bill”
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“You have to keep God first regardless of whatever trials or tribulations you...”
– Sam Hurd, then with the Dallas Cowboys, discussing what he was trying to stress in youth football camps two-and-a-half years ago.
Now with the Chicago Bears, Hurd has been arrested on felony drug charges for allegedly seeking five to ten kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana per week...
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“Explain to me how the league kills this Pau Gasol deal, but allows Kwame Brown...”
– NBA executive who had periodic talks with New Orleans throughout whatever you call that non-trade thing.
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