June 2009
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Why is it that a fake news show on a comedy channel can showcase a calm, intelligent conversation between two sides on such a complicated issue as abortion, but no American news network can?
As for my own views on the subject, I think I have worked out a compromise - because as Jon said, neither side will budge completely, so the only solution is to create a...
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“In general, we do not allow graphic or gratuitous violence on YouTube,” the...”
– Stark Images, Uploaded to the World - NYTimes.com
This is big. Between this and the Obama Administration asking Twitter to delay an update so that protesting Iranians can keep on tweeting, the limitations of censorship are crumbling thanks to the Internet and the ever-increasing participation of...
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“My admittedly strange opinion is that we need to try harder with print. We can’t...”
– Dave Eggers
Maybe because I’m involved in both worlds, but again and again I can’t help but grasp the parallels between the music industry and the newspaper industry. Like in this quote by Dave Eggers, I can clearly see one way the latter can go.
Mp3s did not kill the CD. Hell, the CD...
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Why is this such a difficult concept to...
If you’re against abortions, don’t have one. If you’re against gay marriage, don’t marry someone of the same sex. And if you don’t have a vagina you should have no say regarding the first point; if you only like boning members of the opposite sex you should have no say regarding the second point. End of discussion.