I’m putting this up because there isn’t one. And because there isn’t one I don’t have an appropriate place to say “Whatever. I fucking hate life for no good reason sometimes, and I feel lazy, and I wish my wife were here, although if she were I’d be bummed I hadn’t done the cleaning I wanted to do today, because this place is a mess.” And maybe you also wanted to say something like that and wanted an open thread to say it in. Continue reading
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Top o’ the morning, Crasstalkers. Here’s some reading for you:
- The real force of change in Egypt has been trade unions, not Twitter or Facebook
- Samantha Power and others are clashing with Hillary Clinton over how to deal with Mubark and Egypt
- Conservatives are clashing with even more insane conservatives over how to deal with Mubarak and Egypt
- Here’s a cool interactive chart showing changes in the U.S.’s income inequality
- Montgomery County, Md. wants to require panhandlers to get licences to beg for change
- You should’ve been parking your car ass-backward all these years
Question of the morning:
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I was watching Pat Kiernan on NY1 this morning when the Gawker-Lee story came on. “The story here is how short the story is. Within three hours of the article, Congressman Lee had resigned.” And then he moved on. Continue reading
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Hi gang and welcome to Crasstalk. If you are new here you can take a look at this post to get you started. Please feel free to use the post as an open thread, but since we would like to see more of you writing for us, I am going to suggest that you can also use this space to kick around ideas for new articles and to ask questions about the process of posting to word press. If you need extra help please email me at [email protected]. I will be checking in throughout the evening. Since I want to encourage you to write I will give you a few handy tips to help get you started: Continue reading
Hi Gang. I am just opening up a thread so we can all say hello today. Hope you are staying pressed. Continue reading
Who wants to talk about Big Love? It’s big, it has love and it’s on HBO so they can show and say whatever they want. Now go discuss. Continue reading
Frightened by the buggy, apparently-no-QA-was-done-before-deploying-to-production layout of the new Gawker site? Come hide out here. Continue reading