October 2010
Europe’s Plagues Came From China, Study Finds -... →
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The Black Angels - Haunting...
“With Netflix, the choice of what to watch right now and what to watch later is...”
– Procrastination « You Are Not So Smart
“But in his appearance on “Face the Nation,” he said emphatically that “at this...”
– Bombs Were Designed to Destroy Planes, U.S. Believes - NYTimes.com
Health Overhaul May Bring Free Birth Control ::... →
Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.
Frank Rich: The Grand Old Plot Against the Tea... →
The Call No Politician Wants to Make - NYTimes.com →
“Gridlock will not bring the stability and compromise that pundits crave. It will...”
– The Stalemate State | The American Prospect
“The prevailing question about John McCain this year is: What happened? What...”
– John McCain: The Man Who Never Was | Politics | Vanity Fair
The Audacity of Nope | Vanity Fair →
Caffeine and Alcohol - Wham! Bam! Boozled. -... →
Frank Bruni reviews Four Loko.
Bomb found in Northern Ireland; security alert at... →
Yemen arrests parcel bomb suspect | Reuters →
Yemeni security forces on Saturday arrested a woman believed to be involved in sending explosive packages bound for the United States, a security official said.
“The police in New York City are not just permitted, they are encouraged to...”
– Bob Herbert: The Shame of New York City - NYTimes.com
““What exactly was this?” Mr. Stewart asks. “This was not a rally to ridicule...”
– Jon Stewart via David Itzkoff (via soupsoup)
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“All seven Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee have signed a letter...”
– Immigration overhaul: Republican senators signal a partisan showdown - latimes.com
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Joe Miller, Campaign Finance Reform Advocate? |... →
In Senate Races, New G.O.P. Blood Is Really Mostly... →
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Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - St....
“There is no other way to put this: the Mets’ decision to hire Sandy Alderson as...”
– Sandy Alderson: An overachieving baseball architect for an underachieving baseball franchise | Capital New York
“I suppose we’ll soon find out if you can get elected to the Senate despite...”
– The Plum Line - Sharron Angle: “I’ll answer those questions when I’m the Senator”
Coal Industry Increases Spending to Sway Next... →
Mafia Killer Is Sentenced to Time Served -... →
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“For as long as anyone can remember, television networks and the Associated Press...”
– Farewell to ‘Precinct Reporting’ - Hotline On Call
Bomb on plane in UK raises concern in US - CNN.com →
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Killing Reconciliation | The Nation →
By Jeremy Scahill
Inquiry Finds U.S. Official Set Up Spy Ring in... →
A senior Pentagon official broke Defense Department rules and “deliberately misled” senior generals when he set up a network of private contractors to spy in Afghanistan andPakistan beginning last year, according to the results of an internal government investigation.
Dustin Dominiak: The Guy Who Sleazed Christine... →
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And now: Miller Time.
Buried lede of today’s Gawker chicanery: Foster wins the Internet.
“Let me make sure I understand this. The ad’s contention is that seniors are...”
– Steve Inskeep, on Morning Edition, discussing a campaign ad from Indiana GOP Senate candidate Dan Coats against Democrat Brad Ellsworth. Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact.com, rated Coats’ ad “pants on fire.” (via savingpaper)
Why the 100% solution feels 95% wrong
bojo:
There’s a little meme, fired up mostly by Jay Rosen, about something called “the 100% solution” for journalism. That is, taking a subject and covering everything about it (Rosen’s example is a network of organisations and volunteers covering every single event in the upcoming Chicago mayoral elections).
This idea of total reporting has built a head of steam, both the glowing — Paul...
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Special report: Tea Party candidates only a... →
PolitiFact | We rate the 2010 campaign Barely True →
