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Originally posted to Daily Kos.

I've been online for 21 years this month, so I've seen all kinds of things online. One of the most persistent phenomena of the internet, whether the pre-web days of bulletin board systems (BBS's) and Usenet, the Web 1.0 days of discussion forums, or today's Web 2.0 environment of blogs, Twitter, and Facebook, are ( Read more... )

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UCLA: UCLA News Week: Nov. 17, 2010

Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Robert Cargill unravels a strange case of academic cyberbullying in this edition of UCLA News Week, the weekly videocast of research and other developments at UCLA ( Read more... )

Crossposted to we_love_nebris and ontd_political, where it is awaiting moderation. A version without embeds is crossposted at political_wank on JournalFen.

Gawker: Twittergate: How Internet Jerks Pranked the Tea PartyThe best way to deal with jerks online is to ignore them. But when prominent Tea Partiers on Twitter started being harassed by a group of Internet trolls, they ( Read more... )

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I'm worried.

After seeing the McCain/Palin rallies the past few days and reading about what the crowd was like, I'm almost tempted to think that the McCain/Palin campaign has given up on winning and decided to so whip up their wingnut base that they will be in an ugly enough mood to not only throw a mass fit when Obama wins, but be inspired to do ( Read more... )

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( Story from WXYZ-TV in Detroit. )

Politico: RNC rejects joint 'civility' statement

Here’s what they wouldn’t sign that that Democrats proposed.

a document … that, in part, called for “elected officials of both parties to set an example of the civility we want to see in our citizenry.

We also call on all Americans to respect differences of opinion, to refrain from inappropriate ( Read more... )

...or else their writers wouldn't come up with material like this.

Police Are on the Lookout for Man Who Bit Taxi Driver
By: Dan Amira

A man who pulled a gun on a taxi driver, and then bit him "repeatedly on the neck, arm and back" in the struggle that followed, is being sought by the NYPD. He is described as being around 30 years old, six feet ( Read more... )

I've lived out in exurbia and semi-rural areas for more than a decade. In that time, I've witnessed more crime and depravity there than in all my time in the city. Here are the highlights, in chronological order ( Read more... )