January 2012
7 posts
“I am not a job creator. The middle class are the job creators. Believe me,...”
– Nick Hanauer, an early investor in Amazon and runner of a venture capital firm (i.e., he’s rich)
Quoted by Michael Tomasky while making a pretty convincing argument that Obama is missing a crucial element in his case for reelection. According to Mr. Tomasky, Obama is framing his vision for...
A floating pool in the river →
Everything about this is incredible.
A pool that sits in the river and filters the water through it’s own walls - like a giant strainer dropped into the river.
Incredible? Check.
A website platform that enables crowdfunding, or micropatronage, to fund all sorts of creative projects while protecting donors’ money by setting all or nothing fundraising goals.
Incredible? Check.
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CONTEST: Death Cab For Cutie are hitting the road this winter accompanied by The Magik*Magik Orchestra (who recently joined them on their VH1 Storytellers performance) as well as up and coming indie act Youth Lagoon for a show that should be just as impressive as it is unique. For those of you who missed DCFC’s intimate performance at the club with an extremely crowd...
I think this is the first really terrible article... →
I’m the first to admit that I too readily defend my favorite president. But I also have a relatively blind faith in the wisdom of my favorite magazine, and this article is seemingly calculated to make me question that faith. Sir, you’ve gone too far.
Sure, trying to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US is at best misguided policy, but I suspect this is more pep-rallying fluff than...
In response to Mr Williams’ quixotic second attempt to coax the former speaker of the House into acknowledging that insistently calling Barack Obama “the food-stamp president” smacks of racial politics, Mr Gingrich rejoined: “First of all, Juan, more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in history.” This incredibly misleading claim...
