linkspam feels territorial about Dillon, Texas

[cofax7]

So, vidders: what's the word on Cory Doctorow's Pirate Cinema, in which a young man uses the power of remix to save the world? (Apparently you can download the book for free at the above link.)

Connie Britton's new show Nashville starts tonight, and it's being heralded as the best show of the new television season.

Nobel prizes in quackpottery,

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[minnow1212]

>Romney has started quoting Friday Night Lights in his speeches. Specifically, "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose." I am affronted.<

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No. That is just flat wrong.

[cofax7]

Indeed. As Heresluck pointed out on DW, Romney appears not to have noticed that most of the cast are members of his 47%...

[eregyrn]

Isn't that classic, though? There's an awful lot of people who ARE part of his 47%, but who don't conceive of themselves as being so. Which is how you get so much of the Republican base, who totally support what Romney said because they don't think he was talking about THEM.

That whole thing was basically coded othering, on the meta-level. I have no trouble believing that in Romney's mind, in the mind of the wealthy he was speaking to, and in the minds of those who *do* receive the benefits he was denigrating, that his remarks were mainly meant to suggest a comfortably faceless Other. You know, those people. You know the ones. It's never about specific people with specific faces and stories. It's about a generalized bogeyman

[raincitygirl]

Neat piece in the guardian.

[fourteenlines]

How does one get to be an expert on the apocalypse, I wonder???

And if nothing else, a political candidate proclaiming he "can't lose" seems at best shockingly hubristic, even if it is a quote.