The Significance of the Presidential Selfie
ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images I have been watching the media and social media expound over the Presidential Selfie taken at Nelson Mandela’s Memorial Service and wondering if all the hubbub was not...
View ArticleAn Oliphant Always Forgets
This was once a reporter, before pulling a Sharyl Attkisson. click for larger I will ladle out the swill undiluted for a paragraph or so: Progressive Bloggers Are Doing the White House’s Job James...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Pelosis
There are 33 days and change until the November 4 election as I write this. I will try to keep this brief and to the point — which, Progressives, IS the point. The Republicans are running on their...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s Campaign Scores Big on Day One with Social Media
Word has it from Hillary Clinton’s camp that her announcement brought in some very impressive numbers in social media views in the first 24 hours of the campaign. The campaign announcement scored big...
View ArticleThe Limits of Privacy
PRIVACY! scream advocates of privacy, and normally I’d be with them. Apple Unlocked iPhones for the Feds 70 Times Before Shane Harris / The Daily Beast Apple CEO Tim Cook declared on Wednesday that...
View ArticleI Thought the GOP was AGAINST Big Government
The Senate Commerce Committee has demanded that Facebook ‘splain themselves in the face of reports that conservatives were being picked on, er, censored, er, whatever. As in: for all their screeching...
View ArticleThe Great Gawker Lie
Gawker is dead. It is dead because they decided, cruelly, to “out” a wealthy gay man, and then foolishly decided to publish a stolen sex tape from a public figure and then refused to take it down...
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