September 2012
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Jesus, VP Of Marketing At GodCo™ →
Jesus got off the flying disc. It was, after all, the only flying disc in existence, given to him by his father, Godfrey Cunningham — God for short. He checked his watch. It was 12:22 PM. His father had given him the watch, too. He had a lot of gifts from his father. Jesus often wondered why he didn’t see much of His Father. God had given a lot of presents to Jesus over the years but Jesus often...
August 2012
A full transcript of Eastwood’s bizarre RNC... →
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that Bill Nye quote is fake, btw.
checked sources; it never happened.
A History of Mitt Romney in 30 Objects. →
This, from Mother Jones magazine, is impeccably well done.
You learn a lot of facts about Mitt in here that make him seem both human and scary. Excellent job, MoJo.
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“England is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few...”
– Mitt Romney
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,”
– Neil Newhouse, Mitt Romney pollster, at the 2012 RNC.
“Nope, we just don’t care about the facts.” - an adult human being
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“… to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech...”
– Paul Ryan’s speech in 3 words | Fox News
Fox News (Fox fucking News!!!) calls out Paul Ryan for lying repeatedly during his RNC speech.
“Soon: corporate branded naming rights to hurricanes.”
– JR
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“Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions.
for Ann Romney.
How journalists helped stabilize a new Colombia →
futurejournalismproject:
fjp-latinamerica:
CJR’s Justin D. Martin posted today an interesting article about the regeneration of Colombia through international coverage and the role that journalists have played to that effect.
Via Columbia Journalism Review:
Michael LaRosa and German Mejia wrote in a 2012 history of the country: “Global media have shifted significantly in the way they cover...
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“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
Meet the Dude Who Inspired ‘The Dude’ in the Coen Brothers’ ‘The Big Lebowski’
Since its release in 1998, The Big Lebowski has become a cult classic, spawning fan conventions (Lebowski Fests) across the U.S. There, superfans might have a chance to meet the guy Jeff Bridges’s character, Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, is based on: Jeff Dowd. This documentary portrait by Jeff...
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“Write drunk, edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Frank Sinatra My Way
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I may have just signed up to Spotifuckingfy just...