Conservative Censorship On Digg

Oleoleolson at AlterNet blew the lid off of a huge story about a ring of conservative Diggers that were burying stories from liberal sites and targeting specific users to be banned from Digg:

A group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, upvote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives. An undercover investigation has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year…
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And That’s Why You Always Lock Your Window At Night…

“Michael’s biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli recounted that Joe Jackson had once put on a fright mask and crawled into Michael’s bedroom through a window at night, screaming; Joe Jackson said his purpose was to teach his son to keep the window closed when he slept. For years afterward Michael suffered nightmares about being kidnapped from his room, and said that whenever he saw his father he felt nauseated.”

— The “Thriller” Diaries by Nancy Griffin in Vanity Fair

The Best Sex And The City 2 Review

Wanna read the best review of the movie 2 whores, their mom, and their horse? Then check out Lindy West’s review of SATC2, featuring such glorious bits as:

SATC2 takes everything that I hold dear as a woman and as a human—working hard, contributing to society, not being an entitled cunt like it’s my job—and rapes it to death with a stiletto that costs more than my car. It is 146 minutes long, which means that I entered the theater in the bloom of youth and emerged with a family of field mice living in my long, white mustache. This is an entirely inappropriate length for what is essentially a home video of gay men playing with giant Barbie dolls…

At sexism’s funeral (which takes place in a mysterious, incense-shrouded chamber of international sisterhood), the women of Abu Dhabi remove their black robes and veils to reveal—this is not a joke—the same hideous, disposable, criminally expensive shreds of cloth and feathers that hang from Carrie et al.’s emaciated goblin shoulders. Muslim women: Under those craaaaaaay-zy robes, they’re just as vapid and obsessed with physical beauty and meaningless material concerns as us! Feminism! Fuck yeah!

With the pièce de résistance at the conclusion: “If this is what modern womanhood means, then just fucking veil me and sew up all my holes. Good night.” Sigh, god bless you Lindy West.

Fake Science: Greatest Web Site Of All Time

It is not hyperbole when I say Fake Science is the greatest website of all time. First off, look at this:

Do you see how funny that is? That is art. It is a site of nothing but pure, emancipated uber-truthiness, spewing its hobgoblins of thought and mystery into your unsuspecting eyes. Go to that site, and go there often, or I will personally track down your IP address and sell your dog to a Chinese restaurant.

The Inane Observations Of Tyler Cowen

It’s time for PBH to get back to what it does best: Hating on mother fuckers. Target 1 is Tyler Cowen, the vapid “Marginal Revolution” blogger who’s primary objective in life is to compete with Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman for the coveted ‘enamored with insipid and insignificant observations’ demographic. Witness his post on why Haiti is so poor:

1. Haiti cut its colonial ties too early, rebelling against the French in the early 19th century and achieving complete independence. Guadaloupe and Martinique are still riding the gravy train and French aid is a huge chunk of their GDP.

2. Haiti was a French colony in the first place and French colonies do less well.

5. Hegel was correct that the “voodoo religion,” with its intransitive power relations among the gods, was prone to producing political intransitivity as well. (Isn’t that a startling insight for a guy who didn’t travel the broader world much?)

6. For reasons peculiar to the history of the slave trade, Haitian slaves came from many different parts of Africa and thus Haitian internal culture has long had lower levels of cohesion and cooperation.

7. Haiti has higher than average levels of polygamy

Now, this wouldn’t be a big deal, except for the fact Cowen is an Economics professor. Yes, someone who teaches Economics for a living listed “polygamy” and “voodoo religion” as a reason for Haiti’s underdevelopment. And who says Economics is a respected intellectual field?