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What Would Robert Reich Do?Posted on Aug 11, 2010
Today on the list: What Robert Reich wants to do about jobs, why liberals don’t win and how Oxytocin increases trust (guess that explains modern politics, Whole Foods and Rush Limbaugh). On a regular basis, Truthdig brings you the news items and odds and ends that found their way to Larry Gross, director of the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A specialist in media and culture, art and communication, visual communication and media portrayals of minorities, Gross helped found the field of gay and lesbian studies. The links below open in a new window. Newer ones are on top. Stanley Fish: Plagiarism Is Not a Big Moral Deal Oxytocin Increases Trust — Under Certain Conditions FOLDING ELECTRIC BIKE YOU CAN TAKE ON SUBWAY WITH YOU WHY LIBERALS DON’T WIN Empirically, it is fair to say that liberals now oppose the Second and Tenth Amendments of the Constitution and don’t give a damn about the Fourth Amendment as long as a Democratic president is dismantling it. LEVI JOHNSON WANTS TO BE SECOND MAYOR OF WASILLA TO SELL OUT TOWN TO MAKE BIG BUCKS That didn’t quite go as planned. But Johnston’s got his eye on another prize: The Wasilla, Alaska, city hall. Johnston wants to run for mayor—and yes, the cameras will be following him. As Variety wrote earlier today, Stone and Co. is shooting a pilot starring Johnston, which it then plans to shop to the networks. THE JOBS EMERGENCY AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT The Rubin Con Goes On Mr. G Is Right Advertisement New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
By Micah, August 12, 2010 at 10:46 am Link to this comment
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Draft Reich to take over some financial dept. in the Obama administration. I really thought Obama would bring in great, forward thinking, fair-minded people this Reich. This guys has always had my admiration and respect. He has his values in such a good place and very common sense about it all.
Report thisBy Shift, August 12, 2010 at 8:37 am Link to this comment
Reich has the advantage of being short so that he can see closer to the ground. Applause for Reich! It’s time to fire all the tall economists and hire the short ones.
Report thisBy FiftyGigs, August 12, 2010 at 4:09 am Link to this comment
This is so freaking astonishing.
Remember the news about Rand Paul’s college exploits? You know, kidnapping the girl?
Hundreds and hundreds of news reports. Lamestream, mainstream, left, Fox, blogs, chit-chat. All painstakingly qualifying who Rand Paul is, because, you know, nobody’s heard about him despite his being incessantly all over the media for the past few months, and despite his airing thousands of dollars of commercials himself.
News reporting. Thorough, right?
Well, scour the liberal media AND the conservative media, and do you know what you’ll find?
NOT A SINGLE REPORTER EXPLAINED WHAT A BONG HIT IS!
Stop and think about that.
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