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more about #valleywag more comments → PontiusPirate: Never trust a guy who has an aspiring male model on the payroll whose sole job is to troll blogs and post cut & paste comments about how awesome he (P... more » cmd: Mmmm. Always love an Intern Neel update. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto more » insidefb: I consider Mark a friend but he has lied to me on more than one occasion. more » Benny: Never heard of this guy, but this article has my agenda radar going berserk. His comments about that class hardly show him to be cynical about ethics... more » Bos'un's Mate: Pogue is a very good technology critic and observer, but a visionary? No. #davidpogue more » forwardmotion: In his defense: most graduate seminars in whatever subject that last 1-4 weeks are generally bullshit. #markpincus more » Mediahohoho: The Republican party will take help wherever they can find it. If no existing (and/or self-respecting) media outlet will not report the spin they want... more » heartbreakturnip: In order: "Help me Howard" "Help me God" "Help me grow" "Help me Rhonda" #google more » heartbreakturnip: Many of these sound like the questions of lazy term paper writers. #google more » heywhat: She actually went through a vetting process? That's rich. And where is all of this going? Is she just going to continue to take jabs at everyone and h... more » misslinda: Hello Politico? You there? Remember Harriet Miers? Bush's personal attorney who worked on his 2000 campaign? Who he later nominated to the Supreme Cou... more » TheCaliDude: Try "Will she" and "Will he" for sad results. #google more » shostakobitch: Couldn't agree with you more. Another example of this is nuclear weapons. Sure a bunch of hippies thought they might "explode" and kill us all but n... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I heard that the editors of Politico enjoy goatfucking. Questions arise whether that is true. But now that it's out there, it would be irresponsible n... more » Trixie from Toronto: How do you know those criticizing him didn't contact Politico first? #politico more » -
#politics
Carly Fiorina Bravely Attacks Uppity Woman Senator
Carly Fiorina is already elevating the political discourse in California: The former Hewlett Packard CEO is emailing ads about that one time her opponent politely asked a general to call her "senator" instead of "m'aam," like an arrogant bitch. More » -
#carlyforniadreamin
Carly Fiorina Announces Senate Candidacy, Immediately Highlights Political Ignorance
It's fitting that Carly Fiorinia just announced her senate candidacy with the word "Admittedly." The former HP CEO hated voting, and promises to be more engaged in politics now. Too bad she's still proving her apathy. More » -
#politics
Gavin Newsom Will Not Be Governor of California (This Time)
Slick-headed Gavin Newsom has dropped out of the race for California governor, because he's doing terribly in the polls and can't raise any real money. Oh, also his "young family." Now he's stuck running his all-too-filthy city again. More » -
#politics
Twitter Violates Republicans' Right to Impersonate Enemies
Republicans set up 33 — 33! — fake Twitter accounts in the names of Democratic state representatives from Connecticut. Twitter Inc. shut the accounts down, "stopping free speech," say Republicans, and retarding innovation indefamationsatire. Typical San Francisco communism. -
#flackery
Facebook's New Flack: Pretty But Dumb?
Facebook has named Andrew Noyes, one of the 50 prettiest people in DC, as its public policy communications manager. But the Congress Daily-reporter-turned-flack is already muddling Facebook's message: More » -
#craigslist
Right to 'Erotic Services' Upheld By Federal Judge
A U.S. district court judge has rejected an Illinois sheriff's bid to shut down Craigslist's erotic services category. You can't spank the website, the judge ruled, for the actions of some naughty, naughty prostitutes. More » -
#fameballs
Meghan McCain Swears She'll Quit Twitter If You Can't Deal With Her Boobs
Meghan McCain says she plans to "get the fuck off Twitter" since so many users of the microblogging service are hating on a maverick picture she posted of her maverick cleavage. Oh, please. She's a fameball. She's going nowhere. More » -
#conspiracies
How the Swine Flu Joined Glenn Beck and the Huffington Post
Combine two dashes of the Huffington Post's culty, medicine-fearing "Living" section and one dash of Fox News' craziest host, and you've got Love in the Time of Swine Flu. Not even Dr. Dean Ornish could stop these paranoid fellow-travelers. More » -
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#politics
Another Botched Sales Job for Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina became CEO of Hewlett Packard on the strength of her reputation as a sales dynamo. In politics, though, she's been a terrible saleswoman. And this "Carlyfornia" website for her senate campaign is somehow Fiorina's worst embarrassment yet. More » -
#peterthiel
ACORN-Buster's Secret Conservative Sugar Daddy
So much for James O'Keefe as the scrappy, independent sparkplug of conservative media. The 25-year-old, who famously embarrassed ACORN on YouTube, got a five-figure sum that traces back to at least one rich conservative, well known to Silicon Valley. More » -
#gavinnewsom
Childbirth Twittered By Mayor of Overshare City
Gavin Newsom, the heavily-lacquered lefty-sun-God mayor of San Francisco, has the most progressive technological track record of any California gubernatorial candidate, now that he's live-tweeting the birth of his first child. San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. must be so proud. -
#conspiracytheories
Government 'Mind-Mapping' Scheme Inspired by Google Buddies
Here's the stuff of conservative nightmares: The Obama administration wants to "mind map" America using computers, inspired by the Big Brother of Silicon Valley More » -
#politics
Gavin Newsom to Ruin Governor's Race by Not Participating?
Noooooo: a conspiracy-minded blog is floating a rumor that Gavin Newsom is dropping out of the race. Who will play fitting successor to Arnold Schwarzenegger if not boozing, other-guy's-wife-fucking, threesome-actress-marrying, fameballer-family-having, Twitter-obsessed, gay-marrying San Francisco mayor? More » -
#shutuptwitter
Coastal Elites Can't Decide: Is Twitter a Force for Good or Evil?
Have you heard? All the trouble the president's been having with his health care initiative is Twitter's fault. So says ad man James Othmer in a New York Times op-ed. Wait, wasn't Twitter saving Iranian democracy like 10 minutes ago? More » -
#apologies
Sorry About the Gay Witchhunt, Alan Turing
The online petition is just about the least convincing showcase of political will yet devised. But it can still trigger meaningful action, like the British Prime Minister's apology to the late computer science pioneer Alan Turing, persecuted for being gay. More » -
#crime
Andrew Sullivan's Federal Pot Favors
That frenetic political blogger Andrew Sullivan emerged as a loud proponent of marijuana legalization is no surprise; the Catholic gay British conservative is nothing if not idiosyncratic. What is odd is that federal prosecutors want to legalize Sullivan's pot bust. More » -
#politics
Meg Whitman Just Wishes She Was a Powerful Woman
Meg Whitman skipped the first major forum of California's gubernatorial candidates to attend Fortune's "Powerful Women" summit. This caused a big to-do. Now Fortune's released its list of powerful women, and guess who's been shut out? More » -
#google
Google, The World's Solar Savior?
Google was once happy to help us find things on the wild, wild web. The company has obviously grown past that point, but could it soon be savior of the entire world? Possibly and probably. More » -
#rights
Chinese Government Closes In On Anonymous Commenters
Hey, Commenters! Wouldn't that suck if you had to comment under your real names? The New York Times reports today that the Chinese government issued a confidential edict last month: commenters on China's news sites must use their real identities.
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#sexwars
Why Is Wikipedia a Boys Club? Men Are Dumb
Only about one in eight Wikipedia contributors and editors are women, according to a study by the online encyclopedia's own nonprofit operator. An unfortunate example of sexism? More like an example of the easily conned male ego. More »
