Blog Roundup

From Business Insider, Reddit co-Founder Alexis Ohanian talks about the potential devastation SOPA will inflict on the technology and internet industry. For those of you unaware, SOPA is bill in the House of Representatives pushed by the major media companies that will potentially make linking to copyrighted material illegal.

Rob Boston at AlterNet has a great article on five of America’s founding fathers whose skepticism about religion and Christianity would make them unelectable today. Who knew that George Washington and John Adams were so against the use of religion in public and political spheres?

Quick hits: At Daily Kos, Kaili Joy Gray writes about her ridiculous experience with Bank of America that continues over 2 years after her husband passed away. Rude Pundit takes on 10 years of Gitmo, Balloon Juice has it’s own 10 year anniversary, and Politics USA talks about how the GOP has put the Bible ahead of country and constitution. And of course, stick to your New Years resolutions and lose weight naturally with BuiltLean!

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Obesity costs America a ton of money. Jack Lalanne pulled 70 boats filled with 70 people each… at age 70. Everyone loves to hate Scumbag Steve (and he’s back!). And don’t forget about his ol’ timey medieval ancestor, Scoundrel Stefano. This guy seems totally legit.

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Sorry for the lack of updates on the world of all things blog. We’ve been busy blogging ourselves into a damn corner over here. But here we go:

Do you want to hear Barack Obama say “That guy ain’t shit. Sorry ass motherfucker”? Well, now you can, because April Winchell uploaded all of the incredible cursing from Dreams From My Father into one blog post, aptly titled Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking shit.
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Sorry for the hiatus folks! We were busy developing our own blog so we didn’t have time to check out other peoples blogs… until now. So let’s get things started.

There’s:

• The 80′s Synth Melody

• One tank of ethanol contains enough grain to feed one African for a year

• If Juno Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest (I’m sorry I’m 1 year late with this)

• How to save 150 dollars on your Comcast cable and internet bill

• How to Inoculate Your Children Against Advertising

• New York Before & After Cars

• Sun Tzu’s Wisdom, And It Does Not Look Good For America

• Medical reasons to have Sex Everyday

• What Life Was Like In Pakistan in 1948 in Pictures

• And since we are all hermetic nerds who have no comprehension of other humans, The Critical 7 Rules To Understand People

And remember, check out the other PBH Network blogs: there’s PBH2, PBH3, Die Guido Die and Die Hipster Die.

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Look, everybody! Our betters are Harvard Business School are telling us how the world should work again:

There’s a tectonic shift rocking the social, political, and economic landscape. The last two points above are what express it most concisely. I hate labels, but I’m going to employ a flawed, imperfect one: Generation “M.”

What do the “M”s in Generation M stand for? The first is for a movement. It’s a little bit about age — but mostly about a growing number of people who are acting very differently. They are doing meaningful stuff that matters the most. Those are the second, third, and fourth “M”s.

Gen M is about passion, responsibility, authenticity, and challenging yesterday’s way of everything. Everywhere I look, I see an explosion of Gen M businesses, NGOs, open-source communities, local initiatives, government.

Here’s what it looks like to me: every generation has a challenge, and this, I think, is ours: to foot the bill for yesterday’s profligacy — and to create, instead, an authentically, sustainably shared prosperity.

Yep, you read that right! Generation M! Harvard Business School! Sustainably shared prosperity! Apparently, 3 years at upper-class day camp gives this guy the tremendous perspective that there are things wrong with this world.

Wake up call: You go to Harvard. You go to Business School. You are what is wrong with this world. No one wants to be associated with the criminal excesses you partake in, your fucked-up money first mentality, your undeserved smugness, or your idiotic jingoism that thinly covers your predatory behavior. No matter your age or ‘perspective’, no one with common sense or decency wants to be lectured by an over-privileged MBA-getting dipshit. Do the rest of us a favor and confine yourself to Goldman Sachs and the Wall Street Journal.

PS. You make Thomas Friedman seem intelligent.

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I have some really, really, really sad news everybody. Mia Farrow is putting herself in harms way to alleviate the poverty of the Sudanese people. How brave, how noble a lady she is to stop eating food for a couple of weeks in the comfort of her own food, just to raise awareness for third world peoples! Wrong rights explains:

Well, if the hundreds of thousands displaced or dead in Darfur weren’t bad enough already, now the violence is impacting the well-being of our nation’s precious celebrities. Actress Mia Farrow recently announced that next week she will begin a hunger strike in solidarity with the (very hungry) people of Darfur…

And am I the only one who expects to see the “Darfur Diet” popping up in next month’s Cosmopolitan magazine as a great way to get in shape for bikini season and attract the attention of that cute “activist” boy who hangs out at your local fair trade coffee shop?

Meanwhile on Wall Street, everyone’s stealing our money and we’re smiling with watermelon and cow shit on our teeth like absent-minded peasants:

One week after they make a change in the banking rules Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs project profits in the billions of dollars.

