Sunday, April 3, 2011
Can "Instapaper" Fix My Reading Habits?
This seems like a very good idea: http://www.instapaper.com/u
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Long List of Long-Form Reading
I am convinced that tabbed browsing is causing the downfall of civilization. I will open a new tab with a story, article, or blogpost to read that seems very interesting or important, only to not have time to read it. Rather then read it, I just make a new tab. By the end, I have 30 or more tabs open. This becomes problematic when I need to navigate back to the one gmail tab, or get back to an actual work related tab.
I don’t usually get to all these tabs in time but eventually my computer starts giving out and I need to close down my web browser and shut it down for at least a short amount of time so it can still function. This means sifting through the tabs to determine which blog posts are still worth reading and which ones now seem either outdated or uninteresting.
Closing tabs is a painful process because I know if I close the tab to that article there is a very good chance I will get around to reading that article. Sharing it on Google Reader or Facebook won’t help either.
So I have decided to make “A Long List of Longform Reading” which will exist both as a text file on my laptop and here on my blog. This will act as a record of what I want to read, and hopefully also provide space for annotations after I’ve read something. This way, even if I close the text file that is the source of the list, the list is still easy to get to.
With that said, lets see whats on my "to read" docket:
How I Tokyo Earthquake could devastate wall street
Read yet? No
Why is this on the list? Because Michael Lewis wrote about an earthquake hitting Tokyo and ruining in the global economy in the 1980’s.
What will I get out of it? Eh... unclear. Nostalgia from reading about references to MITI? (Aka, the most powerful bureaucracy of all time.)
Max Boot on Rumsfeld
Read yet? No
Why is this on the list? Its a TNR book review by a neo-con about why he hates people who can’t win wars. And because I won’t have time and don’t plan on reading Rumsfeld’s book.
What will I get out of it? Hopefully some pointers on how to do literary take downs.
Shani Hilton on DC Gentrification
Read yet? Yes. But Need to re-read
Why is this on the list? WCP Does good feature stories, and because this deals with a bunch of topics I don’t usually read about (Race, Urban Politics, Things about DC not called Michelle Rhee).
What will I get out of it? Hopefully a wider perspective?
Rick Scott on Teacher Merit Pay
Read yet? No
Why is this on the list? Rick Scott is Michelle-Rheeing Florida!
What will I get out of it? More for the hard news content, and to explore possible ed reform story issues.
Rebecca Mansour Profile
Read yet? Like, half-way skimmed
Why is this on the list? Because it is Rebecca Mansour, Sarah Palin’s Twitter Aparatchick.
What will I get out of it? Good question. I guess just background.
Ruffini on good talks form SXSW
Read yet? No haven’t “watched” them yet
Why is this on the list? Because I don’t have the time, patience, or interest of trolling through lifehacker.com
What will I get out of it? Efficiency? Hopefully?
Florida Creationist Bill
Read yet? No
Why is this on the list? Because the only thing needed for evil to succeed is for good to do nothing.
What will I get out of it? Story ideas maybe. And need to jolt self to keep track of this trend.
Responses to the "No Looting in Japan" myth
Read yet? Eh
Why is this on the list? Good idea at the time?
What will I get out of it? Not clear anymore. Especially since I think there are reports of looting in Sendai
It's all the Yakuza!
Read yet? Some of them yes
Why is this on the list? Because we can’t say there is no looting just because of “culture”
What will I get out of it?
How much spin is there on TARP?
Read yet? No
Why is this on the list? Because I am a TARP apologist and I need to be more critical about it.
What will I get out of it? A more nuanced view of TARP
Pew on Immigration
Read yet? No
Why is this on the list? Part of broader “how do we deal with unemployment” issue, and to expand horizons.
What will I get out of it? Facts and figures?
Pawlenty's Accent Change
Read yet? No
Why is this on the list? Because it might be funny?
What will I get out of it? A chuckle?
Arabist on Libya
Read yet? No
Why is this on the list? Because I am super-clueless about Libya
What will I get out of it? Not being entirely clueless about Libya
Patrick Mara
Read yet? Yes
Why is this on the list? Because a Republican is running for office in DC!
What will I get out of it? Local Politics cred?
University of Tokyo Radiation Levels
Read yet? Yes
Why is this on the list? To remember that people are being hysterical
What will I get out of it? Not being hysterical
David Brooks Columnist Contest
Read yet? No
Why is this on the list? It seemed like a good idea at the time
What will I get out of it? Time will pass?
