A detailed history, explanation, and defense of the chorded keyboard.
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Did Some Appalachian Whites Oppose Obama Because of His Race? Yes. Of Course.
Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake spend around 1100 words teasing out the uncomfortable questions about Barack Obama’s piss-poor Kentucky/Arkansas primary results. Yes, Obama’s blackness is probably something that causes a few white voters to shudder. But…
simply labeling the 42 percent of Kentuckians who supported “uncommitted†over Obama or the 41 percent of Arkansas who backed Tennessee lawyerÂ
John Wolfe over the incumbent as “racists†is a major oversimplification. Untangling or decoupling how people feel about Obama’s race from how they feel about the policies he has pursued in office and his general beliefs about the size and necessity of government is impossible. No poll or election result can divine voters’ motivations.
Really? No poll? How about the exit polls from Appalachian states that were conducted at the end of the 2008 Democratic primary? In West Virginia:
In Kentucky:
Long before they knew anything about how Obama would govern, or whether he’d make War on Coal, a sizable number of Appalachian whites grabbed anonymous exit poll forms and confirmed that they would vote against the guy because they didn’t like his skin color. Hard to calculate, but not impossible.
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Media Decoder: New Orleans Times Picayune About to Undergo Big Cuts
The New Orleans Times-Picayune survived Hurricane Katrina, but its owner, Newshouse Newspapers, appears to be ending its run as the sole daily newspaper in New Orleans.
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$18.5M settlement for ‘Transformers 3’ injury
The family of a woman left with brain damage after an accident during the filming of “Transformers 3” has reached an $18.5 million settlement with Paramount Pictures.
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Not a one-way street: Evolution shapes environment of Connecticut lakes
Environmental change is the selective force that preserves adaptive traits in organisms and is a primary driver of evolution. However, it is less well known that evolutionary change in organisms also trigger fundamental changes in the environment. Researchers found a prime example of this evolutionary feedback loop in a few lakes in Connecticut, where dams built 300 years ago in Colonial times trapped a fish called the alewife.
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ArtsBeat: Don’t Blame Ellis: Four Actors Are Cut from ‘Smash’
The Broadway performers Brian d’Arcy James and Will Chase are leaving “Smash,” the NBC comedy-drama about the making of a Broadway musical, as are Raza Jaffrey and Jaime Cepero, who played the devious assistant Ellis.
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Why ‘Community’s’ Dan Harmon Was Fired: A Showrunner Explains All
Anonymous
Nobody gets fired by accident — especially the creator of a television show.
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Man-gazine M is ready for its comeback
M magazine, the high-end fashion publication that bit the dust in the early ’90s recession, will be relaunched by Condé Nast’s Fairchild Fashion Media group, it was first reported by nypost.com yesterday.“We think the men’s market is hot,†said Fairchild CEO Gina Sanders.Peter Kaplan, editorial…
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CHINESE OFFICIALS: HOVER FAIL
Someone needs to translate those Photoshop guidelines for our Chinese friends.
The original was found on the Hangzhou Yuhang government official website who later published the following apology:
May 9th, my company submitted the news manuscript of the “Completion and Transfer of the Green Landscaping Project of Nanhu Beach Park†to the Yuhang District Government Portal Website, along with photographs of technicians on location conducting inspections. Due to unsuitable work processes, there were serious mistakes in the uploaded photograph. With regards to the errors of our work, we deeply express our apologies: We sincerely accept the criticizes of the netizen masses, and wholeheartedly appreciate the concern netizens have given us.
Found by ChinaSmack
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Hawaii verifies Obama birth records to Arizona official
The state of Hawaii has verified President Obama’s birth records to Arizona’s elections chief after a nearly three-month back and forth that Arizona officials said could have ended without the incumbent’s name on its November ballot.