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more about #valleywag more comments → Mo MoDo: Outraged: Pitchfork waving mad. Surprised: Not in the least. #healthcare more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Lobbyists also write the bills that become the laws. So how do we go about buying some for ourselves, instead of letting them all be bought by those w... more » TheBusinessGuy: Here's what shows the legs this story will have even among us elites: as of this writing, 700 views for this story, over 4300 for the gossip round up... more » MissNormaDesmond: It's not really shocking if you're aware, as someone else pointed out, that lobbyists already write most legislation. It's just a little more blatant... more » TheSometimesWhy: So basically Big Pharma's relationship to Congress is a lot like the one I had with my favorite puppet as a kid. I would slip my hand up its ass and ... more » Spirit Fingers: Sounds very S.S.D.D. (Same shit, different day.) on the hill or as I like to call it...lazy fucking politicians legislating from within a coma. Also,... more » ShanghaiLil: That whimper you've been hearing late at night and have tried and tried to figure out where it's coming from? Is there a possum or a feral cat or som... more » ShanghaiLil: That whimper you've been hearing late at night and have tried and tried to figure out where it's coming from? Is there a possum or a feral cat or som... more » MisterHippity: Go get 'em, Foster! #healthcare more » mfnher: Yeah, they also help write many of the bills for legislators. The fact is that politicians cannot be subject matter experts on everything. Lobbyists ... more » TheBusinessGuy: The truly sad thing is that for most of the American people, this will be a one-day story, and on a Sunday at that. Why? Since the revised and exten... more » TheCaliDude: Countdown to when commenters start posting fake death notices to #tips in 5, 4, 3, 2... #twitter more » Drunken Economist: This has nothing to do with piracy, which all software companies have to cope with and include in their cost of doing business. This has EVERYTHING t... more » minou: When a tree really does fall on Hamilton, see if anyone believes you. (Yeah, I clicked through. So maybe you get a D+.) more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: icanhazmadsocialmediaskillz #twitter more » -
#disasters
Cornell Employees' Email Blunder from Hell
A tech consultant at Cornell University somehow CCed the entire campus emails to his mistress, a Cornell staffer and fellow married person. The naughty man is in no position to be "SPANKING that FINE ASS of yours" now! More » -
#newgods
Facebook: Making Lives and Breaking Lives
There comes a time when our virtual idols, like Facebook, take on a God-like quality. Such is the case in two separate, but ultimately connected, incidents. One saved lives. The other destroyed one. More » -
#scandal
How the Crescent City Revealed Wired's Plagiarizing Editor
How did the Virginia Quarterly Review connect Chris Anderson's book to Wikipedia, thus unraveling a plagiarism scandal? A strange use of parentheses. More » -
#scandal
Did Apple's Ex-CFO Rat Out Steve Jobs?
Forbes has a cover story on how Steve Jobs got himself in hot water with the SEC over stock options. The magazine is part-owned by former Apple CFO Fred Anderson. Do the math. More » -
#scandal
Is the New Foursquare Too Much Like the Old Dodgeball for Google?
Even though Google killed Dodgeball, Dennis Crowley reassured the socially inept that they'd still be able to find their friends at bars with his newly launched Foursquare. One problem: it may not be his. More » -
#crime
Obama's Top Geek on Leave after Minion Charged with Seeking $6 Million in Bribes
Vivek Kundra, the White House's chief information officer, has been placed on leave after Yusuf Acar, a technology manager in the D.C. government who previously worked for Kundra, was arrested on bribery charges. More » -
#scandal
D.C. Bribery Scheme Unfolded Under Obama Geek's Nose
FBI agents have raided the former office of Vivek Kundra, a D.C. official tapped to be Barack Obama's chief information officer. A Kundra lieutenant has been arrested on bribery charges. But Kundra's clear, we think! More » -
