I admit it. I gave up on Blackberry (RIM) some time ago. But how funny is this video just released by its new executive team. The REO Speedwagon parody urges Blackberry users to remain patient for the supposed company-saving Blackberry 10 software coming out in the first quarter of 2013. This video has been widely panned. I love it. […]
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Obama’s Debt Whiff
I hate when people say, ” Can you imagine if x had said that?! Huh…huh. Can you imagine.” But can you imagine if Mitt Romney had no idea of the size of the federal debt? Somehow, there wasn’t so much follow up to this one.
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Get your bow; get your arrows: It’s open season on Mitt Romney. Much of the news media isn’t even pretending anymore. With 49 days to go before the election, we are witnessing an old-fashioned game of kill-the-carrier, with a football sewn into Romney’s jersey. The Republican candidate cannot come to his feet before being hit, again and again. […]
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A liberal, the poet Robert Frost once said, is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. That seems to be what Mitt Romney was going for this week when he criticized the Obama State Department for trying to placate protesters in Cairo. Where it might have demanded from the wide […]
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Terrific article on the college bubble in The Daily Beast, if you’re interested.
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Four years ago I asked a 21-year-old colleague, a self- proclaimed apolitical, why she was so hellbent on voting forBarack Obama. “You had Ronald Reagan,” she explained. “The first president I’ve really known is George W. Bush. My generation grew up being told that the U.S. is number one — that we are the best […]
Read the rest of this entry »Send Nevin Yildirim to Albany
Two striking stories of sexual abuse in the news: One springs from Albany, N.Y. The other from 5,000 miles away, in Turkey’s remote Yalvac district. Rural Yalvac covers 550 square miles with a population about the size of Levittown or White Plains. So what could have happened in a Yalvac, Turkey that would make international […]
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