June 2011
237 posts
“So when the GOP’s economic policy team sat down to make the strongest case they could for growth-inducing deficit reduction, they recommended a mix an 85:15 mix, not a 100:0 mix. And then, when the Obama administration agreed to an 83:17 mix, the Republican leadership walked out of the room and demanded that taxes be excluded from the deal altogether. How do you negotiate with that?”
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Ezra Klein asks the right questions. (via lemkin)
As I noted in a previous post, you can’t negotiate with “no.”
(via politicalprof)
ShortFormBlog: The Senate's skipping its upcoming recess, working straight through →
shortformblog.tumblr.com
All because of that pesky debt ceiling thing: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that the only fireworks members of the Senate would see next week would be strictly of the political kind — all in an effort to solve the pesky debt ceiling issue that’s been dogging Congress for a couple…
Are Uganda's deadly lightning strikes becoming more common? →
csmonitor.com
Lightning struck a primary school in Uganda killing 20 pupils and injuring almost 100 more on Tuesday, officials say. It’s the latest in a spate of lightning strikes that have killed more than 40 nationwide.
So, who wants a Google+ invite?
If so, send me a message with your email and I’ll send it over.
I need your help, Tumblr. It'll only take a second. →
digitaltrends.com
My friend and colleague Jeffery Van Camp and I wrote “dueling columns” on Digital Trends today. I wrote “Five reasons Google+ will fail,” he wrote why it will succeed. I’m trying to kick his ass on Facebook Likes. Unfortunately, right now he’s ahead by about 10 points.
So if you’re bored and up for it, just click the link, and Like it. And, while you’re there, if you want to, you can read it, too :-)
/shameless self-promotion
EDIT: Shit, the link to JVC’s was fucked up in the actual post, too. Not sure what happened there. Fixed now!
ARTE en Maquina de Escribir
Keira Rathbone la artista de maquina de escribir. Es británica y tiene solo 27 años. Posee una gran coleccion de maquinas de escribir que usa para crear arte. Imagenes que han salido en portada de revistas, he incluso diseños para estampar en camisetas.
