Paul Schreiber

robewaschuk:

wssrstrm:

motherjones:

Chart of the day. Full data here.

FIX IT

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michael:

markcoatney:

The more you know. 

Oh America … No more “F*ck Yeah”s for you …

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That’s what Obama said about CNN at last night’s White House Correspondents Association dinner.

Let me explain why that is such a great line. CNN sees itself as “in the middle” between left and right, MSNBC and Fox. Just recently, in fact, CNN president Jeff Zucker praised the middle as the place to be. But CNN also sees itself as a great newsgathering organization that is all about truthtelling rather than ideology. “Keeping them honest,” as Anderson Cooper, face of the brand, likes to say. 

Put them together and what do you have? Keep ‘em honest, but stay in the middle. Which doesn’t work. For what happens when one side is BS-ing us more than the other? What happens when independent and honest reporting shows that these people on this side are mostly right in what they’re saying, and those people on that side are distorting the case?

CNN wants to believe, tries to believe and I think does believe that this problem does not exist. Therefore we have to remind them about it, because it does exist. And that’s what Obama did: “cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate” is saying to CNN: Accuracy and truthtelling will be sacrificed to your ideology— the middle, no matter what it takes.

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robewaschuk:

intsunny:

somethinginparticular:

nycgov:

Today Mayor Bloomberg announced the expansion of the City’s recycling program to include for the first time the recycling of all rigid plastics including toys, hangers, shampoo bottles, coffee cups and food containers.

The expansion is part of the City’s Solid Waste Management Plan and is…

Woooooo!

HOTNESS!!!

Yay!!

Yay!!

robewaschuk:

For future reference: this is for Juliet’s creation of awesome photo books via MyPublisher.  You need ExifTool (Found some nice OS X install instructions).

for i in *.jpg *.JPG; do mv "$i" `exiftool "$i"  | grep "Create Date" | awk '{ print $4 , $5}' | tr : - | tr ' ' -`.jpg; done

You don’t need exiftool. You can use spotlight for it. mdls foo.jpg | grep kMDItemContentCreationDate — note that this is in UTC.

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girleatmachine:

When you stop caring, when you fail to realize that the allocation of your attention and care are the fundamental fuel of your experience, they win. 

Fight them.

pollyammo:

vicemag:

Koch: I wanted to get rid of New York’s graffiti problem, but I wasn’t in charge of the subways, the MTA was. I called the MTA into City Hall and told them they had to get rid of the graffiti. I presented them with a plan to do it: Kids were spray-painting train cars in the yards at night because there weren’t any fences. I told them, just put up a fence and put some dogs inside. They got scared, worried that the dogs would bite people, so I said, “OK, if you don’t want any chance of dogs biting people, get wolves.” That’s the problem with the new Liam Neeson movie, The Grey. There’s no recorded case of a wild wolf ever having bitten or attacked a single human being in North America.

I don’t believe that.
Well, it’s true. The next day Clyde Haberman of the New York Times came to me and told me he’d checked my statement and that there are records of domesticated wolves biting humans. I said, “I know that! I’m not talking about a domesticated wolf. I’m talking about wild wolves. Let’s have wild wolves protect the trains. If the wild wolves become tame, replace them with more wild ones.”

So you recommended that the MTA fight graffiti with wild wolves?
Yes. 

—Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch has died at 88. We spoke with him in 2012.

New Yorkers. They get the job done.

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