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CorbinHiar

  1. "You know how you can tell we're in an election year? Even the sportswriters are acting like Politico." ow.ly/beozB HT @chashomans about 10 hours ago via HootSuite
  2. Lawyers recovering money from Madoff have made $554 million in fees, while paying out only $330 million to his victims: ow.ly/1MVTsT about 19 hours ago via HootSuite
  3. Why the Postal Service is broke: In 2000, about 5% of Americans paid their bills online; that number is now 60%. ow.ly/1MVLfp about 20 hours ago via HootSuite
  4. Rough weekend for Miami: Police killed a man eating another guy's face ow.ly/bcQBh & a man with a baseball bat ow.ly/bcQCd about 21 hours ago via HootSuite
  5. "Naked man who tried to eat another man’s face before he was shot dead by police was identified Monday" ow.ly/bcQGl #nottheonion about 21 hours ago via HootSuite
  6. Scary lesson of the euro crisis: International agreements, in environmental areas as well as finance, may be impossible ow.ly/1MVJnT about 21 hours ago via HootSuite
  7. If citizens have a duty to sit on juries, shouldn't the government have a duty to make the experience less painful? ow.ly/i/ES7Y about 22 hours ago via HootSuite
  8. Dominos assistant manager fired for telling customer "straddle a narwhal you chlorinated gene pool," among other things ow.ly/bcQtb 9:18 PM May 28th via HootSuite
  9. If you use these words online, the government may be spying on you: nyob.co/K7sIKr "Pork", "cloud" and "power" are on the DHS list. 1:02 PM May 28th via HootSuite
  10. RT @craigtimes Heaviest polar ice in a decade could delay start of Shell's Arctic drilling until August ow.ly/bcsdh 12:24 PM May 28th via HootSuite
  11. Newt Gingrich’s advice to anyone running for president: "Raise a lot of money" gawker.com/5913784/ 10:56 AM May 28th via HootSuite
  12. "National security is now our state religion" -- NSA whistleblower @Thomas_Drake1. (Via @TimothyS.) 10:22 AM May 28th via HootSuite
  13. Naked man shot by Miami police while eating another man's face was suffering from "cocaine psychosis": ow.ly/bcilk Or zombie-ism. 10:14 AM May 28th via HootSuite
  14. Before being fired, Hunter S Thompson published a story in the paper that called himself an "uncontrollable iconoclast" ow.ly/baF8c 11:32 AM May 26th via HootSuite
  15. Bonn climate talks end in discord and disappointment as the Durban deal unravels: bit.ly/KpY1gf Via @SEIclimate. 2:47 PM May 25th via HootSuite
  16. China has a surprisingly lax attitude about graffiti -- so long as its not political: ow.ly/ba2Yo 2:34 PM May 25th via HootSuite
  • Name Corbin Hiar
  • Location Washington, DC
  • Bio Journalist and lapsed Minnesotan. Previously worked at the Center for Public Integrity, HuffPost, and PBS MediaShift. Tip jar: corbin.hiar@gmail.com
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