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WaPo's Social Media Guidelines

Ike_Arumba — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:42:52 -0800

The Washington Post has issued new Social Media Guidelines for all employees. From the memo: "All Washington Post journalists relinquish some of the personal privileges of private citizens." Further: "Post journalists must refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything—including photographs or video—that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility." Staff writer Gene Weingarten had an inspired Tweet to mark the occasion.

Snapple and a Shorti?

potch — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:50:42 -0800

A five-page Washington Post epic about the pluralistic cults of WaWa and Sheetz. If you've ever spent any significant amount of time in the Mid-Atlantic states, you'll understand. (print format link)

Might as well give it up: 457-55-5462

educatedslacker — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:59:37 -0800

Researchers have found that it is possible to guess many -- if not all -- of the nine digits in an individual's Social Security number using publicly available information, a finding they say compromises the security of one of the most widely used consumer identifiers in the United States.

Many numbers could be guessed at by simply knowing a person's birth data, the researchers from Carnegie Mellon University said.

Manuscript (PDF)

Study FAQs

If there are homosexuals in Iran, well, whoop-de-damn-do!

silby — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:38:29 -0800

The Washington Post presents the top 5 quotes of 2007. MetaFilter responds: Miss Teen South Carolina, Ahmadinejad, Don Imus, and Larry Craig. Coming tomorrow: The List for 2008

If I had a hammer...

contessa — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:32:08 -0800

Hammer-wielding granny smashes up Comcast office. If you hate Comcast, and like hammers, this story is just for you.

Can't we just go Dutch?

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:25:38 -0800

If European and North American societies are morally responsible (print-friendly) for safeguarding free speech, should we also take financial responsibility for its proponents' safety (pf)? Hitchens seems to think so.

Today's moral dilemma is brought to you, of course, by the West's favourite Voltairian nightmare: prominent Islam critic, former Dutch MP, and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Dear Ketel One Marketing Department...

Ambrosia Voyeur — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:27:23 -0800

"My dad started crying, I started crying, my brother started crying," says Carl Nolet Jr., who sounds on the phone like he's not kidding. "It was exactly what we wanted to say. It was simple, it was black and white, it was genuine."

Dear Ketel One Drinker
Don't You Like Our New Oh So Minimalist Ads?

It's quieter than you think on the Wellesley College Senate bus.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:07:20 -0800

On average, college students are having a medium amount of sex.

"Your Superfluous Excellency" no more... more like Capo di tutti i capi

psmealey — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:06:48 -0800

'A Different Understanding With the President' The first of four chapters in this week's Washington Post on how Dick Cheney became the most influential and powerful man ever to hold the office of vice president. This series examines Cheney's largely hidden and little-understood role in crafting policies for the War on Terror, the economy and the environment. By Barton Gellman and Jo Becker.

Naughty politicians

eunoia — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:26:23 -0800

Should a politician's "artistic endeavors" come into play when voters go to the polls? George Allen thinks that parts of his opponent, Jim Webb's, novels are demeaning to women and contain depictions of incest. Also, Republican candidate for Texas Comptroller, Susan Combs, is being accused of writing porngraphy because of excerpts like these from a romance novel she wrote 15 years ago. And they're not the only politicians who've written naughty things.

The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail

Postroad — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:46:12 -0800

The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail The U.S. Family Network, a public advocacy group that operated in the 1990s with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay and claimed to be a nationwide grass-roots organization, was funded almost entirely by corporations linked to embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to tax records and former associates of the group.

Iraq Winners Allied With Iran Are the Opposite of U.S. Vision

Postroad — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:47:40 -0800

Iraq Winners Allied With Iran Are the Opposite of U.S. Vision [access:sexy247@mailinator.com/ biteme] You can't always get what you ask for:: ...Yet the top two winning parties -- which together won more than 70 percent of the vote and are expected to name Iraq's new prime minister and president -- are Iran's closest allies in Iraq. Thousands of members of the United Iraqi Alliance, a Shiite-dominated slate that won almost half of the 8.5 million votes and will name the prime minister, spent decades in exile in Iran. Most of the militia members in its largest faction were trained in Shiite-dominated Iran...

The torture memoranda

klazmataz — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:45:12 -0800

Links to the government memoranda on torture and the Geneva Convention can be found here (sign-up required) or else through the "featured link" on www.c-span.org. While Alberto Gonzales will probably be confirmed as Attorney General, the memoranda were the subject of some stinging testimony by such heavy-hitters as Harold Koh, dean of Yale Law School, at the end of today's confirmation hearing.

