June 2013
24 posts
“New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft revealed the real story behind a 2005 meeting with Vladimir Putin, during which the Russian president pocketed his Super Bowl ring, worth more than $25,000. Kraft, at the time, claimed the diamond-encrusted bauble was a gift, but he now admits Putin stole it, and the White House intervened when he demanded it back.”
—Kraft: Putin stole Bowl ring - NYPOST (via brooklynmutt)
Makes perfect sense.
America: Where two teenage rapists get one year and two years, respectively, in jail, while the Anonymous hacker that brought the rape to light faces five times their sentences.
What a fucked-up country we live in.
‘Merica.
this gif is just perfect.
In which an ad for Cheerios featuring the child of an interracial couple spurs a racist backlash. →
adweek.com
- Today in “I Bet You Didn’t Realize It Was 2013” news.
I never thought I'd have an iota of respect for Megyn Kelly. →
huffingtonpost.com
Megyn Kelly methodically tore fellow Fox News pundits Erick Erickson and Lou Dobbs to shreds on Friday for their instantly infamous comments about women in the workplace. Both men had a near meltdown about a study which showed that more women than ever were the sole or primary breadwinners in their households.
May 2013
50 posts
I was a liberal mole at Fox News: From Bill O’Reilly to Roger Ailes, here’s all the inside dope - Salon.com →
salon.com
An excerpt from Joe Muto’s An Athiest in the FOXhole.
I love the internet today. I am so proud of my friend Joe.
“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”
—When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
Word.
“The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”
—Steve Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, chiming in on the pronunciation of the word. (As everyone knows, choosy memes choose “jif.”) Wilhite, a former CompuServe employee, created the format in 1987 and is to receive an award for his creation tonight. (via shortformblog)
No.
“There were no other competing bids, despite reports, to snap up the New York-based hipster blogging service.”
—Kara Swisher needs to stop calling Tumblr a hipster blogging service. (Oh, and she says the deal was unanimously approved. On a side note, TechCrunch suggests that the reason why Tumblr accepted the lower deal is because many of their executives have departed in recent months.)
