I think this one of the oddest facebook advertisements ever. I can’t tell if it’s from Facebook or from Sprint
Hotair: Family of alleged Romney victim angry over exploitation of story
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Reuters: Senate delays action on Ex-Im Bank bill
TWS: Why Mourdock Defeated Lugar
ATL: Epic Departure Memo Follow-Up: A Five-Page Fax Says The Boss Is A Great Guy
NR: Question for Scott Walker Recall Fans
Capitol Crypt: Why do staffers make so little money?
Jeff Smith: The wasteful, adrenaline-filled case against John Edwards
Reason: The Feds Would Like to Know if You Enjoyed That Video
Bomblr: Where to Cram the Apostrophe in the Names of U.S. Holidays
TheFix: Rangel is vulnerable
Softball in front of the White House #Freedom
AZ Republic: Phoenix high school baseball team balks over having to face team with a girl in title game
TheHill: Sen. Kyl: Obama equates free enterprise with ‘Gordon Gekko-style greed’
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Bloomberg: Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO
Now this is awkward.
Received this from the Potomac Nationals via facebook:
Are you single and looking for love?
Then join us Thursday May 17th for date an intern night at the Pfitz! We will be playing the dating game throughout the evening to see what lucky male or female will win an all expenses paid date with one of our four interns.
If you’re interested in being one of our lucky contestants email Zach Prehn at ZPrehn@PotomacNationals.com, include a photo and short bio of yourself and what intern you have the hots for.
If you are selected you will receive 2 free tickets to that evenings game.
Either way, I nominate Bobby Metzinger for Kristen. Or Brett. (Bobby likes fireworks.)
I received another email today about a purchase I made that makes me eligible for a class action lawsuit. As you may remember, I thought the one with Weber Grills was “bullshit.”
CNN covered this, and the webpage for the lawsuit is here.
Here’s a redacted version of the email I received:
In looking at the claims, I think they’re a little bold — I mean, come on — “The lawsuit claims that the software updates caused iPod prices to be higher than they otherwise would have been.” Far fetched? Probably, but a lot more legitimate, than say — the Weber suit. The other claim is a little more serious: “The lawsuit claims that Apple violated federal and state laws by issuing software updates in 2006 for its iPod that prevented iPods from playing songs not purchased on iTunes.”
I haven’t decided if I will opt out yet. I am not a fan of Apple for their horrible customer service and shoddy computers. Likewise, I generally dislike class-action lawsuits. The question is which do I hate less, and is staying in one worth the probably $5-20 I would get? 
Russ Roberts: Alternatives to Austerity
Loading ...Reason: Broke Arizona Town Wastes Nearly 10% of its Annual Budget Subsidizing Professional Hockey (But I do like the Coyotes, even if the subsidies are wrong.)
Landsburg: News of the Day
Weekly Standard: Obama on Biden: ‘Got Out a Little Bit Over His Skis’ (He french fried when he shoulda pizza’d. When you do that, you’re gonna have a bad time!)
Weekly Standard: No Labels Fundraises Off Lugar Defeat
Roll Call: Democrats Betting On Blong Xiong in California
Photo of the day: Children Hipsters
ArlNow: Water Pollution Control Bureau Apologizes for Smell
DCist: D.C. Council Finds Middle Ground on Extended Bar Hours
FamousDC is now selling coffee mugs
GGW: Affordable housing advocates should talk about land use… and land use advocates need to talk about affordability | WMATA still says blogs aren’t news media
ClotureClub: 14 Avengers of Congress
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HotAir: Romney apologizes for high-school pranks | Black voters in NC supported Amendment One by 2-1 margin
DailyCaller: Terrelle Pryor addresses scandal
Mojo: Ind. Senate Candidate: We Should Stop Electing Senators (Totally agree.)
Daily Caller: Obama on gay marriage: Is he a reformed bigot or a liar?
