when twitter met facebook the acquisition deal that failwhaled kara swisher boomtown about three weeks ago facebook and twitter ended several weeks of serious talks in which facebook was offering to acquire twitter for 500 million of its stock which also included a cash component. tags twitter facebook mergers an d acquisit ions what wrongs with web video ad......
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i know none of you are 13yearold girls but did any of you see twilight this weekend its a movie about vampire love based on the harry potterforgirls blockbuster series by stephenie meyer a mormon mom. i loved it but what struck continue reading......
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the uk is proposing a new law stating that any sex with a prostitute later shown to be working in the sex trade involuntarily is per se rape possibly punishable by life in prison. johns will be prohibited from claiming ignorance of the prostitutes status in their defense. in a society where prostitution were legal open and market regulated this sort of law would make some sense. un......
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why were not one nation under god. by david greenberg slate magazine the pledge of allegiance why were not one nation under god. by david greenberg updated friday june 28 2002 at 439 pm et poor alfred goodwin so torrential was the flood of condemnation that followed his opinionwhich held that its unconstitutional for public sch......
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hillary clintons name has come up as a possible secretary of state in the obama administration. slates emily yoffe muses i wonder if the obama administration would waive the 63item questionnaire all potential administration officials are required to fill out before naming hillary secretary of state. there are so many questions that might be troublesome from no. 6 concerning......
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future imperfect author david friedman recently spoke at the cato institute in dc. slates william saletan attended and he seemed to have enjoyed himself. anyone whos watched friedman lecture will see how entertaining and engaging he can be. check back soon ill post the audio from cato once theyve compiled it. the future as we dont know it ......
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a washington welcome to the obama family marjorie williams slate the city happily absorbs its quadrennial infusions of new blood. but washington always does more to change its newcomers than the newcomers do to change it. tags washington dc obamas muscle christopher beam slate rahm emanuel fits the mold of the ruthlessly efficient underlings obama tends to hir......
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john leonard has died.a i want around to read the new york times book review section when he was running things so i mostly knew him as the guy who wrote the new books column for harpers an informed and highly entertaining ramble which invariably caused my already teetering to read pile to grow to dangerous new heights every month. the breadth of ......
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just the other day i was watching the tube and i scrolled around the guide for the movie channels.a i then see that the movie man on fire is on.a so im thinking solid movie havent seen it in a while lets turn it on. all of a sudden im watching danny aiello and dennis hoppera wait a second theyre not in the movie man on fire.a actually.a ......
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i love the slate political gabfest as does molly and this week one of the guests hanna rosin talked about toggling between the last debate and the project runway finale as i did. her main point was that bratty kenley got treated differently than the equally obnoxious men in previous seasons. i dont think she should have won but i do think there is no doubt that she was tr......
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this week in excruciating comeback narratives as if by script the red sox yawned through another dramatic gritty rousing clutch gritty rousing comeback and will now certainly go on to win the world series and the rest of the baseball world will have to put up with this nevergiveup grinditout noothert eamplays hardexcep tus narrative for another year. umass gets budgetari......
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when a presidential candidate tells millions of viewers that an organization may be destroying the fabric of democracy ano one should be surprised by developments such as this .a irresponsible accusations can have much farther reaching consequences than simply garnering more votes for your side.......
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as sam observes obama looked deliberate and presidential in last nights debate while john mccain looked jerky and occasionally wildeyed. mccain was already writing notes on his pad when moderator bob schieffer was doing the introductions had something occurred to him that hadnt come up in the days of debate prep beforehand. the twoshots were particularly revealin......
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radio nationals book show has an interview with the engaging title of books to read to children during financial ruin. the guest is american erica perl who seems to specialise in these sort of things. the podcast will be available for a short time only. authored by judij . hosted by edublogs .......
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today during a campaign stop in la crosse wisconsin sen. john mccain raz reiterated his praise for former wisconsin governor and health and human services secretary tommy thompson i would also like to mention one who is here who has been a great governor here in the state of wisconsin the smartest guy on health care one of the great friends we all have in america governor to......
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by michelle malkinaa aaoct ober 9 2008 1120 pm remember what i wrote last month watch ohio. well theres news breaking tonight and its good news for election integrity. a federal district court judge has found democrat secretary of state jennifer brunner guilty of violating federal election laws. the ruling goes to the heart of the acorncentered voter fraud epide......
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from newbusters.org by free stinker updated augusta 2008 have you seen that the bush lied talking point is now officially confirmed by a stu dy the problem is this study does not make the cyclosarin mustard gas sarin tabun vx gas and tons of uranium go away. and the un has even admited that the old wmd foun......
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the invaluable mickey kaus had links to several peopleapr operlyacr iticizing illinois junior senator for his terminal vagueness and silence on the economy here bill clintons policy adviser william galston is frustrated with barack obama. he thinks obama is losing the debate on the economy allowing mccains analysis that lobbyists and washington are the problem to......
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cognitive dissonance is the discomfort of holding two contradictory beliefs. we all have em. common ways of dealing abandoning one of the beliefs not very common rationalising more common creating some third overarching belief that incorporates the other two quite common. religions are masters of the third option devoting much energy to it in christian......
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when you read something like this its 2004 all over again 822 1ignoranc e and bloodlust have a long tradition in the united states especially in the red states. salon something is being perpetrated upon you and your country that is so obscene that it simply cannot be happening. i sat outside a 7eleven and had a sacramental dove chocolate bar. jeez here we are ......
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assorted nonsense and marginally relevant shenanigans via my personal delicious.com bookmarks. googlephone will cost the same as the iphone man thats a ballsy move. price point isnt the only level that theyre going to have to compete on. tell me youve got a killer ui and apps to go with it. otherwise youre gearing up for your own product launchfuneral. cri......
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as this campaigns voice of americas multimillionaire debutante heiresses women for john mccain are proud to welcome former hillary clinton supporteralynn forester de rothschild to our ranks.a this is an impressive crowd the haves and havemores. some people call you the elites. i call you my base. george w. bush as a jet setting transatlantic heir to thea......
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one meeid is now in all 50 states. which state was last ill give you a clue. you can see russia from this state two orange county register wrote about us. why does this matter because theyre a legitimate newspaper. three more and more people are using meeid as their universal about me page. 14 people are already using their meeid page as their twitter p......
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