Alarmingly plausible

Obama Urged to Resign Over Beyoncé Scandal

Insufficient bullying

Bioethicist says we're not shaming people enough for being Jewish gay fat.

Thanx to Shakesville

The Facebook Racket

Social media that have no business model except trying to monetize the information that users provide to them will, sooner or later, be required to breach trust and demolish whatever is useful in their service, to come back again and again with new interfaces and terms of service that lie or conceal or divert. Even if they get away with it for a time, they’re selling a product that is far less valuable than the innumerable info-hucksters and digital prophets (or even protectors of privacy) think it is. In some ways, it might be best if Facebook just got it over with and gave itself permission to sell every last scrap of information it’s holding: what we might all discover is that there’s hardly anyone at all who will pay for that service at the scale and price that Facebook needs them to pay.

--Timothy Burke

The Human Condition

We aren't safe and we don't know.

Thanx to Carrying It with Me (excellent new blog by an old friend) and RAW Illumination.

Outdoing itself

Another reason not to use the New York Post for personal hygiene unless you have a grudge against your ass.