December 2010
My Letter to the NYTimes Public Editor re: the...
Dear Mr. Brisbane~
A good friend who has worked several years in publishing once told me that fans of heavy metal music love to complain that their favored genre doesn’t receive the same quantity or quality of coverage as other genres.
As a metal fan, when I heard his statement, I was shocked. For one, it’s simply not true.
Faced with the choice between due credit for the many...
“I think the media story of the year, in 2010, was the New York Times’ discovery...”
– NBC’s Brian Williams on “Morning Joe,” via The Atlantic Wire. (via langer)
I’ve already posted the video, but these words bear repeating.
(via kateoplis)
A national news anchor in New York went on his corporate partner’s station to chide at NYC-based paper for over-covering a part of NYC? ...
My Letter to the NYTimes Public Editor re: the...
Dear Mr. Brisbane~
A good friend who has worked several years in publishing once told me that fans of heavy metal music love to complain that their favored genre doesn’t receive the same quantity or quality of coverage as other genres.
As a metal fan, when I heard his statement, I was shocked. For one, it’s simply not true.
Faced with the choice between due credit for the many...
mediation's top records of the year
1-10. The Sword — Warp Riders
Stuff about Minneapolis: 2010 Twin Cities Tumblrs... →
stuffaboutminneapolis:
So the year is ending soon, and every day you see a “Best Of” or “Year In Review” list that comes out and tells you who the top folks in selected talents are. Well, I decided to do just that myself, and highlight folks in the Twin Cities who have Tumblr blogs. I took ten categories from the Tumblr…
“Minnesota has changed. Once a site for top notch education, well-kept...”
– History professor, Peter Rachleff, answering the question “Why do the otherwise eminently sane people of the Twin Cities leap to the land of conspiracy?” by Dave Zirin from “When Domes Collapse: Minnesota’s Sporting Shock Doctrine” (via bigboxcar)
Joel: Tumblr is very difficult to understand if you don't know Tumblr.
Me: So is Chinese.
“[The Obama/Republican] tax deal, frankly and unequivocally, is the result of a...”
– Bernie Sanders Puts Barack Obama to Shame | Rolling Stone Politics (via atomrobinson)
my response:
Watchthis is so awesome.
I’d also add that the way mathematics is taught also doesn’t lend itself to students understanding the fundamental differences in the branches or the foundational assumptions behind each branch. Group Theory, for example, is a very integral part to mathematical operations — and is super fucking cool — but isn’t discussed in the robotic...
“Insiders questioned the wisdom of choosing a venue which collapsed over the...”
– Andy Borowitz: Democrats Move 2012 Convention to Metrodome (via perfectporridge)
““I think a lot of these people are not relevant politically,” Sutton said. “They...”
– POLITICO looks at the MN franchise of the new Republican Party. A couple things: wasn’t Al Quie actually in office alongside Reagan? (Ed. note: Quie was governor from ‘79-‘83, Reagan ‘81-‘83.) So Minnesota’s GOP waited 30 years to become a Reagan Republican...
To show my support for Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)...
“Dayton is a comeback king:
This is another point that Jacobs made in our...”
– Eric Black, from “Thoughts on the first day of the post-recount era” (via minnpost)
Wait, didn’t Dayton come into the race with a major automatic name recognition and a huge self-funded war chest and strong poll numbers, and then lead in the polling even going into and out of the primary? ...
“The left, meanwhile, is unhappy with Obama’s comparatively massive political...”
– Mike Barthel, “‘Operation Bristol’ Just Does Not Exist” (The Awl)
Masters of a very particular skill set, indeed. While it’s true that there’s a huge disparity between measuring politics based off of accomplishments instead of sentiment, don’t forget Barry had the White House and...
Chuck Klosterman is Like Modern Society and a...
A few people have emailed over Chuck Klosterman’s NYTimes piece on America’s enthusiasm for zombies and asked what I thought about it.
Short answer: I don’t care for any Klosterman’s writing, and this piece didn’t buck the trend just because the subject matter is close to home.
The longer answer is that Klosterman has made a good career out of passing off idiotic...
“I don’t know about you but I’ve not been so excited about bacteria...”
– a pretty solid line from this post on the new ground-breaking arsenic-based life form discovery
“In my experience, being an artist consists mainly of two things:
*...”
– from Andy’s take on the Steve Martin/Solomon/92 Street Y episode
“I need the Knight Foundation to stake my scheme to become a high-tech, online,...”
– The Pioneer Press Prediction Project - Knight2010Applications (via tomelko)
WOW.
“Give an unemployed person a dollar, and she tends to spend it, because she needs...”
– It turns out that giving unemployed people a little money is the best way to help get the economy back on track. This is, of course, the exact opposite of what the Republican obstructionists are preaching — that rich people go out and hire when they get the tax cuts they paid for this past...
