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  1. @mathewi In fact, the whole "feeling smug" stance in the lede is worse than any reaction on Twitter. This Carr guy should learn humility.
  2. @mathewi Yeah, I read Carr's piece and had the same takeaway. It's not ego. It's the compulsion to know and feel, even with bad intel.
  3. Cures for furious dispositions: Wodehouse's wonderfully omniscient sentences and Waugh's absurd subtleties (in the earlier books, at least).
  4. Joe Lieberman pledges to filibuster if a public option is presented before the Senate. http://bit.ly/3CxtjG Someone T.P. this guy's house.
  5. Stupak: "Laaaaady, don'tcha know we luv ya / Sweet laaaaady, place no health care for ya"
  6. Now listening to Stupak Shakur's "Stupakalypse Now." Really disturbing album. Glad Stupak isn't rapping anymore. Oh wait...
  7. @TheOccasional Read David K. Shipler's THE WORKING POOR and Howard Karger's SHORTCHANGED to see how these "benefits" have hurt lives.
  8. Dennis Kucinich: Why I voted NO. http://bit.ly/3RyH45
  9. More on the misogynistic anti-abortion Stupak amendment. http://bit.ly/ocMwc
  10. RT @brooklyn377 The poor always seem excluded.. and the language ambiguous.. http://bit.ly/KTvDR (link via @Caterina )
  11. @TheOccasional WRA was reliant on economy. What came? The rise of predatory lending the decline of income among the working poor.
  12. The positive: prohibiting preexisting condition exclusions, nondiscrimination. The negative: murky public option.
  13. Without a public option, this bill has the potential to be as evil as the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. Good on Kucinich for voting against it.
  14. Since the working poor are forced to pay for health care they can't afford (or be fined), how are we "providing" health care to the people?
  15. Now HERE is how you block a film scene. Watch the guys creeping in the back and jumping up at the door. http://bit.ly/2XrN74
  16. .@ZoeRochelle @littlefluffycat Nonfiction. Have clippings, but looking for books. I tried out John Perkins's memoir, but it was unsuitable.
  17. A query to the Twitterverse! I'm looking for good books on corporate espionage for research purposes. Can you recommend any? Thanks.
  18. @jasonpinter Fair point. My point here is that Pixar could take MORE risks and get away with it, while pushing the emotional envelope.
  19. @jasonpinter Jacques Tati bankrupted himself to give us his stunning masterpiece PLAYTIME. THAT is a risk.
  20. @Joe_Wallace @jasonpinter @sarahw But since Pixar has made so much money and can afford to take a risk, why not be touched AND challenged?