Somewhere, in the back of my mind, my bullshit alarm is ringing./blockquote>

Hopefully it is ringing with Fergies “My Humps” — because if there is a song for this economic depression induced by corporate greed and exploitation, its that.

Apparently TEH ISLAMS can also find God in all sorts of everyday objects, including an egg:

Other things worth a peek: Female OOOO faces, no date is complete without a trip to Carls Jr, and it’s a PANDA PARTY!!!!

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Andrew Sullivan:

I know Obama isn’t going to fix the economy overnight, I know he won’t be able to provide healthcare to all Americans by February ’09. I know Obama isn’t a Messiah who four years from now will have turned this country into a fabled utopia. But I also know Obama will make moral decisions. I know Obama will try to unite where others try to divide. I know Obama will help to make America the beacon of hope it once was to others. I know that at 27 years of age, I witnessed one of the most important and hopefully glorious chapters in American history.

Rob Dreher:

1. The modern conservative movement began with the crushing defeat of Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race. The modern conservative movement ends with the crushing defeat of Arizona Sen. John McCain — who took Goldwater’s Senate seat upon his retirement — in the 2008 presidential race.

2. Modern liberalism began its implosion with riots in Chicago’s Grant Park at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Tonight, modern liberalism is reborn at Chicago’s Grant Park, where a black Chicago Democrat will celebrate winning the presidency.

John Cole:

I am still in shock. This was a damned landslide. It seems so long ago that I was the skeptical one, mocking Obama as the Magical Unity Pony- I think people forget that I was one of the folks who was simply going to support Hillary as the alternative to the GOP disaster.

This is just stunning. This changes everything. He treated us like adults, he converted the skeptics, and now he has a chance to make his mark. I was an Obama skeptic, and mocked him as the Magical Unity Pony, and mocked him “transcending” things. People forget that, I guess.

But now, no more fake nicknames- this is President-Elect Barack Obama. And I am so very, very proud.

Megan McArdle:

This is a strange election in another way–it’s not really close, but people are watching it as if it is. In 1996, my office had to use a point spread, and post a hefty premium, to get people interested in betting on the Clinton-Dole matchup. We’ve all known for a while that Obama was going to win, wistful dreams notwithstanding. But everyone’s watching as if this were the seventh game of a tied world series.

Me, I was hoping that Obama would win, but without much boost in Senate support or a large vote mandate; I like me some hamstrung politicians. Wan hope, now dashed. I’ll just have to take solace in Being There While History Is Made.

Marc Ambinder:

President Bush and Republicans were sent to the doghouse. This was a huge opportunity year for Democrats, and Obama took advantage of it in every possible way — great campaign, virtually no mistakes (dealing with the controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the “bitter/cling” remarks are the only two I can think of.), they built a huge organization (the DNC and Howard Dean deserve some credit here too) and an unbelievable $630 million+ financial machine. Two times as many voters said they were personally contacted by the Obama campaign as by the McCain campaign.

Obsidian Wings:

Tonight’s win is hard to put into words. The historical significance speaks for itself. But for all its rich history, tonight is also about far more than Barack Obama.

Any way you slice it, the 2008 election should be seen as a massive repudiation of the George W. Bush administration. Karl Rove’s project failed miserably. Bush is instead bequeathing large Democratic majorities to the next president. And that’s no accident. It’s the inevitable byproduct of a political strategy based on polarization. That strategy may win in the short term (indeed, it did) – but it’s a long-term loser. That’s because this type of strategy inevitably rallies forces against it. It’s just a matter of physics – every action brings an equal and opposite reaction. In this sense, the 2008 election is simply the ripple effects of the 2002 election.

For this reason – and somewhat ironically – George W. Bush is arguably the father of the modern progressive revival. Tonight’s victories — and the infrastructure that made them possible — would simply be unthinkable in the absence of Bush. That’s not to say, of course, that the nation is better because Bush was president. It’s not. But the birth of the new progressive infrastructure is the silver lining of that long eight-year cloud.

Feministe:

I love living in New York, but this is maybe the night I’ve loved it most. Everyone is in the streets cheering. People are yelling “Yes We Can!” to strangers. I watched two girls hug on a street corner, and a smiled as a car full of cheering boys drove past me. Taxis are honking. Before the election was called for Obama, I was in my office in midtown working late, and every hour and a half or so, all the way up on the 30th floor, I would hear a huge swelling cheer from the street — and a quick click over to NBC would show that Obama had just won one state or another. I haven’t seen people this excited any other time in my life; I also haven’t ever heard a speech like the one Obama gave tonight. New Yorkers waited in two, three, and four-hour-long lines today to cast ballots overwhelmingly for a candidate we all knew was going to win our state. That’s an incredible show not only of patriotism and of support for this one man, but, to use a popular word this year, of hope.

Feministing:

Obama wins! OMFG! I don’t know that I ever thought I’d write these words, but here it is: The US has elected its first African-American President. And I’m an emotional mess. Like many of you, I’m celebrating with family. I’m sure I’ll have more to say tomorrow, but for now, I’m going to go do a happy dance and cry some more with my nearest and dearest.

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