It's a good story and Jobs is a fascinating character.But am I the only one struck by the amateurish quality of Issacson's prose? He writes like a college freshman. I've never read any of his other biographies, but know they're critically acclaimed. Are they all written like this?
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Saw them years ago with +Michael Wheeler at the Shelter in Detroit (the place Eminem had his rap battle in "8 Mile").
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Pop & Disorderly
Pop & Disorderly, an album by Limp on Spotify.
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Looks like people have been adding me to their circles on Google+ at a pretty regular clip. I'm just curious now who everyone is — and what made you decide to circle me. Is it my fiction writing? My political stuff? Just that you saw I work at the Cato Institute?
Let me know. If nothing else, it'll help me get a better handle on the kinds of things I ought to post here.
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My good friend +Miles Pope, who will be joining me as a blogger at the soon-to-launch Libertarianism.org, offers this great alternative take on what #OWS is all about.
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OWS Redux
I've now visited Occupy Wall Street twice. I've talked to a few people, listened to a General Assembly, and observed the milieu. My sense is that OWS's raison d'être has been widely mischaracteriz…
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CSS3 support and embedded fonts are going to rock in making ebooks look oh-so-much better than they do now.
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Kindle Format 8 Overview
Kindle Format 8 Overview
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+Wil Wheaton continues to offer great examples of what political thinking looks like when you can't entertain the possibility of genuine and reasonable disagreement. The policies Wil supports are clearly, obviously, without-a-doubt correct. He's quite sure of that. So the only reason people might vote differently from Wil is because they're evil and hate America (Congressional Republicans, say) or because they've been duped, as in the quote below.
Please don't make this mistake. Don't be like Wil. If you find yourself disagreeing about policy, consider first that your interlocutor may have a different take on the empirical data or that he has a legitimate and considered difference of opinion about fundamental assumptions. He may still be wrong, of course, but it's probably not because he's evil or stupid.
+Wil Wheaton is not stupid or evil. But from his posts, it's a safe bet he'd think I am. And it's also a safe bet, I assure you, that I'm not.
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This bears repeating:"The greatest hoax of the last couple of decades has been the ability of the right wing to co-opt members of the struggling lower middle class and lower class and pretend they speak for them while enacting policies that enable the super-rich. They’ve used wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion and the baby Jeebus to alienate folks from their own economic interests, feeding them a steady diet of hatred of minorites, the educated, science, and, well, reality to create a voting block of people so guided by hatred of the 'other' that they would crawl over broken glass to cut their nose off to spite their face."
-John Cole
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And also a great lesson in how to actually make the world better.Says Jobs in the piece, after a visit to India while he was young, "It was one of the first times I started thinking that maybe Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx and Neem Karoli Baba [a guru] put together."The #OWS kids could learn a lot from that. http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-steve-jobs-nobody-knew-20111012
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Don't copy that floppy! Taking it back to the old skool!
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Maybe #OWS doesn't really represent 99% of Americans: "The Hill poll found that only one in three likely voters blames Wall Street for the country's financial troubles, whereas more than half — 56 percent — blame Washington."
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Yet Another Poll: Economy Is Washington's Fault, Not Wall Street's
Don't know how it got to be Poll Day on Hit & Run (see previous posts by Nick Gillespie and Katherine Mangu-Ward), but here's another new survey from
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I'm putting the finishing touches on the reading lists on the soon-to-launch Libertarianism.org and one of them is "Critics of Liberty." So I'm curious, what do you all think is the most powerful and/or interesting anti-libertarian book or essay?
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