September 2011
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Correcting the New York Times's Abysmal Occupy...
Allison Kilkenny on September 26, 2011 - 9:06am ET
Over the weekend, my inbox exploded with angry messages from people who had just read this New York Times article (though it reads more like an op-ed) about the Occupy Wall Street protest. Ginia Bellafante gives a devastating account of the event’s attendees, depicting them as scatterbrained, sometimes borderline psychotic transients.
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thanks for the inspiration rafi
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Oh, Rohin! - Prose, pop, and probably little else:... →
ohrohin:
From the time the news broke on Twitter about the SCOTUS’ refusal to stay Troy Davis’ execution to the actual event occurring tonight, there were a cluster of other trending topics that I think forecasts a climate that needs to be talked about—essentially, “Simon Cowell”, “Cheryl Cole”, “LA Reid”…
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Hot Off The Press: Really heartbroken right now... →
jordanleev:
The NC Senate just passed the “Defense of Marriage” bill that the House passed yesterday. So the measure will go on the ballot in May for the primaries.
If the amendment would go on the ballot in November during the main election, we’d have a shot of voting this thing down. The majority of…
#preach