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BoingBoing: What YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest would have looked like in the ’80s and ’90s
Reason: Creating a risk free world
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Will: Taxing jobs out of existence
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AEI: How liberal are you? Take the cliché quiz (I got a 0%)
Sent to me from Cleveland by my Mom. The funny/sad part is, Eva Wimmer is not kidding. Apparently this was a real advertisement published in The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Note to you Conservative activists on the campaign trail (and liberals) — not all Evangelists are Conservatives. Some are kooky Socialists looking to bring back the New Deal, and still want prayer in schools.
H/T Mom
Today, The Washington Post asked facebook followers the following:
Classless? Yes. Classic Philly behavior? Yes. Suspension? No.
I mean, come on. Really? However, just like WTOP talk back line callers I heard this morning — people think this should be a crime.
To the unreasonable comments:
Joshua Henderson Harper should be able to press charges.
13 minutes ago • Like • 2Melba Carr well… yeah. Hasn’t there been enough publicity about concussions?
13 minutes ago • Like • 1Sarah Wells He need to be banned for life from baseball. I never liked Pete Rose and he did far less than this criminal!
9 minutes ago • Like • 1Ryan Anthony Ambrose This is assault.
7 minutes ago • LikeBonnie Moore BANNED FOR LIFE. RIDICULOUS.
6 minutes ago • LikeNolan Lemon If he actually admitted to purposely hitting a person with a 93 mph pitch, he unwittingly confessed to assault and battery.
There’s little diffence between that and a batter walking up to the mound and hitting a pitcher with a baseball bat. It’s violent. It’s battery, and there’s no place in the game for that. And (not that is matters) it was the FIRST INNING!!!
He should be suspended for at least the season. Players have been suspended for longer periods for much less.
3 minutes ago • LikeDickson Kendrick Yes. Absolutely he should.
I don’t think throwing at batters should typically be a suspendable offense. But, a crime? That is a stretch. My response to the most egregious post:
@Nolan — should people who fight in hockey, including kids, be hauled off to jail rather than the penalty box? Society needs to grow a pair.
That’s my conclusion: Society needs to grow a pair.
Mon dieu: The rather dangerous Monsieur Hollande
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Bloomberg: Discovery’s Oprah problem
CafeHayek: Show me the numbers, Krugman!
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup – Class 8 Notes Essay
Reason’s Bob Poole on How to Fix America’s Airports
RollCall: N.J. 9th District Race Pits County Vs. County
Why the Catholic vote matters in 2012 — in one map.
Best of THE SCRAPBOOK this week:
As a matter of politics, this strikes THE SCRAPBOOK as both tone deaf to real problems and condescending to women. Not to mention being a caricature of liberalism: “After years of contributing to Social Security, [Julia] receives monthly benefits that help her retire comfortably, without worrying that she’ll run out of savings. This allows her to volunteer at
a community garden.”Seriously? We’re supposed to delight in younger workers’ toiling and sweating to bankroll an actuarial blackhole so Julia can volunteer in a community garden? The reality is that without Social Security reform, which Obama has steadfastly
avoided, Julia will see Social Security benefits that help her “retire comfortably” about the time hell becomes a skating rink for disadvantaged youth.
Today on Metro, I was reading this week’s edition of Bloomberg Businessweek and was utterly stunned when I came across this paragraph:
In April, Common Cause sent a tax whistleblower complaint to the IRS, claiming ALEC is a lobbying group and seeking to strip its nonprofit status. Common Cause spokeswoman Mary Boyle says the group had been waiting for months for the right moment to lodge its complaint. “The Trayvon Martin thing was like a gift,” she says.
Common Cause is a lefty group that doesn’t like ALEC, a conservative group that educates State legislators and provides them with draft legislation — including the oft-misunderstood “Stand Your Ground Law” that you probably only know about because of the Trayvon Martin Tragedy.
Random aside: Did you know that uber liberal (and former Canadian) Gov. Granholm of Michigan who is now retired, decried the bill on television but signed it into law when she was Governor?
I almost fell out of my seat — the death of Trayvon Martin was like a gift? Seriously? I don’t see how anyone can read this an interpret in any way other than that Common Cause is exploiting the death of Trayvon Martin.
Shameless.
P.S. — Feel free to tweet/email/call Mary Boyle your thoughts.
202-736-5770
