NYT has an thoughtful summation of the various stories about ACORN, quoting all sides of the issue.
They close with the Jon Stewart video and say
Yep, the Big Boys are scooped by a couple of novices and then ridiculed by a fake journalist.
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From the Playboy interview with Saul Alinsky in 1972. PLAYBOY: How close was the country to revolution during the Depression? ALINSKY: A lot closer than some people think. It was really Roosevelt’s reforms that saved the system from itself and averted total catastrophe. You’ve got to remember, it wasn’t only people’s money that went [...] Stock market pundits often say by the time a financial trend makes it to the cover of major news magazines, it generally signals it is time to go the other way. Thus, if Newsweek has a cover story saying the Bull market is Back, then it’s time to sell and go short. Therefore, using this [...] An apology, message and castigation from Frank Schaeffer, co-founder of the anti-abortion movement. He believes Obama will prevail but that violence against politicians, encouraged by right wing zealots, will probably happen. “They’re leaving a loaded gun on the counter.” (He doesn’t mean all of the right, just the fringees, who often are those [...] WSJ Net neutrality is the principle that Internet providers should treat all data equally and avoid restricting or delaying access to certain sites. In other words, the providers must act like the phone companies and just pass the data along. They can’t be gatekeepers or block content. The FCC now unequivocally supports net [...] From DJ, on his blog Asymptotic Life. These are the highlights. Read the whole thing. Neither side cares to understand where the other is coming from. They dismiss each other as nutcases. So what gives? How are we to make sense out of a seemingly nonsensical debate? Here’s an effort to apply the rules of [...] From Scott Adams, who does Dilbert You might have noticed that there are times, such as now, when the stock market is marching straight up and there is a suspicious lack of bad news. Oh, don’t get me wrong – there is plenty of bad news out there if the media wants to focus [...] Just spotted graffiti in your town (or a city you’re visiting)? Take a photo of it with your iPhone, and using the Citysourced app, it will get routed to the proper department in that city via Citysource, who checks everything before forwarding it. Photos are geo-located so locations can easily be plotted on a [...] (Part 5 of a 5-part series this week about Alinsky) From Rules for Radicals. He says the eternal question of does the end justify the means is meaningless and the real and only question is, “Does this particular end justify this particular means?” He has little use for those who sit on the [...] A group of over 100 of the world’s largest investors have released a policy statement urging strong action to prevent global warming. |  | ||||
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