He’s Really Meta: John McCain is a social media “genius.”
Who’s Lincoln? When he wasn’t ignoring Tea Party threats yesterday, Dino Rossi challenged Patty Murray to five “Lincoln-Douglas style” debates before the general election.
You First: “Great Americans give up their rights to help those they share nothing else with but a love of this country,” a Fox News host and legal analyst (they have those?) told Muslims his fellow Americans.
At Least Judges Like Rights: A King County Judge denied a subpoena for Seattle Times reporter Jonathan Martin’s notes from two interviews with alleged police murderer Christopher Monfort.
There Are No Words Just Sadness: A 10-year-old and his 12- and 14-year-old half-brothers were charged with attempted first-degree robbery for allegedly trying to steal a 17-year-old’s handgun out of his backpack while on a Metro bus in Rainier Beach.
More, Different Sadness: The White House is hitting back on Muslim rumors, trumpeting the president’s Christian faith.
Now Will He Go Away: Wyclef Jean will not be Haiti’s next president.
About Time: Class-action lawsuit will be filed against for-profit Westwood College for fraud.
Wait, For Real? Searches with “Cameron Diaz” are most likely to give you malware.
Conspiracy Theories: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused by Swedish authorities of molestation and rape in two cases. Meanwhile, Assange took to Twitter, calling the accusations a “dirty trick.” Update: and now the charges are “unfounded,” withdrawn.
Cool? Forensics expert and Columbia University professor ranks badness of murderers on a “Gradations of Evil” scale using famous 20th century murderers.
Assange charges withdrawn:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_…
Somehow I don’t think the story that the charges are wholly groundless will travel with such alacrity.
@1, 2, Julian Assange: Whoops, don’t know how I missed that. Sorry! It’s been updated.
North Korea (the WHOLE COUNTRY) joins Facebook, account is instantly trolled to death by the Internet.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/uriminzokkiri…
I credit McCain’s unparalleled skill with social media for his stunning victory in 2008.
North Korea should consider making a cyberbegging Website: http://www.savenorthkorea.kr
Can we stop using the term Lincoln-Douglas to describe debates unless they’re going to use the same rules?
And believe you me, those debates were nothing like modern ones.
McGinn – Mallahan bitchfest?
The fuck, McCaine is as “social-media savvy” as any other fucking octogenarian on twitter. Big fucking deal, his idiot woman-child of a daughter tells him to make a Jersey Shore joke now and then, he still doesn’t understand the world around him even if he owns an iPhone.