Poynter.org:

Sulzberger announced Robinson’s firing on Dec. 15. (…)

“…her exit package amounted to almost $24 million, nearly half the company’s profits in 2011.”

Carolla is in alpha-male-Aspergers’ heaven:

Typical.

PS: Heh.

Oh bruther.

Sorry, no.

Once upon a time, people realized that death, while a horrible thing, was also a part of life.

They carried themselves with dignity and stoicism.

To the best of my knowledge, they didn’t camp out in front of coffins, dressed like they were at a teenaged girl’s sleepover.

This photo perfectly illustrates the Oprah-fication of America.

Yes, you see the dignified Marine.

But he is, tellingly, in the background.

So is the cross.

So, for that matter, is the coffin of the man we’re meant to honor.

What’s in the foreground?

A woman comporting herself in an undignified, childish, narcissistic manner, in a sacred place.

In fact, she has her back to her husband’s remains, and is staring at a computer screen.

I don’t care why — she’s apparently listening to his favorite songs.

Can this not be done in the privacy of one’s home?

OR can we maybe  hold a traditional unplugged vigil/wake without gadgets?

Maybe we can — call me crazy! — pick one, then do that.

Do we really have to multitask death now, and try to escape its harshness by indulging our addiction to electronic narcotics?

If people really find this photo inspiring, then America is doomed after all.

And that’s turning out to be lucky for them, huh?

“Why oh why aren’t there more black employees in this room, sharing our layoff woes?”

Sounds pretty stupid when I put it that way, huh, journalism geniuses?

Sheesh.

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• Savage: “What’s the difference between Madoff and Zuckerberg?”
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• Ingraham’s expert guest offers puppy training tips

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Getting something horribly, terribly wrong — 20 years after the fact…

This is right up there with, if you were a teenager in 1965, and your mother knew you loved The Beatles, so she baked you a special birthday cake… shaped like a beetle.

Not my problem anymore — especially since I have no plans to visit Philly.

Over 1000 comments already…

Hi. I’m Chaya, and I am a Chassidic Jewish woman. I am also a media professional with a degree in Women’s Studies from a large, very liberal university (magna cum laude, baby!). (…)

Look at it this way:

When your friends go to India to learn how to meditate and come home “leading spiritual lives” and suddenly won’t go out for barbecue with you, you think it is cool. Your friend is leading a spiritual life. Spiritual lives involve boundaries and not just doing whatever your body feels like at that second. We lead spiritual lives. Leading a spiritual life is rewarding. (…)

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A few beefs:

The faces of all the other women in the pic that accompanies the article are all blurred out, which I understand but is still a bit ehngh.

And she doesn’t know what the phrase “original sin” means. It is a stupid-liberal-cliche that it is synonymous with sex.

It’s actually about thinking you’re smarter than God, which, er, cough, sorry…

(I hope she’ll stay away from mixing up “immaculate conception” with “virgin birth” too, then, if it ever comes up. Thank you.)

And the idea that porn-riddled America is “Puritan” is also an unexamined, stupid-liberal-cliche, squared –  because Puritans were not that uptight.

So, to get a little New Testy-menty on ya:

Mote. Eye. Rinse. Repeat.  

(KEEP READING...)

The Man Show explains how kids should deal with bullying:

Plus? You’ll never guess:

White dude!!  I sh*t you not!

Eric Simons, a 19-year-old entrepreneur from Chicago, secretly squatted at AOL’s Palo Alto campus for two months, reports CNET.

Simons was part of an incubator program hosted by AOL called K12. After the program ended, Simons discovered the badges still worked.

So he settled down at AOL to build his startup.

Here’s how he did it…

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When Robert Scalzo’s mother “flatly refused to get him an airsoft gun for his birthday or Christmas, “he built himself a slingshot instead, using a Swiss Army knife to trim a V-shaped branch, attaching two rubber bands and adding a pouch made of hockey tape.” (…)

Patrick Corelli, meanwhile, built himself an air cannon “after his mother banned videogames when he was in sixth grade.” This fall he’ll enter the University of Pittsburgh,”with an engineering scholarship.”

Robert Wargas:

Are you interested in becoming a Racist™?

You may be eligible:

Do you oppose the siphoning off of productive earnings and investment capital into byzantine welfare schemes, run essentially as discretionary funds for politicians who both buy votes and further reward those who have already been bought? (…)

Do you think the “Reverend” Al Sharpton is a criminal, a liar, an antisemite, a libelist, an extortionist, a racketeer, a predator?

Gavin McInnes’s “10 Favorite Hate-Crime Hoaxes”:

A cancer-stricken black lesbian in a wheelchair was subjected to the visceral hatred of some stranger who spray-painted “Burn Nigger Burn” on her house. Police got suspicious and installed a surveillance camera, which revealed said black lesbian lighting a cross on fire.

She also wasn’t handicapped and had even shaved her eyebrows to try and convince people she was undergoing chemo.

PLUS he has an awesome update to my post yesterday:

On Monday, demonstrators in Rapid City, SD marched two miles to the local hospital to protest a group of racist surgeons who had carved “KKK” into an American Indian’s stomach during his triple bypass. The police looked into the allegations and couldn’t see the scarring.

The “victim” had to admit he couldn’t see it either because he’s blind.

McInnes then asks, as he should:

So when did we become such complete faggots about everything?