June 2009
May 2009
Ever spend 3 hours and $100 on dinner with racist fuck wads. Welcome to my Friday night. Fuck me.
“LeBron’s final numbers: 37 points, 14 rebounds, 12 assists — not just a Triple...”
– Joe Posnanski, si.com (via nbaplayoffs2009)
Ron Artest (96TruwarierQB) on Twitter →
nbaplayoffs2009:
Ron Ron is on Twitter.
Stuff Journalists Like #121: Furloughs →
I am a journalist on a furlough right now …. so add updating tumblelog to that.
Stuff Journalists Like →
savingpaper:
(via virtualephemera)
“#3: Free Food. There is nothing more journalists like when attending a press junket, dinner, speech or conference than free food. It sooths the contempt of the journalist who has to be in the Mississippi ballroom of the local Radisson on a Thursday night missing 30 Rock, to listen to a speaker of a local organization ramble on about ‘community engagement’ or...
“I was in (Akron) St. Vincent-St. Mary one day after his junior year and we were...”
– BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Bob Hunter commentary: Rumblings (via lowandmighty)
Wasilla, Alaska Newspaper Asks the Tough... →
(via willzone)
Google Wave Drips With Ambition →
(via hellonewworld)
Interesting facts about NPR's audience
savingpaper:
virtualephemera:
NPR listeners are:
64% more likely than average to have traveled abroad in the last 3 years
2.5 times more likely than average to be Mac users at home.
28% less likely than average to say celebrity endorsements influence their purchase decisions.
45% more likely than average to drink Pabst Blue Ribbon.
70% of NPR listeners say they voted in the most recent...
“People who frequently check their e-mail have tested as less intelligent than...”
– From NY Mag’s article on Distraction. Uh oh. (via sarahschneider) (via katespencer)
crap.
(via thetrifler)
Untouchable sports records
Some records in sports are never meant to be broken:
Cy Young’s 511 career wins
Wayne Gretzky’s 894 career goals
John Calipari’s 2 career Final Four runs wiped away
“I think it’s despicable. What he put the Packers through last year was not...”
– Fran Tarkenton on Brett Favre
Couldn’t have put it better myself, Fran.
Report: NCAA accuses Memphis of violations →
Recruiting violations center around Derrick Rose, but he’ll make it out unaffected. I want to know how this can stick to Calipari and Kentucky.
“The attacks on Sonia Sotomayor are getting crazier by the minute. The...”
– A note on identity politics - Paul Krugman Blog
(via mimitakestheleftturn:ntkg)
(via apsies)
Tony George ousted as CEO of Indianapolis Motor... →
Robin Miller says yes, Tony George says no, IMS spokesman shrugs shoulders.
“Gordon S. Wood, in his 1992 book, “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,”...”
– Rev. Richard T. Zuelch, Letter to the Editor, Los Angeles Times, August 1995 (via soupsoup)
U.K. Dept. of Health: Journalism leads all other... →
(via savingpaper)
I can vouch.
Funemployment, day 27.
baitandswitch:
bmichael:
I moved my Skills and Proficiencies section to below Education and above Work History. I also made some amendments:
“I am good at cunnilingus (presuming a female HR director). I know a lot of people say that they are ‘good’ at it, but I really think I am. I have a good technique, and I don’t go nuts and overstimulate any areas too much.”
“I have a car, so I can give...
As Chris Matthews would say: 'HA!'
savingpaper:
apsies:abbyjean:
Karl Rove on Sonia Sotomayor, with Charlie Rose:
Charlie - “She is very smart.”
Rove - “Not necessarily.”
Charlie - “What do you mean? She went to Princeton where she graduating with honors and then went on to Yale Law School…”
Rove- “I know lots of stupid people who went to Ivy League schools.”
(thinkprogress)
“According to people who have been contacted by the companies, Half Yard...”
– ‘Real Housewives’ and more hit D.C. - Anne Schroeder Mullins - POLITICO.com (via apsies)
'Grandmother of World's 23rd Best Economist... →
hellonewworld:
(via hellofriend)
Hey, she’s doing her part to get us out of the recession.
