CNN has been widely criticized for its breathless, seemingly non-stop coverage of the Malaysian Airlines disaster.

Obama complains that he rarely gets coverage on the network and that going to Malaysia was a ploy to actually get in front of CNN’s cameras.

Was slated…

Rice announced just three days after this open letter that she would not be delivering the commencement address.

Rutgers would not bring the rice out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXOVA1n5zvQ

The faculty council had already drafted and approved a resolution condemning the selection of Rice in February.

WHEREAS Condoleezza Rice, as National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, played a prominent role in his administration’s efforts to mislead the American people about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the existence of links between al Qaeda and the Iraqi regime…

Obama smoked cigarettes until early in his tenure as president. 100s are longer cigarettes (below, left):

The president refers to Sherman’s famous post-game “rant”, in which he told Erin Andrews:

Well I’m the best corner in the game! When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that’s the result you gon' get! Don’t you ever talk about me!

The rant resulted in national discourse on race and the perception of black male athletes.

They’d be high on your list, maybe, but those who stand to gain from new technology will find exploitative uses like they always have.

Let us recall the wave of futurism in the 1960s, when the promise of industrial automation convinced (quite foolish) optimists that having machines perform our work would result in an incredible wealth of leisure time. We’d live in a “leisure society,” predicted Time magazine in 1966. “How to use leisure meaningfully will be a major problem.” In his popular 1970 book Future Shock, Alvin Toffler agreed, predicting we’d need “leisure counselors.” Way back in 1929, the futurists of that age would hopefully conclude that “the machine is creating leisure, and we now need schools to instruct us in its use.”

Instead, we’re expected more and more to work even when not at the office. For many, one never really leaves the office; the office goes home with her in her pocket smartphone.

Shocker! Capitalism found ways to put us to work, now often with lower wages than before. Somewhere an auto worker displaced by automation is running a register at Walmart or dunking fries in a fryer. Somewhere a talented seamstress found herself at a telemarketing call center.

These Austrian kids from The Sound of Music: