six degrees of peter feld

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Yo dawg. I heard you like religious intrusion in government affairs, so I put some religious intrusion in our health care bill so you can intrude on women’s right to choose while you provide health care to the needy. inothernews: The New York Times uses this photo, of President Obama shaking Boston Archbishop Sean Cardinal O’Malley’s hands at funeral services for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy earlier this year, to illustrate their story today on how the Catholic Church helped get anti-abortion provisions into the House’s healthcare bill. Very conspiratorial, no?  Even if the photo doesn’t really have anything to do with the events of Saturday evening. (I personally thought this little meeting happened yesterday before I read the full caption on the click-through.) (Pool photo by Brian Snyder via the New York Times)

Yo dawg. I heard you like religious intrusion in government affairs, so I put some religious intrusion in our health care bill so you can intrude on women’s right to choose while you provide health care to the needy.

inothernews:

The New York Times uses this photo, of President Obama shaking Boston Archbishop Sean Cardinal O’Malley’s hands at funeral services for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy earlier this year, to illustrate their story today on how the Catholic Church helped get anti-abortion provisions into the House’s healthcare bill.

Very conspiratorial, no?  Even if the photo doesn’t really have anything to do with the events of Saturday evening. (I personally thought this little meeting happened yesterday before I read the full caption on the click-through.)

(Pool photo by Brian Snyder via the New York Times)

Beinart: The Berlin Wall fell not because Reagan was a hawk, but because he had turned into a dove. 

Oh, great. One year after voting to make it illegal, a majority of California voters now favors gay marriage. But a bigger majority opposes putting it back on the ballot next year.

Someone will remind us that guns don't kill people. People kill people. Right?

(via inothernews)

Right. People with guns.

“ When your first reaction to tragic events is to consider how they might support your politics, it’s time to go for a nice long walk. ”

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nickmcglynn:

I’m at Starbucks - 67th (154 Columbus Avenue, 67th St, New York). http://bit.ly/sbFoE

Hopefully this doesn’t count toward unlocking “crunked.”

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Just ignore "trending topics"

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bringonthetragedy:

i would say that in my everyday life, i’m a pretty big twitter defender.

every once in a while, someone comes along and says “oh man, haha twitter. what, so you just go around typing ‘i’m eating a sandwich! i’m in the bathroom now! i’m at work!’ all day long and pretend that people give a shit?

the short answer, i suppose, is yes. but really it’s about community and finding common threads of interest and making connections with people and it’s this really great thing that i believe has a lot of potential.

but then i look over at the trending topics and see things like “KEEP THE WAVE GOING” that i realize i’m totally wrong.

we’re a bunch of fucking idiot dullards shouting out into the empty nothingspace and no one cares and we’re all delusional.

On the other hand, I’m generally a Twitter basher, but this is a bad rap. I repeat for the xxth time: TRENDING TOPICS MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING (if your goal is to find out what a lot of people are discussing). It simply refers to a rapid rate of increase in some topic that may have been previously microscopically tiny and is now merely very small. It is a measure of velocity. On occasion, that can be interesting, but in no way does it reflect a majority - or even a very large minority - of the activity on Twitter. If you see something stupid on Trending Topics, don’t assume it characterizes the user base.

john:

Take the parade to Yankee Stadium, save the big ‘Canyon of Heroes’ show for epic national events (wars won) and true heroes (U.S. astronauts first on the moon).

I think that ship has sailed. (Both of them, actually.)

Whole Foods Caught In A Free Fall 

See what happens when you enrage your liberal customer base by trying to block health care reform!

venezianijournal:

Shares of Whole Foods (WFMI) are plummeting this morning as the company announced lower-than-expected earnings per share of $1.05 to $1.10. The Street’s estimate was for $1.11, which has caused a…

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fek: youngmanhattanite: We got a book deal. Alternately: “I Used To Be On FameGame.” “This Is Why You’re Feh”

fek:

youngmanhattanite:

We got a book deal.

Alternately: “I Used To Be On FameGame.”

“This Is Why You’re Feh”

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I just realized

What’s the opposite of the Working Families party? Obliterati! The party for unemployed singles.

Alex Pareene:

To sum up our feelings this morning: fuck the New York Democratic Party, fuck Christine Quinn, fuck Barack Obama, fuck Valerie Jarrett, fuck Anthony Weiner, hard, and, in closing, fuck Howard Wolfson and his fucking Cosby sweaters and his fucking boring taste in fucking terrible indie music. (And fuck Jimmy Fallon.)

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