CJR and NGOs and African Journalism
Read yet? No
Why is this on the list? NGOs in Africa are getting spun in their reporting
What will I get out of it? More info
This blog post
Read yet? Yes
Paul Singer in WSJ
Read yet? Yes
Why is this on the list? Need to better understand what inflation hawks are worried about
What will I get out of it? A better understanding of the anti-QE2/inflation worry crowd.
"The Worst Op-Ed of the Week"
Read yet? Yes
Why is this on the list? Because it is “the worst op-ed of the week”
What will I get out of it? See Paul Singer Entry
My Sister's New Blog
Read yet? Yes
How the US Citizenship Test is Wrong
Read yet? Yes
Why is this on the list? This was a good read
What will I get out of it? Enjoyment
Media Matters Boot Camp
Read yet? 1/2
Why is this on the list? To see how David Brock is spending his money
What will I get out of it? Dread?
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Why I Am Not Libertarian
One of the ways the libertarians justify their policies is by arguing that people are rational, and that in the marketplace they respond to incentives, carefully consider their needs, and thus make the best possible purchasing decisions. This might sound like a bit of an inaccurate representation, but it largely conforms to the Chicago/Austrian views about why we should just let the market sort everything out - the assumption is that people are just better at making their own decisions.
After reading news stories like this, I am less convinced:
(For what its worth, my grandfather is also one of these AOL subscribers who is still using the inefficient system because changing it would be both an extreme hassle for him, and also because I don't think he fully appreciates how he can get better service for free.)
That attitude has an unhealthy amount of condescension and elitism wrapped up in it. I also don't think it is the best frame of mind that public policy should be made from.
After reading news stories like this, I am less convinced:
When presented with these problems, I think libertarians then fall back on the "personal responsibility" arguments: its not their fault if people are too stupid to know that they could be getting a better deal somewhere else!
The company [AOL] still gets eighty percent of its profits from subscribers, many of whom are older people who have cable or DSL service but don't realize that they need not pay an additional twenty-five dollars a month to get online and check their e-mail. "The dirty little secret," a former AOL executive says, "is that seventy-five percent of the people who subscribe to AOL's dial-up service don't need it."So a full 60% of AOL's profits come from mostly older misinformed customers who don't realize that they don't need to subscribe to AOL to get online. Although the number of subscribers has sharply decreased from thirty-five million in 2002 to just over four million today, that is still a hefty number of confused people getting nothing for their money.
(For what its worth, my grandfather is also one of these AOL subscribers who is still using the inefficient system because changing it would be both an extreme hassle for him, and also because I don't think he fully appreciates how he can get better service for free.)
That attitude has an unhealthy amount of condescension and elitism wrapped up in it. I also don't think it is the best frame of mind that public policy should be made from.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Chrome Nanny might be the best thing ever
This might be the best extension for Google Chrome ever devised.
Current sites blocked 24/7: Facebook.
Now I am adding to that list, io9, ComicsAlliance, Kotaku, The Onion, and Digg.
Gawker is on thin ice. YouTube would be to if it wasn't work essential.
I am surprised I didn't make "not visiting procrastination promoting websites" a more explicit New Years resolution. Should have done that!
Current sites blocked 24/7: Facebook.
Now I am adding to that list, io9, ComicsAlliance, Kotaku, The Onion, and Digg.
Gawker is on thin ice. YouTube would be to if it wasn't work essential.
I am surprised I didn't make "not visiting procrastination promoting websites" a more explicit New Years resolution. Should have done that!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Term to use in the future
"The Great Twinkie Jihad"
Unless it is too obvious that I am using "The Butlerian Jihad" as the inspiration on that one...
Unless it is too obvious that I am using "The Butlerian Jihad" as the inspiration on that one...
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Crowd-sourcing
I used to be a skeptic, or at least not a true believer, in crowd-sourcing.
But after this blog post? Not anymore!
