Posts Tagged ‘Rolling Stone’
24
Feb
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley . Tagged: Bill Murray , Conor Friedersdorf , David Miranda , duke , First Look Media , Generation X , Glenn Greenwald , Matt Taibbi , NYPD , porn , Reality Bites , Roger Angell , Rolling Stone , The Intercept , UK , wall street . Leave a comment
What we read while not watching ice dancing…
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4
Nov
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley . Tagged: 9/11 , Adrian Cardenas , David Miranda , Glenn Greenwald , intellectual jokes , Jonah Keri , julian assange , Lorde , Lou Reed , love and marriage , M.I.A. , New York City subway system , Pete Holmes , Rolling Stone , technology and fiction , terrorism , The Advocate , the guardian , Walter White . Leave a comment
What we read while pondering the existential nature of time itself…
7
Oct
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley . Tagged: Breaking Bad , Bret Easton Ellis , Bryan Cranston , Dr. Seuss , Elvis Presley , female beauty , Hall of Fame , Joe Posnanski , Miley Cyrus , President Obama , Rolling Stone , Walter White . Leave a comment
What we read in our government-less dystopia…
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22
Jul
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley . Tagged: Boston bombing , credit unions , Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , espn , Fox Sports 1 , Jack Handey , mariano rivera , Occupy Wall Street , Rolling Stone , terrorism , The Newsroom . Leave a comment
What we read while conceiving the next Dauphin…
4
Feb
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley . Tagged: 30 Rock , boy meets world , dan lebatard , Dr. Oz , drones , Ed Koch , George Saunders , grant brisbee , Homeland , introverts , jim harbaugh , John Harbaugh , lorrie moore , New York City , NRA , Ray Lewis , Rolling Stone , sports illustrated photos , Super Bowl , Super Bowl Shuffle , the future of education , Tina Fey , Vin Scully . Leave a comment
What we read while tripping over the power cord at the Superdome…
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29
Oct
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley . Tagged: 2012 election , assassination czar , Barack Obama , Bob Costas , drones , euthanasia , Frankenstein , halloween , Homeland , Joe Posnanski , Mary Shelley , Matt Taibbi , Mitt Romney , Robert Wright , Rolling Stone , Stephen Colbert , Time . Leave a comment
What we read while everyone misremembered Mary Shelley’s book…
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9
Jul
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley . Tagged: america , Anonymous , Bill Murray , debtors' prison , Del Close Marathon , funny words , gq , James Murphy , LCD Soundsystem , LIBOR , milk , Rachel Maddow , Rolling Stone , wall street , wells tower . Leave a comment
What we read while getting snubbed for the All-Star Game….
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6
Feb
Posted by NPI in Monday Medley . Tagged: attractiveness , bryan caplan , facebook , Facebook IPO , Frank Rich , gay teen suicides , Ian Parker , Ken Jennings , Lana Del Rey , Mark Zuckerberg , Mitt Romney , Newt Gingrich , Pitchfork , Rolling Stone , snl , Tales of the American Police State , The New Yorker , Tyler Clementi , Whitney Cummings . Leave a comment
What we read while accidentally scoring a game-winning touchdown…
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4
Jan
Posted by John S in "We Take, Among Other Things, Umbrage" , Politics . Tagged: Barack Obama , campaign contributions , Citizens United , Dylan Ratigan , Howard Dean , Iowa caucus , John McCain , Matt Taibbi , Rolling Stone , the 1% . 2 comments
I should start this off by saying that I like Matt Taibbi. His coverage of the financial crisis and other political corruption often delves into issues ignored by most media outlets, and his acerbic wit makes for fun reading. Nevertheless, he often fixates on the wrong aspect of the scandal he’s uncovering, and that usually involves focusing on campaign contributions.
In his blog post about the Iowa caucuses, Taibbi yammers on about how contributions corrupt the campaigning process:
“[T]he ugly reality, as Dylan Ratigan continually points out, is that the candidate who raises the most money wins an astonishing 94% of the time in America.
“That damning statistic just confirms what everyone who spends any time on the campaign trail knows, which is that the presidential race is not at all about ideas, but entirely about raising money.”
This is so logically porous that it hardly needs explaining (but that won’t stop me). Continue reading →