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St. Paul Police say Democracy? No.
Amy's arrest won't get much attention outside of the librul blogesphere. Now, when Brokaw gets arrested there will be middle-'merica outrage and news at 11.
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at 6:38 PM on September 1, 2008
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The Peloton
Great images! I shot something last month where I was trying to go for the same emotions/ exhaustion and later I thought maybe I'd be the first to do it as a project. Alas, like everything in photography, I was far from the first.
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at 11:24 PM on August 21, 2008
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The Comeback
The St. Petersburg Times has produced some award winning reporting on Josh over the years. I've met and photographed him a few times and he's really a decent guy and someone who's easy to root for.
A few more stories detailing his repeated comebacks.... [more]
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at 5:54 PM on July 6, 2008
Mostly a good story, but really.
posted by xmutex at 5:15 PM on July 6
Yeah, he's a big-time fundie. He's definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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at 5:58 PM on July 6, 2008
I just re-read my wording of my last post and I didn't mean it the way I wrote it. That should be 2 completely separate statemets and not a comment about Josh being dumb for being a Christian.
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at 9:32 PM on July 6, 2008
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Cause Without a Rebel
I have a chihuahua puppy that eats poop.
I believe that fits the definition of ritually unclean.
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at 8:00 PM on July 1, 2008
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Associated Press? More like Litigious Press, amirte?
Sad how many of you seem to wish for the end journalism. Without the AP and member papers doing real journalism we'd be fucked even worse than we already are.
I'm not saying the AP isn't over-reacting but threads like these on the blue are starting to resemble the tired shit Doctorow and his crew peddle daily at BB.
Without some type of standards regarding how content is used (and paid for) on the internet outlets like the AP, Reuters, NYT,... [more]
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at 9:42 PM on June 16, 2008
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Public Relations
CPB - You make a great point but I think you're only half right. It's not that the small pool of reporters suck more that they are suck-ups. The reporters are human and are tempted by power. Look at how the DC press corps make nice at events like the White House Correspondents dinner. Any reporter who shows up for that event ought to be stripped of their press badge. Democracy only works when there is a hostile and skeptical press.
I've worked for several different media... [more]
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at 5:30 PM on June 2, 2008
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Would you like obesity with that?
I can't wait for all those wonderful blogs and other websites that are the "future of journalism" to start doing the type of work and research the Journal Sentinel did to produce this story.
Matter of fact I'm going to start holding my breath......*NOW*
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at 10:05 AM on May 26, 2008
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They see me co-opt'n They hatin'
Even though I ride a fixed to run errands and go to the bar I think this sums up the fixed gear fad pretty well.
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at 3:10 PM on May 25, 2008
Fixed is different than one speed. Fixed is, well, fixed without a freewheel. Many fixed bikes don't have brakes and are stopped by jamming your leg back while hovering over the bars to stop.
There's a Wed night fixie ride here in St. Pete that has been dominated by idiots who would fit in better at a Critical Mass ride. This makes riding any bike in a group more dangerous but especially a bike that is hard to stop with no brakes.
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at 4:50 PM on May 25, 2008
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Photoblog by Núria Jordán and Salvador Barceló
Not just another photoblog but a crappy one at that.
Try these:
http://getdrunk.johnloomis.com/
http://alecsoth.com/blog/
http://www.whatsthejackanory.com/
http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/
http://www.aphotoaday.org/apadnews/
http://www.alittletoofast.com/
and a thousand fucking more.....
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at 12:01 AM on May 25, 2008
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Earthquake fashion shoot
pt - that's exactly what I was thinking. i bet at least 40% (probably more) of the American population would be happy to see everything but Newsmax shut down in the wake of the War on Terror ™ due to "violations of propaganda discipline."
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at 9:58 AM on May 24, 2008
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More than just a sore taint?
Kill yourself and you'll eliminate your carbon footprint. Seems easy enough to me.
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at 1:44 PM on May 14, 2008
Too bad that WNBR site isn't scratch-n-sniff. I bet it would smell like hippy.
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at 6:18 PM on May 14, 2008
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This is a list of frogs.
There's one of these in my backyard that is almost as big as my fist. He's a mosquito wrecking machine.
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at 8:26 AM on May 3, 2008
Oh jeez. After reading about the frog in my backyard I'm afraid it might eat me.