But after this blog post? Not anymore!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Today's Painful Piece of Journalism
Today, the New York Times ran a piece about books which are popular in the Tea Party movement, entitled “Movement of the Moment Looks to Long-Ago Texts”. It was excruciatingly painful to read. The piece points out that despite being a protest movement taking place during the years of 2009 through 2010 (which you, an astute reader, will note, are the years of the futuristic era known as the 21st century) that the Tea Party movement is influenced by books from “long ago”. However, of the three books that get mentioned, two of them are from the 20th century. Is Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, a book written after World War II, really from “Long-Ago”? Is The 5,000 Year Leap, a crazy piece of Mormon revisionist history, published in 1981, really from “Long-Ago”?
In this situation I blame the editor. The actual author of the piece, Kate Zernike, seems to have been on the Tea Party beat fulltime since January of 2010. She knows what she is talking about. From browsing her archives it is clear that she has written good stories that I missed, like this one about one of the first activists to hold her own Tea Party.
I think there is a story to be written about how the Tea Party movement is getting its intellectual ammunition from a lot of unexpected places. I think that the editor who wrote the headline for this piece gets it wrong.
The editor must be thinking “These guys have a bunch of really crazy ideas, and these ideas that are just so OLD!”
He has it wrong, the ideas are not old in the way that maybe the idea of John Locke area old. They are however fringe ideas that for a long time have been marginalized or on the sidelines.
The news peg isn’t “Tea Party Uses Old Ideas”, it is “Tea Party Uses Fringe Ideas.”
Monday, September 6, 2010
Material that never made it into the Ayn Rand Piece
One of the problems with writing a blog post about Ayn Rand, is that a lot of the materials and gossip about Objectivism is endlessly fascinating to those of us who watch Objectivism incessently, but utterly irrelevant and trivial for normal people.
One of the advantages of being the editor of my own personal blog, is that I get to publish some of these items.
The Extent and Reach of the Fountainhead Book Project
I first read Ayn Rand in the waning days of 12th grade. After finishing “The Fountainhead” I Googled her name and found the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI). I suspect a lot of other students in my generation went through a similar series of steps.
ARI is the closest thing Objectivists have to a think-tank, but “Think-Tank” is not the best description for the organization. Its most successful program have Essay Contest and the Free Classroom Books program. Since ARI is more well known for giving 18 year olds copies of The Fountainhead and less well known for any particular policy paper, I tend to think of ARI as more of a glorified book-club.
I think that this program has probably been the most successful in raising Ayn Rand profile in the popular consciousness. If everyone reads Ayn Rand, she becomes as ubiquitous as George Orwell. As one person I spoke to about this remarked that it was as if 501(c)3 was set up explicitly to make more people read “The Old Man and The Sea”. Inevitably, the book would permeate into the popular culture.
I don’t believe any of this caused the Tea Party movement, but the timing couldn’t have been better for ARI as a way to get popularity.
What excites me most about this program from ARI, is that we get a very interesting natural experiment: how many people who have read The Fountainhead actually change their lives, and in what way? How many people become Objectivists? How many become infuriated by her and become more “liberal”? An entire generation of high school students is just waiting to be the subject of a research grant!
The Most Awful Objectivists Interview Ever
One of the topics I touched on in my piece, was how ARI was becoming more media savvy. To understand what this means in practice, it is important to look at this interview that Leonard Peikoff (the ‘intellectual heir’ to Ayn Rand’s estate) gave to Bill O’Reilly before they learned how to handle themselves in front of cameras.
This interview shows why Objectivism had no reach into conservative circles pre-2008. Peikoff makes no effort to even try to meet O’Reilly on common ground. He treats the interview as an argument that can only be won by asserting more dogma.
Now they have an entire Ayn Rand Center dedicated to helping Objectivists get their message out through media channels. Is it really surprising that they are now called on to be regular guests on the Glenn Beck show?
The Objectivist Scuffle Over the Ground Zero Mosque
Although I write very critically of Objectivism, I do know that not all Objectivists are robots, and there is potential for dissent within its ranks. I think this can only be a healthy thing for the movement. (In the unlikely event that Objectivists actually gain some level of mainstream acceptability, it will not only be important that regular people are able to understand what the “Hierarchy of Values” is as well as the “Malevolent Universe Premise.” It will also be important that some Objectivists are able to hold actual debates and conversations.)
