March 2011
Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: The best journalism-job want ad ever ever. →
motherjones.tumblr.com
You should, like, strongly consider applying to work for this guy:
We want to add some talent to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune investigative team. Every serious candidate should have a proven track record of conceiving, reporting and writing stellar investigative pieces that provoke change….
"Several reports have emerged that China is cutting off phone calls mid-sentence when contentious words like 'protest' are used." →
nytimes.com
Reducto: Every conversation is scanned for key words. Here, give me your phone, I’ll show you.
Harvey: Umm…
Reducto: [speaks into the phone] Hello. Mail bomb.
Harvey: Uh, heh… um…
Reducto: Assassination.
Harvey: Hey, can I have that back? I just remembered…
Reducto: Fertilizer.
Harvey: …I’m almost out of minutes.
Reducto: Same-sex marriages. Patagonia. Nader for President.
Harvey: See, nothing happened. Nobody’s monitoring these things!
Phil: [watching them on the security camera] Huh, I always took Reducto for a libertarian.
Why Easter stubbornly resists the commercialism that swallowed Christmas →
slate.com
The movie Hop brought this 2008 Slate article immediately to mind. Does the argument still hold water? Is Easter starting to fall? I never sat on the Easter Bunny’s lap at the local mall to have my picture taken, and apparently that’s a thing now.
O DANZIG, U SO CRAY CRAY →
metalinjection.net
“I CANNOT LIVE WITH THAT GUY. HE IS SO ANNOYING, HE IS SO FRIGHTENING, AND HE DOESN’T WEAR A SHIRT.”
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