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Six Perfect Words

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:17:10 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Submit your own six words. You could be published in the Six-Word Memoir Book. Leave your own six words here too.

He vanished after clipping her obituary.

Clip Source: smithmag.net

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. The result was "For sale: baby shoes, never used."

It could be the title of your autobiography, or maybe your epitaph. Shorter than haiku and meatier that a one-liner, it truly makes you take stock of who you are. Try it.

"Take a left turn, then fly."
– Hillary Carlip

Eight thousand orgasms. Only one baby.
– Neal Pollack

I still make coffee for two.
– Zak Nelson

"On the seventh word, he rested."
– Stephen J. Dubner

"My spiritual path is 100 proof."
– John House

"He wore dresses. This caused messes."
– Josh Kilmer-Purcell

Tags: words, literature, reading, books

10 Videos That Made YouTube Famous

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:37:12 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: bofftravel.blogspot.com

I've shamelessly lifted this from Forbes magazine - it's their list of top 10 videos that made YouTube famous. Each video is an exemplar in some way and representative of what YouTube can offer (asides from mind-numbing banality).

SNL - Lazy Sunday

[Video]

Hillary 1984

[Video]

OK Go - Here It Goes Again

[Video]

Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend

[Video]

Guitar

[Video]

Evolution Of Dance

[Video]

Pokemon Theme Music Video

[Video]

Lonelygirl15 - First Blog/Dorkiness Prevails

[Video]

Stephen Colbert - 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner

To view, click here.

Free Hugs Campaign

[Video]

To read the Forbes article, click here.

Tags: videos, youtube, web, internet, list, people, entertainment

CNN readers respond angrily to 'race or gender' story

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:05:22 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Within minutes of posting a story on CNN's homepage called "Gender or race: Black women voters face tough choices in South Carolina," readers reacted quickly and angrily.

Many took umbrage at the story's suggestion that black women voters face "a unique, and most unexpected dilemma" about voting their race or their gender.

An e-mailer named Tiffany responded sarcastically: "Duh, I'm a black woman and here I am at the voting booth. Duh, since I'm illiterate I'll pull down the lever for someone. Hm... Well, he black so I may vote for him... oh wait she a woman I may vote for her... What Ise gon' do? Oh lordy!"

Tiffany urged CNN to "pull this racist crap off" the Web site and to stop calling Hillary the "top female candidate."

"Stop calling Barack the "Black" candidate," she wrote.

Matt e-mailed, "The article itself shows black women have brains and actually choose candidates based on issues and not just gender or race, but CNN doesn't seem to give them that credit."

Tags: woman, women, black, politics, race, gender, media

Warren Buffett: Income tax rigged to benefit rich

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:48:05 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Billionaires pay tax at lower rates than their secretaries do

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

The very rich in America pay taxes at a lower rate than most working people, and, due to a wrinkle in the tax code, private-equity partners enjoy some of the lowest tax rates of all. At a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser in New York last month, Warren Buffett, no stranger to wealth, told an audience filled with bankers and real-estate developers the system was, in effect, rigged. "This is what Congress in its wisdom did: the 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter." Buffett (who is a director of NEWSWEEK's parent, The Washington Post Company) offered a million dollars to any fellow magnate who could prove he had higher tax rates than his secretary.

Tags: warren buffett, income, taxes, wealth, equities

Blackwater: The Christian Right's Private Army

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:45:52 GMT

clipped by: kmcolo
clipper's remarks: The shock troops of Armageddon

Clip Source: www.pbs.org

You could not miss Erik Prince this week. The founder and top gun of Blackwater usually keeps a low media profile. But there he was all over the place, in a carefully orchestrated campaign to put the best face on a bad situation.

General Petraeus himself has been guarded by private contractors in Iraq.

it sends a message that the United States military is essentially a subservient player to a corporate army in Iraq.

When Hillary Clinton's husband was in the White House, he was an aggressive supporter of the privatization of the war machine.

what I think is more interesting is Erik Prince's connection to radical religious right organizations.

I believe that Erik Prince is an ideological foot soldier. And I do believe that he's a Christian supremacist.

I believe that these men do have an agenda that very closely reflects adherence to a sort of Crusader doctrine.

Tags: moyers, podcast, christian conservatives, military

How to Become President with Clipmarks

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:47:20 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: You heard it here first. In 2008, you just won't get elected without reaching out to the coveted Clipmarks community. And you can bet we'll be checking candidates' sign-up dates.

The publicity for Clipmarks 2.0 rolls on....

Clip Source: www.appscout.com

I was on some news program a few weeks ago talking about Barack Obama's YouTube videos and Hillary's online live chats, and at the end of the segment I said that the Internet empowers Regular-Joe candidates by giving them free access to a huge chunk of potential voters. The thing is, Obama and Hillary have tons of cash to run "real" political campaigns with slick TV spots and so on. They're taking the free route not to save cash but to reach YOU instead of the oldsters who watch the nightly news. If you're online, you're engaged, and politicians dig that.

