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My BF sent me this link because he thought I might wish to do a blog post about it. I'm grateful that he also mentioned it to me, or I never would have seen it, since that particular email, for some unknown reason, ended up in my junk/spam folder.

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JUNE 2, 2009 3:07PM

"And they say newspapers are dead."

In his July letter, the estimable Graydon Carter, Editor of Vanity Fair since 1992, has some advice for newspapers:

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[...]Who has the patience to hear endless whining about someone else’s misfortune when your own fortunes are rickety? This is not to say that the hea… Read full post »
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MAY 4, 2009 11:38AM

"...like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving."

That turkey comment is how Ann Pettifor describes bankers and their lobbyists  in her lastest post at The Huffington Post: Defeating Homeowners: A Phyrric Victory for Bankers. I might have said it's just one more example of emphasizing short-term gains over the long view of prosperity for everyo… Read full post »

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I just read this story by Ryan Grim on HuffPost, "In Their Own Words: Why Dem Senators Screwed Homeowners"...  and it was the final straw. I've been seriously considering changing my party registration from Democratic to Independent, just to make a point, but I was going to do it manually. Howev… Read full post »

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APRIL 28, 2009 10:42AM

Comedic Dissonance (updated....)

Jason Linkins, of the Huffington Post, writes about a study on processing humor, entitled "The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report." The study  supplies quantitative data on (ideologically-biased) reactions to "The Colbert Repo… Read full post »

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