January 2012
18 posts
“John King, CNN: Because of your history with Speaker Gingrich, what goes through...”
– Squeeeee!
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Public Radio International (PRI): This American... →
publicradiointernational:
Last week, Apple released for the first time the list of companies that supply components and manufacturing services to the company. It also announced that it would allow the Fair Labor Association to oversee independent audits of assembly plants employed by Apple.
A week before this…
thePhoenix.com →
(via Instapaper)
When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? →
(via Instapaper)
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December 2011
15 posts
“In the past ten years, as curate has exploded in popular culture and as a...”
– Ain’t Miscuratin’ (DIS) [Via] (via frontofbook)
There’s good reason to worry. Often when I see terms like “curate” and “content” their use is far removed from my own concepts and definitions.
I hold content to be all media of value. Media that is informational or...
“I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like!” Paul...”
– Paul’s Raw Milk Freedom Pitch Reflects Offbeat Campaign on Rise - Bloomberg
There’s a cherry quote in there from a young Paul-ite who explains, “young people don’t like people telling them what to do.”
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“Asked later if he thought Sutton may have deceived him, Brodkorb chose his words...”
– from a truly explosive report at Politics in Minnesota that recently resigned MN GOP chairperson Tony Sutton agreed to take on the recount debt.
This shit is straight up BANANAS. Like one of the biggest local stories in all my years of living in MN. Unbelievable.
(via mediation)
It makes me...
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Taylor Rules - Paul Krugman →
I haven’t read the article. Just the headline. Whatever, it’s Krugman.
““If we’re shortsighted and only focus on electing ideological purists that can’t...”
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OMG this report on the infighting in the MN GOP is blowing my mind. We know these guys are something else, but man. I’d say Arne Carlson would be losing his voice from saying “I told you so”, if it weren’t so obvious that short circuiting the party by making it hyper-partisan wasn’t the...
November 2011
26 posts
Simon Fujiwara's White Bread Dreams →
Dog Breeder Story [Editor's Note] →
neighborhoodr-minneapolis:
On Oct. 31, WCCO aired a story during our 10 p.m. news about a dog breeder who was found to have sold nearly 1,400 dogs after her USDA license to sell was terminated in August 2010.
While investigating where those dogs ended up, we discovered an address where, on 12 separate occasions over a period of approximately a year, a total of 168 dogs were shipped. At that...
“A visit to the Amazon page for the pepper spray product used by Pike shows...”
– UC Davis incident inspires Amazon customers to use review site as vehicle for protest - BlogPost - The Washington Post
My Amazon.com review of Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/ 1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray was totally quoted by the Washington Post!
How can I prove I wrote...
Helpful Amazon review of the day
This review is from: Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray (Misc.) Whenever I need to breezily inflict discipline on unruly citizens, I know I can trust Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray to get the job done! The power of reason is no match for Defense Technology’s superior repression power....
“Here’s why the supercommittee is failing, in one sentence: Democrats wanted the...”
– No, `both sides’ aren’t equally to blame for supercommittee failure - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
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Watchaakruse:
The Next Big Apple?
This week in the magazine, John Seabrook writes about the process of building a better apple, focussing on the creation of a new variety “trying to take its place as the next hot apple” called SweeTango. He goes to Minnesota, where the apple was bred, and finds that the SweeTango is “a piece of intellectual property.”
[The New Yorker]
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“10,000 Lakes — not one Kardashian”
– Could Kim Kardashian hurt MN tourism, recruiting?
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