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The Economics of Nonexistence: Love, Rock and Roll, and the Void
Posted Dec 5, 2010 at 3quarksdaily
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You're right, Brad. Google Voice does hilarious things that work as found poetry. A few I've enjoyed: "Love begins a picture." "Talk to my behavior." "I see that your skin brush fire, some of the people talking about that." One seemed to have been meant for John McCain: "Maverick, it's about how this legislation would work."
When Speech Recognition Software Attacks!
What he said: >Hi Brad, it's Mike. I had a lunchtime appointment go long and I am bolting back to Evans. I'll be there shortly. See you soon. Thanks. What Google Voice heard: >That it's mike. I had a list of women go a long and I am old thing. Back evidence. I'll be there for me to you soon. Th...
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Mar 15, 2010
An excellent example of the genre posted above, courtesy of Nick and Victor
you see this cat stoker is a bad (shut your mouth!) but I'm talking about stoker (well, we can dig him!)
Lou Dobbs sorta-kinda apologized to The Huffington Post for calling Howard Dean a "bloodsucking leftist" who can only be stopped with "a stake through the heart" - that is, if you call this an apology: "I'm sorry if a Bram Stoker allusion is too literary for some ..." Get it? It was a litera...
Nice laundry list of inaccurate, right-wing media spin points. Check out the cost inflation statistics and other economic indicators for Medicare vs. private sector healthcare and get back to me when you have.
These statements may or may not be inconvenient. But they're not truths.
On Health Reform, George F. Will Just Threw a Spitball
One could say of George Will what James Russell Lowell wrote of Emerson: "His eye for a fine, telling phrase that will carry true is like that of a backwoodsman for a rifle." Which is to say, the guy can write. But anyone who reads Will's latest screed on health reform with a critical eye might ...
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