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at 8:31 AM on May 3, 2008
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Bin Laden Determined To Strike In U.S. Part 2
I wonder if Perino is dead inside. I mean, if she had a soul, it couldn't possibly survive the job of peddling this administrations shit day-in and day-out.
I almost feel sorry for her. Almost.
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at 8:44 PM on April 30, 2008
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"an expression of truckliness"
Story a reporter and I did on the woman behind Bumpernuts. If only the Times had the balls to run the photo I shot of the woman sitting behind a table full of these things with this total shit eating grin on her face.
Oh, and for the record I couldn't be happier that my elected officials are wasting my tax money outlawing testes from car bumpers. Fucking clowns.
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at 7:42 PM on April 24, 2008
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The Pie is Flat
Like school in the summertime: no class.
Too bad the pie-throwing-hippy-shitbags didn't try this down south. They'd get their asses tazed.
(and for the record, I think Friedman's a tool who's always looking for the next big thing to write a book about. those of you who think his drumbeat was needed to start a war in Iraq have forgotten Bush would have bombed with or without Tommy)
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at 8:21 PM on April 23, 2008
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Michael Pollan: Why Bother?
Because it's the right thing to do. Because leading by example works. Because you might not be able to change the world but you can change your little corner of it.
It's the Republican party/ Christian ideal of manifest destiny coupled with the advertising industry that has created this philosophy of ignorant mass consumption. See it for what it is and maybe it will be a little easier to put cynicism aside and do the right thing.
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at 9:04 PM on April 19, 2008
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step3profit.com
Step 1: Post crappy one link post to nothing.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Watch post get deleted!
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at 9:39 PM on April 17, 2008
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Easy money
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. News at 11.
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at 8:21 AM on April 14, 2008
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Kaos vs Control
What-fucking-ever. Don't worry about winning the election. Just keep falling for their tricks.
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at 11:23 PM on March 28, 2008
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bank shot
Where does personal responsibility figure into this? I'm tired of hearing about predatory lenders when no one wants to talk about the greedy bastards taking out the loans for a house that is way out of their price range and then getting a home equity to buy a new boat or other status toy.
Bigger is better and more, more, more. Living in Flor-i-duh I see this on a daily basis. Let the fuckers reap what they have sown. Maybe, just maybe, this will become a national lesson... [more]
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at 6:13 AM on March 27, 2008
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Keep your telescreens on comrades
Western Infidels - I was going to write what you wrote nearly word-for-word. My father is a head engineer and supervisor of the division at Neilsen that develops the people meters and other metering products. The most passive boxes that only look for the number of people in the room have failed time and again to be rolled out into living rooms because people don't want them.
There's no way Comcast will roll these out unless they're willing to give their product away for free.
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at 10:07 AM on March 23, 2008
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Denny's Saved by Googie
I hope once all that new shit is built and Ballard's character is completely wiped from the map an earthquake opens a large crack in the ground and swallows it all up.
I used to think the developers in my home state of Florida had no shame but what the developers are doing to Ballard absolutely disgusts me. When I lived in Seattle my wife and I spent many weekends at the Locks and the chowder house across the street. We hoped to one day buy a little bungalow in Ballard.... [more]
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at 3:10 PM on March 15, 2008
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Barry Lyndon
I can't imagine shooting scenes wide open at f .7. That in itself is mind blowing.
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at 2:26 PM on March 1, 2008
More info on the Zeiss 50mm f.7 lens used to film BL.
I occasionally shoot with a 50 f1.2 and getting 2 frames in a row in focus is a challenge let alone 24 fps.
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at 2:31 PM on March 1, 2008
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I am ironman
Thankfully the surgeon used a cadaver tendon to repair my knee. I mean, what could wrong?
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at 12:20 PM on February 21, 2008
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Senate Votes for Retroactive immunity
Sen Nelson of FL took $113,000 from the telcoms during the last election cycle. I'm not surprised he voted no because he's as republican as Sen Martinez but to be that blatantly in the pocket of the lobbyists is infuriating.
And, I wrote two letters so I'll get two form letters in return! Yippee!
When the fuck is this shit going to stop?!
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at 12:43 PM on February 12, 2008
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Put away your asterisks
Interesting about the ADHD thing. Spring training last year I photographed the player who ended up throwing the winning pitch of the '07 World Series and he was very open about his ADHD diagnosis.
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at 6:07 PM on January 28, 2008
