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August 25, 2010
Rauf "Is A Jihadist"
by Chris Bodenner
Santorum spreads the ugly rhetoric.
Social Sciences - Communication - Rhetoric - Organizations - Republican
About Face
by Chris Bodenner
Ryan Grim has a fantastic post on Facebook's decision to ban ads promoting pot legalization in California. The site originally agreed to run the ads but reversed itself because the image of a marijuana leaf runs counter to its policy:
Facebook's ad rules, however, only ban promotion of "[t:]obaccoproducts," not smoking in general. Since the 1970s, shops sellingmarijuana paraphernalia have sought ways around the law bydisingenuously claiming their products are "for tobacco use...
The Mother of All Traffic Jams
by Conor Friedersdorf
Long haul trucker Dave Carter remarks on it:
A few years back, I got caught in a nasty snow storm on I-84 in New York. A traffic accident, induced by icy roads shut down the west bound side of the interstate for several hours, leaving us all to sit there in the snow. Several of us truckers volunteered to let folks in passenger vehicles spend some time in our cabs and stay warm while we idled our engines so they wouldn't have to decide between burning all the gas in their...
"Cutting" Social Security
by Patrick Appel
Howard Gleckman makes an essential distinction:
Social Security reform, almost no matter how designed, is likely to
provide higher levels of lifetime benefits for future cohorts of
retirees compared to today's retirees—just not as much as is scheduled
under today's unsustainable system.
Social Security - Social Security debate - United States - Politics - Privatization
Less Is More
by Patrick Appel
Scott Adams muses:
I recently wrote about my new watch that has GPS for tracking myrunning. It has so many features that I fail 50% of the time in gettingit to do anything at all. I literally don't know what sequence oftapping, holding, and humming gets me to the right mode. When it works,I start yelling "What did I just do?! What did I just do?!" I would pay50% more for a watch that only tells me the current time and my runningdistance.
Apple often gets the less features...
Time For Adults
by Chris Bodenner
Greenwald "love[s:] this Onion piece on Time Magazine so much that it actually hurts."
Twitter - Online Communities - Social Networking - Business - Trending and Popularity
"The View From My Depression"
by Chris Bodenner
A reader writes:
As a gay man with HIV/AIDS living with the virus, medications, doctors, hospitalizations for 20+ years, HIV is in and of itself a depression.
In 2005, my partner passed away and his father sued for possession of our house. The court granted the father a lis pendens, which made the property unsellable. I became ill again in 2006 and was placed on state disability. Unable to work and unable to continue the court costs, the house was foreclosed upon. My...
The Military Takes Over?
by Patrick Appel
Ahmed Rashid checks in on Pakistani politics:
It is now a cliché to describe how a worsening economy and the
of education and job opportunities have helped spawn Islamic
in Pakistan and elsewhere. Yet it is a trope worth repeating.Pakistan's geopolitical assertiveness in the midst of all this chaosis a result of the military's overwhelming power. It may be losing itshold on vast amounts of territory to the extremists, but it is takingcontrol of Pakistan's...
Chart Of The Day
by Patrick Appel
Building off some analysis by Fidelity, Daniel Indiviglio is blown away by the cost of college:
These estimated [monthly:] payments would run from a child's birth
through his or her third year of undergraduate education -- about 21
years. The chart assumes a family's income will grow by 1.5% per year.
It also already takes into account a healthy amount of financial aid
through grants, scholarships, and family gifts
Scholarship - Student financial aid - College - E...
August 24, 2010
Three, Four ... Twenty Blocks? Ctd
by Chris Bodenner
A reader writes:
Do you guys remember this story from late 2006? A proposed mosque in an unincorporated area of Katy, Texas was met with local opposition. A neighbor of the proposed development held pig races in protest. It garnered some national media attention at the time, including a story on the Daily Show.
Things have quieted down...
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