Recently Objectivists have been dealing with a curious tussle over the infamous “Ground Zero” Mosque. On the one hand, Objectivists do not like religion and they have long identified Islamic Fundamentalism as an evil that they would like to nuke. So Leonard Peikoff came out strongly against the mosque:
"Let’s start with property rights. Property rights are limited and they are contextual. You cannot do anything you want with property even though it is yours, not if its ramifications objectively entail a threat to the rights of others. You can’t build a bomb in your home. You can’t even build a big bonfire in your backyard legitimately because the principle of rights is that property rights are a derivative of life as the standard and there can be no right to threaten anyone’s life nor indeed to threaten anyone’s property."
Remember, in the Objectivist conception of reality, Islam fundamentally threatens your property rights!
The incredible thing is that not all other Objectivists agree with this. Amazingly, its not even because they necessarily think that property rights should trump the threat that they believe Islam poses to America:
Undoubtedly, the west is in a cultural war with Islam -- a war that most governments, organizations, and people refuse to acknowledge, let alone fight. Undoubtedly, our government should be at war with the states that export totalitarian Islam, pulverizing them into dust if necessary. Nonetheless, the fact remains that our government is not at war with our Islamic enemies, not in any real sense. Our political and military leaders are not willing to declare, let alone fight, a proper war in our self-defense.
As a result of that failure, the actions of the government toward those enemies are limited. For example, our government cannot prosecute imams for treason when they give aid and comfort to enemy terrorist groups like Hamas. Yes, that's wrong -- but that's what happens when a government refuses to identify its enemies. Similarly, our government cannot regard the proposed mosque as an enemy outpost, as it might, if we were truly at war.
The solution is not to pretend as if war has been declared -- and thereby empower the government to violate people's rights willy-nilly. The solution is not to eliminate the few remaining limits on government power that protect our capacity to speak freely. The solution is press hard for a proper war -- a war against our true enemies, a war fought purely on the basis of American self-interest.
Objectivists remain largely unhappy with the mosque situation, but as with many Objectivist critiques, their problems are very deeply rooted in a rejection of the way the government works:
3) I want to highlight the fact that the reason that many Objectivists who otherwise agree on many important issues are finding themselves at loggerheads on this particular issue is because it is a lose-lose question.
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Given that unfortunate fact, we are left with no good life-promoting options -- only bad death-promoting choices.
On one side are those who argue that allowing the NYC mosque to be built would further weaken the few remaining restraints stopping the bad guys from killing us -- and the result would be our destruction.
On the other hand are those who argue that stopping the building of the mosque by allowing the government to exercise force in a grossly non-objective fashion would further weaken the few remaining restraints keeping us from descending into tyranny -- and the result would be our destruction.
As usual, I suspect that the Objectivist solution is “Everyone should become Objectivist!” But I do find the fact that there is a debate at all to be a positive and healthy thing.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
The feeling of awesome relief.
I think each of us have our own White Whale that we needlessly obsess over. Mine has been trying to find a way to write an Ayn Rand themed piece that is:
1. Well Written
2. News Worthy
For FrumForum.com
And it has FINALLY happened in spite of everything in the world! I am very proud with the final result, and also very proud that this is my public statement on the issue.
I am also amazed that I did it all!
I was originally planning to write a "behind the scenes" post for this post, but I might do that when I have fewer things on my immediate docket.
For now. YAY!
1. Well Written
2. News Worthy
For FrumForum.com
And it has FINALLY happened in spite of everything in the world! I am very proud with the final result, and also very proud that this is my public statement on the issue.
I am also amazed that I did it all!
I was originally planning to write a "behind the scenes" post for this post, but I might do that when I have fewer things on my immediate docket.
For now. YAY!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Inception & Spoilers
(I am writing this a midnight. Here be also grammatical and spelling errors)
When I left this movie, I felt good. It had a clearing sensation, a sense of pleasure for seeing something finely crafted and nearly flawlessly executed. Much like The Dark Knight, Nolan shows his talent for making long films enjoyable. I wanted to scream at him and go, “I know you wont do another movie set in this universe, but I want more!” It doesn’t even need to be a sequel, it can be a different set of characters playing with the same rules about dreams and I would be happy.
Here are a few of my scattered thoughts on the film:
A) The “Nolan’s dream-scapes are dull” critique. This is something that has been referred to in a few reviews and by some friends. If the action is able to take place inside dreams, shouldn’t the settings look a lot more fantastical then just hotels and super villain lairs?
I think that the “reality” of the settings is intentional. If you can going to pull of a heist, and have someone believe that they are not dreaming (and thus, have their defenses at their lowest) then it probably makes sense for the setting to be recognizable and plausible. Especially if you are dealing with a “dream within dream” plan where you want to build credibility.
