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Goddammit are rich people still getting rich these days? Observe: Google’s top four executives received million-dollar-plus bonuses last year — a truly repulsive amount when everybody else in the country is starving. Wait, what’s that you say? They haven’t asked for a bailout yet? WELL BUT STILL. [AP]
It appears that Joe Biden’s comical inability to name his administration’s major new website is rooted in a far more fundamental technological illiteracy: he cannot tell the difference between the Internet and a telephone. [YouTube via Daily Intel]
Look, when Joe Biden was growing up in Scranton, all the local guys — classy ones, they had CLASS back then — would end their damn websites with the same damn thing, “.com,” alright? They didn’t have any of this pansy ass “.gov” or “.org” or “.edu” or “.whateverthegoddamnthing” monkey business; it was either “.com” [...]
Senatorial daughter and children’s propaganda author Meghan McCain still appears to be getting paychecks from The Daily Beast for her random thoughts about her dad’s campaign, which most Americans have already forgotten. In today’s blog article, Meghan chimes in on the recent chatter about Republicans trying to carve out their own Internets — be it [...]
The Washington Times writes with great exuberance today about how congressional Republicans are “winning” when it comes to Twitter, the terrible Internet thing. “Republicans finally get it,” the Times ominously opens, “and have jumped on Internet technology in hopes of dominating it in the same way they used talk radio in the early 1990s to [...]
David Brooks allows a made-up reader to address him as “Mr. Kierkegaard” today in his column. Here is what “Existential in Exeter” asks Søren Kierkegaard, who is David Brooks, about Culture: “All my life I’ve been a successful pseudo-intellectual, sprinkling quotations from Kafka, Epictetus and Derrida into my conversations, impressing dates and making my friends [...]
Oh come now, will everyone please stop pickin’ on poor John McCain for his limited knowledge of the future techmologies? This is something that irks political writers on the Internet to a strange degree (probably because it means McCain cannot give them page views.) Even McCain’s best friend Jon Chait of The New Republic has [...]
It has been merely a HALF-YEAR since John McCain locked up the Republican nomination, and his team has somehow found the time to develop an online grassroots strategy between those 20-person town halls in nowhere that it holds every other day. From campaign manager Rick Davis’ email client, he writes, “Through the McCain Nation online [...]
Some company called the Markham Group, which organized political events for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, has bought the domain HRC2012.com. Obviously this means that Hillary Clinton still plans on sabotaging Barack Obama’s presidential bid by sending a complimentary copy of the New Yorker to every resident of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Indiana, so that John [...]
A Children’s Treasury Of Polite, Intelligent Threaded Comments On Change.gov
by Jim Newell
We read somewhere, here, that Obama’s transition website, Change.gov, was getting pretty Internettish these days. This is Obama’s thing, he does it all the time: using standard Internet crap — stuff that other politicians somehow haven’t discovered — to help his readers connect and engage one another on the issues important to them (and possibly [...]