February 2012
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Daily News: Fired cop is back
On Aug. 18, 2010, a community activist in Kensington looked out his bedroom window and saw an officer in car N142, a car assigned to Sulpizio, parked on the sidewalk on Willard near Emerald in front of the Richmond Post Office. The officer removed about 10 stacks of money from a brown paper bag and stuffed the cash into what appeared to be his pockets, the activist said.
The next morning, the...
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“You might get an STD if you have unprotected sex, but even the smartest people...”
– Dave Winer is really great sometimes. Read this, on VCs and our data.
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"Follow-up statement and action"
The ESPN employee responsible for our Mobile headline has been dismissed.
The ESPNEWS anchor has been suspended for 30 days.
Late to this (and who cares about Jeremy Lin anymore?) but one of the unsurprising but still fucked-up outcomes of the ESPN flap over “Chink in the Armor” is that the web lackey who put the headline out on the site got fired, but the on-air personality who...
All Dead Mormons Are Now Gay →
sudama:
“There is no undo.”
“Sedgwick Avenue where L.L. Kool Herc invented hip hop”
– Senator Chuck Schumer discusses hip-hop history. [h/t hunter walker] (via azipaybarah)
I like that he is at least trying?
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“I think it would be a classy gesture if Barack Obama and his children undertook...”
– This is like the 25 funniest tweets you’ve ever read about Newt Gingrich, rolled up into on handy GQ column.
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“We have a very daunting, imposing possibility in front of us,” he said. “But...”
– There is so much LOL in this great article about what is happening with Philadelphia Media Network right now. It’s mostly tragic, and lots of good reporters are about to lose their jobs. This quote is especially rich and almost inspired me to start a blog about all the fucked up stuff these...
Local Politics is Probably Corrupt Everywhere...
In a letter to the Board dated mid January, Barry Grossbach, who heads a committee that considers zoning issues for the Spruce Hill Community Association, wrote that the Subway would provide a stable tenant for the storefront property and that the Association was “at a loss” about the previous decision to deny Subway a take-out certificate that would enable it to open.
Local Philly politics...
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Bijan Sabet: Take my data →
A lot, probably too much, has been written about Path in the last week. But one part of this is still really bothering me, especially among people who are telling us it isn’t as bad as we thought.
Ryan Tate wrote a gotcha post where Path’s founder went on the record (but unpublished) that Path wasn’t doing what we know they are doing now. And at the time, it was technically true...
Q: Who is Michiko Kakutani's favorite athlete?
wrongthinking:
A: JEREMY LIMN
sudama:
Ugh, just when I venture to pay some attention to Dave Winer, he chooses to bring the sexism back. Forget it.
Dave Winer is like a drunk uncle, you have fond memories of him and he is really smart, but then you go to dinner with him and you remember he is a drunk asshole.
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RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Doctors in New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 cases of a rare and often rapidly fatal form of cancer. Eight of the victims died less than 24 months after the diagnosis was made.
The dateline on this chilling article is July 3, 1981
Alex Balk: Weirdest fortune cookie ever. →
alexbalk:
“Years later you will realize that Mike’s crazy girlfriend was a person just like you, and maybe the things that you and your group snickered about and gave Mike shit for were just signs that she was as damaged as everybody else and had the basic insecurities that we all do, and actually Mike was…
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January 2012
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“Who would have thought that they would have the nerve to be monitoring my...”
– FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail
Sorry, but if you are using your employers computer on your employers network, you are a fool to have any expectation of privacy. If there is something you don’t want your boss or company to know, don’t let them have the...
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“It took only 48 hours to drive a stake into the heart of her fledgling business,...”
– Groupon offer damages Mt. Airy market, but Internet helps bring it back
I think the whole Groupon thing is pretty silly and I’ve never used it. But when I hear business owners complain about how bad it is for them, I always roll my eyes. Because if you can’t figure out that giving an...
This does not necessarily refer to your email.
This should be in DSM-V because I suffer from this condition.
alexbalk:
There needs to be a term to describe the condition where you keep an email unread in your box because you’re not prepared to deal with it yet, but then you start to hate and resent the person who sent it because it is the only unread email in your box and it sits there silently accusing you with its boldedness. Or maybe I...
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“Caan’s rage as Sonny confronting the feds at his sister Connie’s wedding was...”
– This in-depth history of the making of The Godfather is amazing.
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“Patterson trills about the therapeutic effects of sperm, which, when it makes...”
– Ex-state aide’s sexually dysfunctional views
Words from the man who used to help set welfare policy in Pennsylvania.
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