Mike Hudack

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White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs gets destroyed by Chip Reid of CBS and Helen Thomas of Hearst News Service about the faux transparency of the govt. He should get fired for his poor smirky response.

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Can you imagine the chaos of a truly open forum? Where anyone can walk off the street and ask any question? I’d pay to see that! “Mr. President, when are you going to announce the presence of UFOs at Area 51?”

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nevver:

July 4th, 1983

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I’m at Cafe gitaine.

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“ QUANTIFYING EMBARRASSMENT:
Recently, the researchers at Last.fm published a list of the ‘most unwanted scrobbles‘. This is a list of tracks that were most frequently deleted by the Last.fm community from their scrobbles in the last month.

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Collecting all the artists from the pages we can build a list of artists that have frequently had their scrobbles deleted:

Lady GaGa
Britney Spears
Katy Perry
Rihanna
Paramore
Coldplay
Taylor Swift
Beyoncé
Avril Lavigne
Marc Seales, composer. New Stories. Ernie Watts, saxophone
Alexander Rybak
Black Eyed Peas
Kings of Leon
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Linkin Park
Korn
Miley Cyrus
Jason Mraz
Metro Station
Leona Lewis
Green Day
Evanescence
Amy Whinehouse
Oasis
Nelly Furtado

The Coolness Index « Music Machinery

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nickdouglas:

I SUGGEST YOU LIKE THIS

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I'm guessing that for the young educated adults of the 60's and 70's, for whom the ultimate horror was the hypocritical conformity and repression of their own parents' generation, Mr. Updike's evocation of the libidinous self appeared redemptive and even heroic. But the young educated adults of the 90's-who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully-got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40's have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.

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“ The complaint about Zelaya from the people who have taken over the country was that the legitimately elected president of Honduras wanted to hold an advisory referendum on whether to consider altering the constitution to allow elected executives to serve two terms. In order to prevent the referendum vote, the coup kidnapped an elected president, spirited him out of the country and installed a new unelected president. Then they suspended civil liberties. Outside of an Orwellian novel, or the mid-day slot on talk radio stations, some basic principles still apply: Getting elected. Organizing referendums. Proposing constitutional amendments. These are the sorts of things that happen in a country that is experiencing democracy. Kidnapping the president. Installing an unelected strongman. Suspending civil liberties. These are the sorts of things that happen in a country that is experiencing a coup.

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John Nichols (via azspot) (via retropolitics)

When you put it that way, maybe. But as I understand it the entire civilian power structure outside the president himself had ruled that the referendum was illegal and unconstitutional. I don’t think that the president was such an innocent actor here, based on what I’ve read. And I think that the rest of the government had exhausted all options other than force: the Attorney General, the military, the Supreme Court, the Congress… they had all told him to cut it out. Right?

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I’m at Iggy’s Keltic Lounge (132 Ludlow St, btw Rivington & Stanton, New York). http://bit.ly/5Rr6D

Cool.

I’m at Thailand Cafe (95 2nd Ave, 2nd Ave and East 5th Street , New York). http://bit.ly/l4439