Step 2: Keep a blog, but make it good. Link-baity lists like "17 Reasons to Enforce Anti-Spam Legislation" are good; "10 Reasons Mac Users Should Vote for Me" is better. Make sure you have a credible (yet hip) blogroll. And use ClipMarks to post snippets and ideas from around the Web and other blogs, to show that you can both talk and listen.

Tags: clipmarks, president, politician, candidates, election, vote, campaign, usa, politics, web 2.0, web

Women cannot afford to get angry

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:25:59 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

Whether you are running for president or looking for a clerical job, you cannot afford to get angry if you are a woman, Yale University psychologist Victoria Brescoll has found.

Brescoll and Eric Uhlmann at Northwestern University recently completed three separate studies to explore a phenomenon that may be all-too-familiar to women like New York Senator Hillary Clinton: People accept and even reward men who get angry but view women who lose their temper as less competent

The studies, published in the March issue of Psychological Science, provide women with recommendations for navigating emotional hazards of the workplace. Brescoll says it pays to stay emotionally neutral and, if you can't, at least explain what ticked you off in the first place.

"An angry woman loses status, no matter what her position,'' said Brescoll, who worked in Clinton's office as a Congressional Fellow in 2004 while she was preparing her doctoral thesis on gender bias.

Tags: women, anger

Hillary must win 80% of every remaining primary to tie Obama

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:08:15 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: How her arguments have changed as hope dimmed

Clip Source: www.slate.com

According to Slate's Delegate Calculator, Clinton would need 80 percent of every remaining vote to catch up with Obama on pledged delegates. There's no chance anyone inside the Clinton campaign believes that is going to happen.

When Hillary started falling behind in primary delegates, her campaign emphasized her lead in superdelegates

They gave that up when superdelegates started drifting Obama's way

Then the Clinton campaign started arguing that you can't nominate

someone who lacks a popular-vote majority

They're starting to give that up because Clinton now has little chance of surpassing Obama in the popular vote. (That's just as well, because

the caucuses screw up popular-vote counts as a reliable measure of candidate support.

This isn't arithmecracy. It's arithmetic idolatry—the worship of irrelevant numbers

Does that mean the end of her campaign is near? I'm beginning to suspect so. Hand me that slide rule …

Tags: clinton, election, obama, politics

A Flawed Feminist Test

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:48:56 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "As a possible first Madame President, Hillary is a flawed science experiment because you can’t take Bill out of the equation. Her story is wrapped up in her marriage, and her marriage is wrapped up in a series of unappetizing compromises, arrangements and dependencies."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

We’re not just in the most vertiginous election of our lives. We’re in another national seminar on gender and race that is teaching us about who we are as we figure out what we want America to be.

It’s not yet clear which prejudice will infect the presidential contest more — misogyny or racism.

Many women I talk to, even those who aren’t particularly fond of Hillary, feel empathy for her, knowing that any woman in a world dominated by men has to walk a tightrope between femininity and masculinity, strength and vulnerability.

They see double standards they hate — when male reporters described Hillary’s laugh as “a cackle” or her voice as “grating,” when Rush Limbaugh goes off on her wrinkles or when male pundits seem gleeful to write her political obituary. Several women I know, who argue with their husbands about Hillary, refer with a shudder to the “Kill the Witch” syndrome.

Tags: oh, yeah

REALITY CHECK!

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:03:39 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: There is a frightening new global trend of denial...

Europeans think that they don't need to limit fishing...

Car companies don't think they need to improve fuel economy standards...

Bush thinks he can increase spending and cut taxes at the same time...

Jingoists think we are winning the war in Iraq...

Democrats think Hillary Clinton has enough experience to win an election...

Polluters think that Global Warming won't really happen...

Evangelicals think Jesus is coming back soon...

Fundamentalists think they can win the war against modernity...

The truth is: we're stuck with this world. The rules DO apply. No free passes. You have to face the music sometime.

We must choose realism over comfortable delusion. Unfortunately, for now, wistful thinking will rule the day until we let it all collapse around us.

Then we'll stand there scratching our heads saying: How could this happen?

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Fishing until all the fish are gone

Sharon LaFraniere showed how mechanized fishing fleets from the European Union and nations like China and Russia - usually with the complicity of local governments - have nearly picked clean the oceans off Senegal and other northwest African countries.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

U.S. agency says 17 states can't set car emission rules

WASHINGTON: The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday denied California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

US deficit expected to grow even before economic stimulus package is unwrapped

The latest deficit projections from the Congressional Budget Office forecast a sea of red ink that will only deepen under plans to jump-start the economy with tax cuts and government spending.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Published: January 21, 2008

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a funeral tent Monday in a predominantly Sunni village, killing at least 14 people and wounding 17.

Tags: reality check, bush, democrats, big buisness, oil, iraq, environment, global warming, tax cuts

PIMPIN OUR DAUGHTERS

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:23:24 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings
clipper's remarks: In the words of Hillary Clinton ' It takes a village' why does it take scientific studies and polls to make us aware of what is going on in our own families and culture? I mean does it really require society to tell us what is wrong with our families? DADS must someone else tell you what is appropriate behavior for your sons and daughters?

