Yahoo: Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income. The latest census data depict a middle class that’s shrinking as unemployment stays high and the government’s safety net frays. The new [...]
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I wonder if Fred Frisby would have been as eager to stick his fist in the face of someone who was younger, broader, and more well-muscled.
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Rush Limbaugh: If you feed them, if you feed the children three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer?… Okay, the school ends, and of course, how can we expect them to feed themselves in the summer, when they haven’t had to for [...]
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As we know, Newt Gingrich, the current GOP frontrunner has doubled down on his idea of getting rid of all those dumb ol’ child labor laws and paying grammar school students to clean toilets and occasionally mop up vomit in the hallways. (We know we can depend on their little classmates to be mature about [...]
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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, on the eviction of the LA OWS: In my life I’ve never seen a more professional, restrained police force under very, very trying circumstances as I witnessed today…This may be the finest moment in LAPD history. Actual account by one of those OWS demonstrators: Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused [...]
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Salon posts a revealing account of the Occupation of Joe Walsh’s office. Especially entertaining is the account of Walsh’s efforts to evade actually having to come face to face with some jobless Americans: …Finally, at around 3:20, Walsh darted out of a side door. Uetricht, Green and I took chase, hoping to catch the congressman. [...]
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Unnamed top Mitt Romney operative responding to the outrage over an ad that deceptively edited comments made by President Obama: First of all, ads are propaganda by definition. We are in the persuasion business, the propaganda business…. Ads are agitprop…. Ads are about hyperbole, they are about editing. It’s ludicrous for them to say that [...]
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OBN’s approach to its online enemies is one I first encountered on old Usenet forums. Act as offensive as humanly possible, antagonize an opponent into losing his or her temper and responding in kind, then righteously report the response to the authorities.
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It’s well past the time to discard the blasé, eye-rolling dismissal, “Oh, it’s just the Internet,” when people like Mary find themselves targeted in this manner.
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