If we have the courage of our convictions, and we do, then we will and we must stand up against disastrous policies, regardless of the president’s popularity.
GOP head Michael Steele • Who is trying to make a return to the public eye after looking like a freaking idiot ever since he was elected GOP chair. In his speech, he said that the party needs to sharply attack Obama’s policies head-on, rather than pussyfoot around them. Did he succeed at making a return to the public eye? Twitter largely sez no, and that he sucks at public speaking to boot. • source
Craigslist is great. Despite the creative destruction it’s creating for the newspaper industry at the moment, it’s clearly a useful resource that millions of people – thousands in the state of South Carolina, where McMaster is attorney general – find value in. They’re one of the few Web services more concerned about value than profit.
Craigslist isn’t “erotic” We’ve all heard this drama about Craigslist’s “Erotic Services” section, the “Craigslist Killer” and how Craigslist is ruining our society for having the same kind of ads that run in alt-weeklies and Yellow pages. But few people use it for this purpose – mostly, people sell stuff, find apartments and look for jobs. Not massages.
Political grabHenry McMaster’s attempt to file criminal charges against a very popular service in his state over a tiny minority of posts (40 out of 334,180 in S.C.) is clearly just an attempt by McMaster to Spitzer his way into higher office. Because Craigslist means headlines. Craigslist won’t take it. Apologize to them, Henry. source
Is Eminem just regurgitating the same type of album he made a decade ago, like Pitchfork said today? Metacritic also suggests that it’s not a critical hit across the board. But it should be up to the listener. So listen, kids.
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Michael Martin is the first speaker to resign since 1695. Martin, whose parliament became embroiled in political scandal after days of reports by the Daily Telegraph about huge personal expenses made by members of Parliament. We’re not talking a couple of reports. We’re talking a massive f&*!(&% subsection of the Telegraph’s site about the expenses, which they got their hands on months before the Parliament planned to release them themselves. So, yeah, let’s just say that about half the British Parliament is screwed. High-five to the Telegraph for looking out for the common man. source
Lens is awesome, guys! The New York Times needs to do more awesome things like this (which organizes all their multimedia in one convenient bloglike site) and fewer lame things like this. Trust us. We know what we’re talking about.
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