'I'm your social media guru'

H/T Katherine Mangu-Ward at Reason magazine’s Hit-and-Run blog. In August The Bloggess, whom I love pure and chaste from afar, wrote “How not to get fired for using social networking” — speaking of which, while you’re in the neighborhood, I also recommend her post, “Get my husband off Facebook” — I adore her husband, Victor, …

NY Times to cut 100 newsroom jobs

New York, New York, Oct. 19 — The New York Times announced today that it will cut 100 jobs from its newsroom staff by the end of 2009 thanks to efficiencies resulting from publishing only stories dictated or approved by the Obama administration. “With advertising revenues plummeting because we can’t figure out how to compete …

Obama's new two-part plan for Afghanistan

Prof. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has some pointed questions for Obama about his plans for the war in Afghanistan: And what about the Obama administration’s new strategy announced last March: “Today, I am announcing a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. And this marks the conclusion of a careful policy review, led by Bruce …

UPDATED — Rachel Maddow springs to the defense of ACORN

Because election fraud doesn’t just commit itself: Rachel Maddow is joined by Occidental College politics professor Peter Dreier, who authored a study on how myths about ACORN were manufactured and how easily the mainstream media–not just the right wing media –was led into reporting falsehoods. (I can’t get the video to embed properly here — …

Obama chooses negotiating with raging wildfires instead of raging queens

Obama enraged homosexuals on Saturday when he failed to set a deadline, or state any kind of timetable, to keep his campaign promises of enacting legislation that would bring homosexuals closer to first-class citizenship: repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and enacting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. When presented with the …