Advertising bigotry

McBain — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:37:08 -0800

The Washington Post decided to publish this advertising insert. Basically, it is political propoganda aimed at blacks speaking against gay rights. The problem is that it is filled with so much questionable information, and is so obviously intended to inflame one minority group towards another, that I seriously question The Washington Post's judgment in publishing it. It tries to destroy comparisons with the black civil rights movement by claiming homosexuality can't be genetic since they don't reproduce and conveniently ignores events like the Stonewall riots. Will we see advertising supplements from holocaust deniers next?

XQUZYPHYR — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:32:53 -0800

Coming Out for One of Their Own. How an Oklahoma town overcame anti-gay bigotry... to help overcome anti-gay bigotry. (WashPost, login req. Via Pandagon)

Marion Barry is my homeboy

chinese_fashion — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:18:33 -0800

"Hey, darling. Love you. Need your vote." Politics without presidents: a soulful portrait of former DC mayor Marion Barry. I was really impressed by the dog in the left-hand corner of the picture. (registration required)

What's your genetic fitness, eh?

jfuller — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:04:27 -0800

Breeders are winning. "Conservative, religiously minded Americans are putting far more of their genes into the future than their liberal, secular counterparts." (WaPo link, bugmenot says try fedup@mailinator.com and fedup if you don't care to register. Definition of genetic fitness here.)

Touching, sad, chilling account of obesity in America.

chinese_fashion — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 06:37:42 -0800

Touching, sad, chilling account of obesity in America People outside the US have this view of us as disgustingly, morbidly obese...and it can be true. This article from the Washington Post Sunday Magazine (free registration may be required) put a touching, terrifying, human face on one of America's biggest problems.

N-I-G-G-E-R

LinusMines — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 11:15:30 -0800

Cable channel Trio drops the N-bomb An original documentary, premiering tonight, takes a close look at a troublesome word.

Shia Uprising

y2karl — Sun, 04 Apr 2004 22:03:48 -0800

Eight U.S. Troops Killed in Shiite Uprising Occupation Forces Battle Cleric's Followers As Widespread Demonstrations Erupt in Iraq
A Young Radical's Anti-U.S. Wrath Is Unleashed For months, as American occupation authorities have focused on a moderate Shiite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a radical young Shiite cleric named Moktada al-Sadr has been spewing invective and threatening a widespread insurrection. On Sunday, he unleashed it. At his word, thousands of disciples, wearing green headbands and carrying automatic rifles, stormed into the streets of several cities and set off the most widespread mayhem of the occupation. Witnesses and occupation officials said the disciples occupied police stations, fired rocket-propelled grenades at American troops and overran government security in Kufa, the town in south central Iraq where Mr. Sadr lives. "The occupation is over!" many yelled. "We are now controlled by Sadr!"

They don't like me, they really don't like me

MrLint — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 22:16:34 -0800

Its a vast left wing conspiracy! It seems that the RNC (Republican national committee) is seeing conspiracy everywhere. There are lots of stand alone groups that have been trying to get rid of this administration before Kerry showed up on the scene, and now that there is a target they want to hang everything on him. Its almost like flattery. Of course it reminds me of when SCO claimed IBM was orchestrating all the bad press about them.

Mary's Family Matters

alms — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:11:34 -0800

Dear Mary, your father, recently said he would support adding anti-gay prejudice to the US Constitution, making you and millions of other Americans second-class citizens. As an open lesbian who has worked for years as a public advocate for gay civil rights, you are in a unique position to defend yourself and your community in this dire hour. You're right, this is very personal.

Paper Tiger?

FormlessOne — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:38:18 -0800

Iraq's Arsenal Was Only On Paper

Our God can beat up your God

majcher — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:26:58 -0800

Alhamdullah. "I do say that freedom is the Almighty's gift to every person," the president replied. "I also condition it by saying freedom is not America's gift to the world. It's much greater than that, of course. And I believe we worship the same god." Apparently, this is causing no small amount of controversy in the Christian God-believing circles. I was always under the impression that it was commonly accepted that Jews, Christians, and Muslims were all working for the same Guy. So, Bush finally says something that's not completely stupid, and he gets all kind of hell for it. Great.

Bush Death toll

CrazyJub — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:31:09 -0800

The Clinton death list meme, so popular right before the 2000 election, has the possibility to start for GWB. WaPo, Oct 5th; Bush Family Babysitter Killed in Fairfax . I'm just wondering how you get your own car to roll on top of you?

"Officer Courtney Young, a police spokeswoman, said Champagne had gone outside the house about 9 p.m. Monday, reportedly to retrieve something from her car. The vehicle had been in gear, police said, and appeared to have rolled in her direction when Champagne was in front of it."