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53 days ago by Tito

Bogus quote entered into wikipedia. “Journalists” around the globe cut-n-paste. Wikipedia fixes error. Newspapers, not so much. So far, The Guardian is the only publication to make a public mea culpa, while others have eliminated or amended their online obituaries without any reference to the origin ...

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127 days ago by Tito

I’m a sucker for the Universal Newsreels youtube channel. Always amusing to get my daily dose of propoganda 50+ years ex post facto. So it’s with a smidgen of curmudgeonly delight that I revel in viewing this recitation of the pledge of allegiance in 1941 before the “under God” clause was added 1 in ...

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127 days ago by Tito

I think Roger Ebert’s blog may be the best thing going these days. Now another typically excellent essay in which he writes now is the time “to put away childish things” and “inspire more appreciation than ridicule”. Snarking has been part of the air we breathe for a long time. It is said to have en ...

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141 days ago by Tito

“This is a grand celebration for a man whose Theory of Evolution promoted atheism, inspired Hitler’s genocides, and thinks your grandfather was a monkey.” - Roger Ebert on the upcoming 200th birthday of Charles Darwin

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147 days ago by Tito

Dear Internet, Please make a soundboard of these Obama MP3’s which I found over here via over there. obama_blam obama_complicated obama_fries obama_ignorant obama_number obama_that_guy UPDATE: And boom goes the proverbial dynamite: http://obamasoundoff.com/

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156 days ago by Tito

Ye Olde Hagge sayeth: The web gets a lot of credit for sharing, but that’s because the people who invented the web have to find creative ways to make it sound amazing. But when you send someone an email with an article you think they should read, you might as well have interrupted their morning meet ...

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158 days ago by Tito

I hadn’t been aware that there were different versions of Native Son. So now, I have as good a reason as any to re-read the book. In the meantime, I’ll think a bit on the question of when “editing” ends and “expurgation” begins. Reading through the appendix, as it turns out the book was originally p ...

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162 days ago by Tito

my sugimoto, originally uploaded by bigoteetoe. (More at The Telegraph)

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