As long as there is pop culture and idols are made of television stars our young people will be tempted to look like what they see on TV and in the movies. Perhaps a return to decency and a little old fashion modesty is in order?

Clip Source: www.townhall.com

The American Psychological Association has discovered that too early sexualization of children, particularly girls, is damaging. How about that? Because I have well-developed views on this subject, I almost didn't read the long article about it in the Health section of The Washington Post this week. But I'm glad I did because just when you think you're up to date on cultural decline, you are surprised.

Here is reporter Stacy Weiner on the state of preteen fashion: "Ten-year-old girls can slide their low cut jeans over 'eye-candy' panties. French maid costumes, garter belt included, are available in preteen sizes. . . . And it's not unusual for girls under 12 to sing, 'Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?'" As Nora Ephron memorably put it in another context, "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up."

The Post article and the APA report focus on the increasing rates of eating disorders, depression and low self-esteem among younger and younger girls. Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., for example, is now seeing patients as young as 6 with eating disorders. Girls are worrying about their weight and expressing dissatisfaction with their bodies at younger ages.

Tags: sex, modesty, pop culture, attire, feminism, adolesence, puberty

Conservative Paper Drops Ann Coulter

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:02:39 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: Our community is largely conservative and Republican. They expect insightful discussion of issues. Ann Coulter wasn't giving us that.

Clip Source: www.editorandpublisher.com

Editor Explains Why Paper Dropped Coulter Column

The daily Lancaster (Pa.) New Era, in a note to readers, said it "halted publication of Ann Coulter's syndicated column following her crude characterization of presidential candidate John Edwards as a homosexual at a public appearance on Friday.

"Lancaster County residents of whatever political view -- conservative, moderate, or liberal -- deserve intelligent discussion of issues. Ann Coulter no longer provides that."

Our community is largely conservative and Republican. They expect insightful discussion of issues. Ann Coulter wasn't giving us that.

He told E&P that Coulter "was hurting our credibility.

Coulter's use of name-calling, sarcasm, and overstatement in her columns too often detracts from the arguments she seeks to make. ...

Schreiber said of Coulter: "I can't defend her antics, and I don't want the New Era associated with them."

Tags: bush, cheney, gay, war, terror, veterans, health care, politics, news, conservative, republican, democrat, iran, marines, army, navy, air force, military, iraq, elections, coulter, efp, middle east, islam, newspaper, election, hillary

Palin, aside from being a woman...

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:10:13 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Obviously a lot has been said about the fact that McCain picked a woman as his VP. That is no doubt an interesting fact that can be interpreted in a few different ways. But putting that aside, i think the facts that matter most are those in this clip.

These come from a comment by debbyski and i think they represent the reasons people will or won't support her.

I would certainly be shocked if anyone who voted for Hillary would support Palin based on these specific differences in beliefs and policies.

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

is also anti-choice, pro-gun, pro big oil, opposes stem-cell research, wants to teach creationism in schools, also has ZERO FOREIGN POLICY EXPERTISE

Tags: sarah palin, mccain, vice president, politics

Celebrity Caricature

Sat, 17 May 2008 18:49:56 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Cosmo Kramer Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Antonio Banderas Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Tom Cruise Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Prince Charles Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Conan O'Brien Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Tom Hanks Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Angelina Jolie Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Leonardo DiCaprio Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Bruce Willis Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Tom Hanks Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Will Smith Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Nicolas Cage Caricature ~

Clip Source: www.boulevardofthestars.com

~ Tom Cruise Caricature ~

Clip Source: studentsmetro.com

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Terminator

Beatles

Bill Murray

Britney Spears

Clint Eastwood

Ellis Cooper

Elton John

George W. Bush

Hillary Clinton

Mulder and Scully X-files

Nicole Kidman

Tom Hanks

Tags: cartoon

Facebook Never Forgets

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:43:17 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "The Internet's anonymity, long memory and free-for-all gossip culture may yet prove a poisonous cocktail. But as our generation grows older and enters public life -- thankfully, we have some time -- we'll find ourselves in a political culture that increasingly views these "gotcha" moments in context and with an eye toward forgiveness. After all, the incriminating photo, the offensive blog post, that drunken 3 a.m. e-mail -- it could have been any of us."

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Imagine if the current crop of public figures had grown up during the Facebook era. We might have photos of John McCain in Florida slurping body shots off his stripper girlfriend. Barack Obama rolling a joint on a beach in Hawaii. George W. Bush passed out at a Yale frat party, 40-ounce beer bottles duct-taped to his hands. Hillary Rodham Clinton at a Wellesley peace rally, locking lips with her husband's future secretary of Labor, Robert Reich.

It's one thing to hear that your elected representative had a wild time in college. It's entirely different to have pictorial proof. Would you still vote for someone after viewing a photograph of him passed out in his own vomit?

This isn't just a thought experiment. The next generation of political leaders is coming of age right now -- and it's unlikely that any one of them will escape digital documentation of their college-era foibles.