Too Much Rocky Criticism
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It would be impossible, in a short letter, to counter every argument made in your newspaper over the past few days lambasting Mayor Rocky Anderson. The short response is that Mayor Anderson is beholden to the constituents who elected him.
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I asked for advice in reducing vitriol on this blog, and a couple of readers helpfully identified a source of the problem: me. They and many others didnât like my suggestion to require commenters to use their real name. Tartuffo wrote: âAs someone who has been on the Internet since 1981, from alt.flame to the [...].
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Live Earth organizers have gone to considerable lengths to marry the global event's methods with its message, but they've been called hypocrites by critics as varied as a Congressman and one of the Who.
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By JULIAN BROUWER  MISCHA Barton's crazy party girl lifestyle was too much to deal with even for a rock star, it was claimed yesterday.
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I see that Cory Doctorow has made another panicked grab at relevancy once again! His most recent InformationWeek article, How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community, is his latest exercise in self-deception where he tries convincing himself that he knows something about the hip, happenin' thang we call the Innanet.        That Cory has little useful knowledge of keeping hostile jerks from taking over online communities is proven most aptly and amusingly by the way he chose to keep hostile jerks from taking over his weblog BoingBoing: he destroyed its community by shutting off its comments system.
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It seems even a crusty old newshound like me can get burned. My item last week about a couple naming their baby âYahooâ turns out to be a hoax cooked up by a (now-unemployed) Romanian tabloid reporter. Reporters making things up just for a laugh? I am shocked, simply shocked.Â
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I'm a big fan of Richard Stallman and his work â even though, the first time I interviewed him, he proceeded to criticise my questions before answering them, not a journalistic experience I'd had before.  Without his vision and sheer bloody-mindedness in the face of indifference and outright hostility, we would not have the vast array of free software we enjoy today.
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Mr. Mallon voiced the longing of all in politics with his suggestion that criticism of public servants is best delivered after walking a mile (or perhaps even just a couple hundred yards) in a public manâs (and presumably womanâs) shoes. The formula is even more problematic applied to a former public manâs efforts to walk [...].
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It has been well recorded that the mid-nineties are best known for sudden popularity of independent cinema, but independent from what? The term "indie" is as slippery when applied to films as it is to music. The studio at the vanguard of this "revolution" was Miramax, which was long a subsidiary of Disney, and as for the "revolution" itself, it unleashed more painful and derivative Pulp Fiction clones than it did anything truly revolutionary. It was bled dry, turned inside out, repackaged, and sold back to the masses until it became the paradigm of unhipness. This seems to be the nature of all revolutions, from the Soviets to the Sixties; the bullshit always comes full circle.     While it's easy to be cynical of all so-called revolutions in hindsight, what one can't be cynical about is the intense enthusiasm audiences had for the so-called independent cinema of this era. To every person who ever dreamed of being in the director's chair, it seemed like all one needed to have the new hit movie was a vast knowledge of pop culture, the ability to write pages worth of rambling dialogue, and a Visa card.
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Tycho:  Our newest comic is available here, regarding the blogger that Nintendo fired recently.  As usual, Gabriel and I disagree absolutely on virtually every point of this discussion, my own perspective favoring greater liberty while he presents a naked defense of fascism.  The two universal axioms we were both able to agree upon were that:
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Recently, there's been a bit of a brouhaha in the news about a Miss Teen USA 2007 contestant stumbling over what should have been a simple geography/education question (watch the video in all its schadenfreude glory).  This kind of slow news day reporting is not terribly interesting in and of itself, but it got me thinking about Mike Tyson.
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As if custody battles themselves aren't nasty enough, this one   is getting downright contemptuous. Maybe.
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It&#39;s violent. It&#39;s profane and politically incorrect. It&#39;s packed wall to wall with tough thugs doing terrible things.
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Two provocative books criticizing homework came out recently. Both are by reputable, well-informed authors, so I was surprised to find these good people trying to get away with hyperbole and incomplete data unworthy of them.
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The reservations expressed on this page about the prospective takeover of resource giant Noranda by state-owned China Minmetals have come in for a barrage of muddled criticism.
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There is a lot of unreasonable second-guessing and finger-pointing that goes on in the business world. It just comes with the territory any time mistakes cost money.
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It has been ridiculed by critics and shunned by cinema-goers but the latest film from the controversial director Oliver Stone has still managed to raise hackles across the US.