The similar criticism is that our heroes didn’t “imagine” or dream themselves to have big guns, or a faster car. I think there are two possible reasons for this. One is that the lucidity of the dream is not something you want to act on when you are in someone else’s consciousness for similar reasons to stated above. Sure they could have imagined they were in an Armored Personnel Carrier during the chase scene, but that would have just brought more attention. I also think it goes to the nature of our heroes that they prefer stealth and incongruity to big displays of force.
B) Plot Holes. This plot-hole doesn’t reduce my enjoyment of the movie, but I think it's a real hole. When Fishcer dies in the Third Level, his mind goes to Limbo, so Ellen Page and DiCaprio go after them. However, the Limbo they enter turns out to be DiCaprio’s world. I understand that DiCaprio and his wife made their life together in Limbo, but wouldn’t they be entering Fisher’s conception of Limbo, not DiCaprio’s?
C) The Ending. Yeah, I think DiCaprio is stuck in a dream. I know that the beauty of the ending that is you can chose to believe that DiCaprio made it out, and I don’t want to assert that my conclusion is “truth.” I just will write why I felt that was the case.
I believe that by being in Limbo for so long, DiCaprio performed inception on himself. He performed the inception of the idea that by rescuing Saito and completing the mission, that he will be reunited with his family. I especially love this idea that he also thinks that by confronting the Mal projection and killing her, and he believes that his demons are tamed and that he can have a full life with his children again.
The problems with this theory is that the set up is not entirely conclusive. We do see DiCaprio wake up (though we don’t see the tubes get removed), go through customs, get greeted at the airport, and make his way home. One test in Inception to determine if someone is dreaming is to ask “do you remember how you got here?” I think he would have been able to say “yes.”
I think that part of the genius of the film is that at this point, we don’t know which part of the film is just editing and which part is dreaming. Technically, DiCaprio arguably doesn’t remember his entire journey home, he only remembers waking up, materializing in immigration, then at baggage claim, then at home! No driving through traffic? Is this meant to be a hint that he is still dreaming, or is Nolan constrained by the limits of filmmaking?
Someone asked for my opinion on this and framed it as an “optimist vs. pessimist” issue. Initially, I rejected that framing and suggested and it was an evidence based framing, but I think that was too quick on my part, and doesn’t actually reflect how I felt in the theater when I saw that scene.
I did believe that DiCaprio was still stuck in his own dream, but I didn’t feel bad for him at all! He had finally found his form of solace, and had killed the demon that was haunting him. Sure it wasn’t real, and body will start wasting away and eventually turn into mush, but it was hard not to feel happy that he got some release.
(Obviously, this means the children in the real world have no daddy. This is something that is “sad” but not something that made me feel sad…)
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Depressing Economic News
This is a very depressing paragraph from a Brookings report on unemployment:
The "job gap" underlying these numbers is daunting. In recent months, on this blog, we described the job gap -- the number of jobs it would take to return to employment levels from before the Great Recession, while also accounting for the 125,000 people who enter the labor force in a typical month. After today's employment numbers, the job gap stands at almost 11.3 million jobs.
How long will it take to erase this gap? If future job growth continues at a rate of roughly 208,000 jobs per month, the average monthly job creation for the best year for job creation in the 2000s, it would take 136 months (more than 11 years). In a more optimistic scenario, with 321,000 jobs created per month, the average monthly job creation for the best year in the 1990s, it would take over 57 months (almost 5 years).
Friday, July 16, 2010
Very Important News
This is very important news:
While this was on the Huffington Post, unfortunately it is an AP story, so I can't make fun of HuffPo.
However, it does remind me of the best parody of the HuffPo ever.
While this was on the Huffington Post, unfortunately it is an AP story, so I can't make fun of HuffPo.
However, it does remind me of the best parody of the HuffPo ever.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Tea Party Tuesday
Today, Tuesday, July 13, Republicans in Alabama’s 2nd congressional district will nominate their candidate for Congress in a run-off election. Their choices are Martha Roby, a former member of the Montgomery City Council, and Rick Barber, a Tea Party candidate who released a web ad comparing taxation to the holocaust. Barber is not expected to win but he has successfully made his campaign relevant and managed to go from having no name recognition in the district to getting interviewed on cable news. It’s a far cry from where he was when he started.I distinctly remember the phone calls I did back in March when I interviewed some people about this race. Barber's candidacy was written off entirely.
