Month: July 2013

  • snopes.com: Facebook Graph App Privacy

    It's a hoax. The only Facebook content that can be seen by everyone and anyone is content that you set as Public. Stop reposting that thing asking everybody to change their settings. http://www.snopes.com/computer/facebook/graphapp.asp snopes.com: Facebook Graph App Privacy Does Facebook's 'Graph App' makes your private Facebook content visible to strangers?

  • Lady Gaga Shocking Plastic Surgery 2013 – Nose Job / Rhinoplasty / Botox / Lip Injections

    Trolling gossip blogs. Looks like Lady Gaga pulled a Jennifer Grey. She looks much less distinctive now. Lady Gaga Shocking Plastic Surgery 2013 – Nose Job / Rhinoplasty / Botox / Lip Injections Lady Gaga reappears from hip surgery with a shocking new face in 2013. Check out Gaga before and after plastic surgery on […]

  • Hard Work, Gumption and Bootstraps?

    Commenter on Metafter: “Why are all newspaper comments turning into Free Republic? If you buy into the idea that anyone can make it in the US with HARD WORK and GUMPTION and BOOTSTRAPS, that turns poverty into a moral issue and the poor can be safely judged as inferior human beings because if they wanted […]

  • Here's What The Police Will Do

    Commenter on Metafilter: “Here is what the police will do: Whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want to. They are tiny gods, moving among us, deciding who gets shot today and who merely gets hauled away. Any attempt to assert your rights will result in you either being arrested (because you HAVE done […]

  • Bear Culture (Past and Present)

    Commenter on Metafilter: “In 1990, when I picked up Bear Magazine Issue #11 at Sisters & Brothers, the gay bookstore in Albuquerque, I bought it because the man on the cover was über-hot. But when I got it home and started actually reading it, I discovered there was this movement happening within gay culture. Men […]

  • How Much Does It Cost to Live Comfortably in the Bay Area?

    Hold up. "San Francisco" and "Bay Area" are two entirely different sets of economic conditions. You can't collapse them like that. How Much Does It Cost to Live Comfortably in the Bay Area? Anyone who lives in the Bay Area knows it's not cheap. Rents in San Francisco are notoriously high and rising- trickling out […]

  • Irish lawmaker pulls female MP onto his lap during abortion debate

    Oh no fucking way: Irish lawmaker pulls female MP onto his lap during abortion debate An Irish politician has apologized after he was seen pulling a female colleague onto his lap during an abortion debate that ran into the early hours of Wednesday morning.

  • Parents Wheel Crib to Eatery in Increasingly Family-Friendly Williamsburg – Williamsburg -…

    Dammit Johanna! Parents Wheel Crib to Eatery in Increasingly Family-Friendly Williamsburg – Williamsburg -… The onetime bohemian stronghold is increasingly going out of its way to meet kids' needs.

  • Elizabeth Warren Hits Big Banks Where It Hurts- New Bill Would Restore Glass-Steagall

    Remember that one time we had The Great Depression and everybody said: 'Wow that sucked. Maybe people's checking and savings shouldn't be mixed into the casino called the stock market?' And for a while things were stable. Then Clinton and Congress did away with that law and we got to where we are now. Our […]

  • First round of PressNomics 2 speakers announced. – PressNomics

    Absolutely thrilled to be speaking at Pressnomics this October in PHX. Thnx Sally and Joshua! First round of PressNomics 2 speakers announced. – PressNomics We are happy to share with you this first batch of speaker