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Nipples on New Yorker Cartoon Prompt a Facebook Ban
 About 83.4 percent of the time, The New Yorker’s cartoons aren’t funny. Yet despite that, it’s difficult to find something wrong with them, because they’re odd and vaguely interesting. Facebook, however, has little trouble picking something upsetting about New Yorker cartoons: Nipples. The New Yorker’s cartoon page on Facebook was temporarily banned from the site because a cartoon featuring tiny nipple’s on a woman’s body violated Facebook’s community standards.
As The New Yorker notes, it wasn’t the man’s nipples that got it banned; male nipples, according to Facebook, are fine. Something called “female nipple bulges†and female nipples, are not.
Please take this into consideration the next time you’re posting pictures from a party. If The New Yorker can get banned for cartoon nipples, anything can happen.
[Image via Mick Stevens/The New Yorker]
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NBC’s ‘Today’ Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence For Kardashian Interview
At 8:46 AM, in New York City and at the White House in Washington DC, there was a moment of silence to remember when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In New York, the NYPD, FDNY, Port Authority Police and the families of the victims were present, while in Washington the President and the First Lady led the moment.
The cable networks all carried it, with ABC’s “Good Morning America†and “CBS This Morning†carrying it as well. The only national general news program to not carry the moment of silence was NBC’s ‘Today,†which, in an odd bit of counter-programming, opted to air an interview with “Keeping Up With the Kardashians†star Kris Jenner, who talked about the new season of the reality show, and her breast implants.
After the moment of silence ended, ABC went right to an interview with actor Richad Gere, while CBS went straight into a commercial break.
Here in New York, NBC did show the moment of silence, as WNBC broke into “Today†to carry locally-produced special coverage.
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jaredbkeller September 11, 2012 at 11:41AM
@jaredbkeller: GoDaddy statement on yesterday’s outage: “It was not a ‘hack’
and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS).” – @BloombergNews
davidaxelrod September 11, 2012 at 11:24AM
@davidaxelrod: Yowza! Adelson bets big on Romney, and under Mitt’s tax scheme, the casino mogul would walk off with a $2 billion pot.
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AdrianChen September 10, 2012 at 07:51PM
@AdrianChen: .@Newyorker got temporarily banned from Facebook for posting cartoon boobs, even though Facebook allows cartoon boobs http://t.co/4c6X4WVl
Gawker September 10, 2012 at 07:14PM
@Gawker: Republicans boycotting pizza shop owned by man who hugged Obama http://t.co/bIwMtRbc
Lafsky September 10, 2012 at 11:45AM
@Lafsky: $ well spent RT @thedailybeast Florida’s long crackdown on voter fraud has caught 1 guy-a Canadian who voted Republicn http://t.co/Bk3BngjH
Today’s Influence Ads: Hustler Magazine Wants Romney’s Tax Returns
Hustler Magazine has a new ad today announcing that the publication and Larry Flynt are offering a cash reward of up to $1 million for information about Mitt Romney‘s unreleased tax returns, bank accounts and business partnerships. The magazine claims it wants to publish the information.
The International Franchise Association‘s new ad calls for extending all current tax rates in order to promote job growth; the Bipartisan Policy Center‘s new ad warns against automatic across-the-board cuts and tax rate increases as a way to deal with America’s long-term fiscal situation; and the Renewable Fuels Association‘s new ad cautions against waiving the Renewable Fuel Standard, claiming that doing so could slightly decrease grocery bills but would increase the amount Americans spend on gasoline.
American College of Rheumatology, American Society for Radiation Oncology, CIT Group, Univision, WellPoint, Women in Government Relations and Zurich also have new ads out today.
Those with continuing ads, per Kantar Media’s Washington Eye, include: Altria, American Society For Radiation Oncology, Bell Helicopter & Boeing, BP, Chevron, Goldman Sachs, McDonald’s, Musicians On Call, Northrop Grumman, Nuclear Energy Institute, Ogilvy and WTOP.
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George Will Is Definitely Not Ready for Some Football
George Will is a longtime hater of liberalism, and a longtime hater of football, so it makes sense that he would try to align his hatreds and write a column arguing that college football is an expression of liberalism:
College football became a national phenomenon because it supposedly served the values of progressivism, in two ways. It exemplified specialization, expertise and scientific management. And it would reconcile the public to the transformation of universities, especially public universities, into something progressivism desired but the public found alien. Replicating industrialism’s division of labor, universities introduced the fragmentation of the old curriculum of moral instruction into increasingly specialized and arcane disciplines. These included the recently founded social sciences — economics, sociology, political science — that were supposed to supply progressive governments with the expertise to manage the complexities of the modern economy and the simplicities of the uninstructed masses.
Football taught the progressive virtue of subordinating the individual to the collectivity. Inevitably, this led to the cult of one individual, the coach.
One flaw with Will’s thesis here is that the regions of the country most enamored with college football are least enamored with liberalism. College football is most popular in the Deep South, followed by the Midwest, followed by the West Coast, followed by the Northeast. The popularity of liberalism by region is that list in reverse.
The obvious solution here is for George Will to tour the Deep South explaining to rabid football fans that they have been taken in by the sinister hand of progressivism.
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