Kylie just posted Google’s “Zeitgeist” year-in-review video, and I was intrigued. Obviously, its content is loosely based on what people searched for on Google during 2012, and yes, it has a hopeful and inspirational bent, as one would expect, but I was struck by how, well, realistic it was about what actually went down this …
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Dec 12 2012
The Earth Will Be Peopled by Entirely Another Generation
Yes, they cared about this a hundred years ago, too. From the New York Times, December 12, 1912: For those who delight in that sort of amusement to-day is a day to celebrate by writing a great many letters and dating them, each and every one, 12–12–12. The sequence of the twelves makes positively a …
Aug 30 2012
Cowards at Yahoo News Give Wingnut Hacks a Scalp
David Chalian was fired by Yahoo News yesterday because he was caught saying something unflattering about the Romneys and their pals by NewsBusters. This is absolute bullshit. David was my direct supervisor when I interned at the ABC News political unit, where he was first deputy political director, and then promoted to director. He then …
Dec 26 2011
Unnecessary Nostalgia for the Idiot Box
Almost a year ago, the New Yorker published a piece by Adam Gropnik digesting various tomes about what the Internet was doing to us as a culture, ranging from the folks who saw it as the coming of paradise to the coming of the end times. One recurring theme with those who saw the Internet as a net negative, …
Nov 17 2011
Those Delightful Social Media Squirts
Michael Erard tells the tale of his avoidance of indulging in the trope he calls the Social Media Exile Essay, a report never written of his exit from Facebook: … I wrote a draft of an essay about writing about why I quit Facebook, which was clever but did not contain any of the things I have already said I didn’t write …
Jul 01 2011
In Defense of Mark Halperin
I’ve been metaphorically bashing my skull into a brick wall as I’ve read all the commentary surrounding Mark Halperin’s “dick” comment this morning. The reaction to this has been absurd on so many levels, and as someone who once worked under his supervision, I very much want to say a few things about this — which of …
Oct 17 2010
I’m More Interested in Whether Being a Douche is a Choice
Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Colorado, Ken Buck, made a little news today saying on Meet the Press that he believes that being gay is “a choice,” and that homosexuality may be akin to alcoholism in that some can be predisposed to it from birth. His opponent, incumbent (and appointed) senator Michael Bennett, asserted this placed …
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