This week on #thepete #podcast: how #society is #failing us

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motherjones:

cognitivedissonance:

Michelle Malkin makes the claim that Occupy Wall Street is 99% white. It hurts my irony bone for someone on Fox News to criticize a social movement for being “99% white.” It hurts real bad.

According to Malkin:

“The protesters have taken to calling themselves the ‘99 percent’ in the country, labeling the capitalists they wish to remove from power the other ‘1 percent.’ When Occupy Wall Street activists call themselves the ‘99 percent,’ it turns out they mean 99 percent non-diverse (by their own politically correct measurements). It’s as pale out there at Camp Alinsky as MSNBC’s prime-time lineup or the New York Times editorial board. Not counting the cameos by Jesse Jackson and Cornel West, that is.”

Uh-huh… love the photo choice showing a rather diverse crowd, Fox Nation. I don’t need to debunk your claim since you, um, did it yourselves.

Bravo.

h/t to Media Matters

 Oh, Malkin, you race-baiting fact-mangler, you.

Just turn OFF the GOD DAMN TV, ALREADY.

The End of Google Wave, I totally called it...

So, on August 3, 2010, I tweeted the following:



“Does anybody remember this thing called “Google Wave” or how we were so excited about it?” 1:25 PM Aug 3rd


The next day, on August 4, 2010, the Google Blog announced:

…Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product…

I know, I know, it was a little obvious that Wave was failing, I just thought it was cool that I happened to mention it the day before it was officially discontinued.

I GOT MY FINGER ON THE PULSE OF THE INTERNETS!!  … or something like that…

What’s funny is that I now find myself thinking of gMail more like I thought of Wave, the few times I used it, anyway.  I make sure the subject is relevant to what I’m emailing about and I find myself sticking to one topic in the email to make the entire “gMail conversation” a single unit.

…Interesting…

OH yeah—anybody wanna take bets on when we’ll see Buzz buzz-off?