SAN FRANCISCO _ Dressed in his trademark hoodie and jeans, Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg kicked off a cross-country road show to pitch his company’s initial public stock offering. Hundreds of institutional investors stood in long lines Monday to pile into a ballroom at New York’s Sheraton Hotel to hear the billion-dollar pitch from the [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Economics, Entrepreneurs, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Internet, Law, Media, Politics, Popular culture, Society, Technology
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Tagged america, barack obama, crime, Facebook, hoodie, mark zuckerberg, social media, trayvon martin, US politics, USA
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[SL: After a lengthy discussion with Legal Eagle and DeusExMacintosh, we have decided to revise our earlier 'girls only' policy and invite Lorenzo to be one of our writers. He has written half-a-dozen superb pieces for the blog over the last year, and if I see one more piece on his own site that makes me [...]
What would Joseph Kony do If he were here right now? He’d burn a blond gay muppet or two, That’s what Joseph Kony’d do. Last week, it emerged that the M25 — for those not in the know, the ‘London Orbital’ and Britain’s biggest carpark — was turning into a tourist attraction, presumably by means of [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Britain, Children, Fark!, Funnies, Internet, Marriage, Popular culture, Public Policy, Religion, Sexuality, Skeptics
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Tagged #Kony2012., Aaron Stewart-Ahn, charity, Charlie Brooker, gay rights, Glee, homophobia, Invisible Children, Jason Russell, jon stewart, Joseph Kony, Justin Beiber, Matt Stone, Médecins Sans Frontières, Nietzsche, Patrick Barkham, ressentiment, Russell Blackford, Sokal Hoax, South Park, Teju Cole, Tracey Rowland, Trey Parker, Uganda, Zoolander
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January 29, 2012 – 7:36 am
I promise that this will be our last shoe post. Yes, really! DeusExMacintosh came up with the idea, which I then executed. She was unable to find suitable pictures on which to exercise her black belt in photoshop, you see, so I stepped in. Why, you may wonder, do I not do this sort of [...]
January 28, 2012 – 3:47 am
JULIA Gillard’s office has been rocked by the resignation of a media adviser who helped spread information used to incite an Aboriginal tent embassy riot. Tony Hodges, who has worked in the Prime Minister’s office since 2009, told an unnamed source that Tony Abbott would be at an awards ceremony near to the Aboriginal tent [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Fark!, Politics, Popular culture, Society
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Tagged Aboriginal Tent Embassy, AFP, Australia Day, australian federal police, Australian politics, canberra, Julia Gillard, julia gillard's shoe, security, the Australian Labor Party, the Australian Liberal Party, the lobby restaurant, the petrov affair, tony abbot, Tony Hodges
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January 27, 2012 – 8:36 pm
I am stealing this observation from regular commenter Nick Ferrett, because it bears repeating: So Tony Hodges, the PM’s senior media advisor has resigned after disclosing to the tent embassy people that Abbott was at the Lobby Restaurant with Gillard. OK, you people are now officially too stupid to be in government. Leave aside the morality [...]
January 27, 2012 – 10:01 am
I have to say that I am pretty unimpressed with the actions of the activists who forced Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to flee the Lobby Restaurant yesterday, where she was attending an Australia Day function to celebrate emergency services. For non-Australian readers, yesterday was Australia Day, a public holiday which falls on the anniversary [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australia, Free Speech, History, Politics, Society, The Left, The Right
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Tagged Aboriginal Tent Embassy, aborigines, activism, australia, Australia Day, Australian politics, indigenous issues, Julia Gillard, Michael Anderson, persuasion, protest, protesters, riots, social justice, tent embassy, Tony Abbott, violence
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January 6, 2012 – 7:54 am
Shadow Health Minister Diane Abbott has apologised for any offence caused by comments she made on Twitter, after claims they were racist. She said she had not meant to generalise when she wrote: ”White people love playing ‘divide & rule’” … In a statement, Ms Abbott said: “I apologise for any offence caused. I understand people have interpreted [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Funnies, Politics
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Tagged david cameron, DIane Abbot, ed miliband, social networking, too many tweets make a twat, tweeting, tweets, twitter, UK labour party
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December 20, 2011 – 7:16 am
Appearing on the 98.9 Queensland radio station – an Indigenous, government funded radio station – Meryl Dorey is now advising the listeners in rural and remote areas on vaccinations. Here’s some of the transcript that I’ve made: ———————- Tiga Bayles: Today I have an interesting guest with an interesting topic; we’re talking about freedom of [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Drugs, Education, Free Speech, Funnies, Media, Politics, Popular culture, Skeptics, Society
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Tagged anti-vaxxers, AVR, dopey dorey, kylie sturgess, meryl dorey, tiga bayles, token skeptic, vaccination
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October 18, 2011 – 1:40 am
PARENTS who allow their children to become truants will lose welfare payments under Labor’s plan to toughen elements of the Northern Territory intervention after a report found widespread acceptance of the controversial program in Aboriginal communities. In a redesign of its attack on indigenous disadvantage, the Gillard government will announce plans to legislate to continue [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Drugs, Economics, Funnies, Law, Politics, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged alcohol, Australian Labor Party, indigenous affairs, jenny macklin, Julia Gillard, northern territory intervention
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