November 2011
28 posts
“Turning tainted or even contaminated food into “edible” and...”
– FDA says it’s OK to turn bad food into sellable stuff » peoplesworld
“Mubarak is Berlusconi is Bloomberg is Quan is Walker is pepper spray is broken...”
– Editorial: We Are Free People | The Occupied Wall Street Journal
“Ideas that have gone extinct in Israel still wander the American landscape, as...”
– Why Are They So Angry?
“Then there are the myriad forms of violence that were once the banal backdrop of...”
– Are We Getting Nicer? - NYTimes.com
“People still like to shop, and that’s what they know,” Mr. Tamirat said later....”
– Black Friday Shoppers Fan Out in the Dark of Night - NYTimes.com
“That’s insane!” said an aggravated Luz Anthony, 24, mother of a 3-year-old...”
– Toy guns for sale from vending machine in Bronx store have parents upset - NY Daily News
“So would you support going after Walker? Trumka doesn’t hesitate....”
– Richard Trumka Profile - Richard Trumka Americans of the Year 2011 - Esquire
“The consumer society is in fact the most efficient mechanism ever devised for...”
– Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
“The problem with the talking point is all of the information it leaves out. The...”
– Political Animal - A fair share
“Earlier in the week, the attorney for Mrs. Arroyo’s husband, Ferdinand Topacio,...”
– Really? Why even say that?
“How is it that he could be batting back charges of sexual harassment and yet...”
– Gall in High Places - NYTimes.com
“The young people in Zuccotti Park and more than 1,000 cities have started...”
– The New Progressive Movement - NYTimes.com
“Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, the ninth richest person in the world, opens her...”
– Wal-Mart heiress touts Rosie but doesn’t care for Wal-Mart female employees.
“Possibly the most inadvertently ironic headline was the Times’ “In Private, Wall...”
– Occupy the Press — In These Times
“The sole opponent was Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), the Senate’s most right-wing...”
– Political Animal - ‘Happy Veterans Day, Sen. DeMint’
“We’ve done research, and the ads are considered annoying, irritating and...”
– Ads will always be this way. If marketers could think of ways to make them less annoying then they would have found the holy grail of advertising.
Why I love Hilda Solis
“I’ll be darned if I’m going to set that aside now because a few tea baggers want to somehow muzzle my voice.” — U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, said during the Florida Democratic Convention over the weekend, as quoted by the Tallahassee Democrat. The secretary apparently did not understand the sexual connotation of the word “teabagger”.
It’s OK Hilda call them what they are!
“Even if companies like Apple are sending innovation abroad along with their...”
– Can the U.S. Invent the Next iPad if We Can’t Build It? - Jordan Weissmann - Business - The Atlantic
“This begins to point to one of the nation’s structural problems. For more...”
– Welcome to America’s Lost Decade - Daniel Indiviglio - Business - The Atlantic
“It’s not just this new HTML5-based Gmail that is awash in two-tone colors or...”
– Google Interface Designs: Welcome to Dullsville
“A lot of 15-year-old girls are living in Narnia today.”
– Justin Bieber Fans Thirst for the Blood of His Alleged Baby Mama
“Tim Horsburgh, who directs Kartemquin’s social networking efforts, says that he...”
– Documenting Social Justice — In These Times
“For now, though, it’s hit or miss. In May, Newt Gingrich was reported to...”
– How the Hashtag Became a Campaign Battleground - Nancy Scola - Politics - The Atlantic