While I don't expect him to win, I will be interested in his final numbers. Thankfully, I have the complete set of country-by-county data from the first primary. Once I have the results from the run-off, we will have two sets of votes to compare!
In additional to the professional interest in the race, I also had an odd personal interest as well. Rick Barber's "Slavery" ad (the one where he compared taxation to the holocaust) was the first YouTube video I saw after I returned from an extended weekend in Canada. It was a shocking reintroduction to American politics.
Romeo & Juliet as seen by Japan
What happens if you take a William Shakespeare play, and then let the Japanese get near to it? You get “Romeo x Juliet”. Also known as “Romeo and Juliet find love in a floating cities with flying horses, political oppression, and some cameos with characters from Hamlet.” I think that this is a great example of the Japanese being simultaneously creative and also completely willing to just completely disregard anything and everything about Western Canon.
Lets be honest, this would never have been made by the Cartoon Network. The opening sequence does not quite convey just how much the adaptation deviates from the source material:
I do think that this trailer gets the “you’re not in Kansa (or Verona) anymore” feeling across much better though:
Lets be honest, this would never have been made by the Cartoon Network. The opening sequence does not quite convey just how much the adaptation deviates from the source material:
I do think that this trailer gets the “you’re not in Kansa (or Verona) anymore” feeling across much better though:
How is the anime different from the regular play?
-The feud between Capulet and Montague has been given the gravitas straight out of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Now, the Capulets are the Atreides, Montagues are (sort of) the Harkonnens, and Juliet is Paul Muad’dib. Confused yet? It gets better.
-Juliet has the duel identity as a Batman-esque vigilante who fights against the injustice of Neo-Verona’s Montague overlords. She even wears a mask.
-Neo Verona is a flying city. (Self-Explanatory)
-There is a giant magical tree under the city.
-And Romeo’s father is a tyrannical despot who comes from the Evil Overlord school of governing.
As you can imagine, some liberties are taken with the plot.
Without getting into the issues of characters and story telling (spoiler alert: its cheesy and melodramatic) what does this say about cultural adaptation? How much can a piece be art be adapted to fit a new culture before it starts to become unrecognizable from the source material?
Nerds like myself can’t stand on such high ground here. We did bring Klingon Hamlet into the world.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Time to pay your exit fee!
And alas, even giving your citizenship is now basis for the US government to get more money from you! ComingAnarchy.com reports:
With no announcement and little warning, the US State Department will, effective July 13, charge US citizens a whopping $450 “processing fee” to renounce citizenship. This change was hidden in the new consular fees issued the other week, which basically slightly raised visa processing and passport fees, and substantially raised processing services related to judicial matters. The citizenship renouncement fee is the only new fee (together with getting new passport pages—I’m glad I got that a few months back!).
A processing fee! One wonders, is this meant to be a deterrent, or simply a chance to capture more revenue. Why $450? Is it a logical amount to account for the processing? Have processing rates gone up soo much that they need to make sure they can get revenue to pay for the process?
Curzon’s quote makes it seem that this fee went up along with other counsular fees, suggesting an across-the-board increase with no particular target to expatriates renouncing their citizenship.
Curzon suspects that this is do to “spite.” I wonder how you would determine if that is the case, just which bureaucrat do you interview to determine that?
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Deductive Reasoning
This Politico article argues that journalists can survive and thrive in the New Media(tm!) environment if they resign under heated or contentious circumstances.
Logically then, the only thing keeping Helen Thomas from fading into obscurity after her resignation and media kerfuffle was the lack of a twitter account.
I am not being entirely snarky. If she had an assistant who ran her site for her, and kept up her Twitter account with a steady stream of Helen Thomas-isms, then this might have been a theoretical possibility.
Logically then, the only thing keeping Helen Thomas from fading into obscurity after her resignation and media kerfuffle was the lack of a twitter account.
I am not being entirely snarky. If she had an assistant who ran her site for her, and kept up her Twitter account with a steady stream of Helen Thomas-isms, then this might have been a theoretical possibility.
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The space to write text looks more fancy, and I have way more control over my template then I used to.
Also, previews of posts actually show what the post will look like!
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