The Great 8-Bit Gatsby
What happens when you combine Super Mario Bros. and the Great American Novel? “The Great Gatsby for NES.” The Wall Street Journal’s Ben Cohen reports.
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Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the month “May, 2013”
IRS’ Tea Party Witch-hunt
The Internal Revenue Service admitted yesterday that the agency singled out approximately 75 conservative and Tea Party groups for special scrutiny and auditing in advance of the 2012 election. While the agency apologized for overstepping its legal bounds, there was no word forthcoming on who ordered the witch-hunt and whether those responsible will be fired or reprimanded.
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New Coke
When Coca-Cola changed its recipe and rebranded itself as New Coke, the world recoiled in horror. What does New Coke have to do with conservative politics? Who is the classic conservative and who is the new conservative? Does the marketing plan of Pepsi resemble progressivism? Find out what Bill Whittle thinks. H/T PJTV
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A Spear-it-ed Survivor
A Brazilian woman, Elisangela Borborema Rosa, was accidentally shot in the mouth by a speargun, while her husband was cleaning the device. Miraculously, she survived the accident.
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Hillary Pilloried
The Ghost of Benghazi Past will haunt Hillary Clinton for some time to come, Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera agreed on Friday. O’Reilly particularly reflected on White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s briefing, during which he was grilled on the recent news about Benghazi, noting that Carney basically threw Clinton under the bus.
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Benghazi Scandal
Andrew Klavan and Stephen Crowder have a spontaneous breakfast discussion about Benghazi, the scandal that the Obama administration and its compliant media supporters conspired to bury in the sands of the Sahara.
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Wave of Care
A ewe goes the extra length to look be-ewe-tiful in this animated short from Alexandra Hetmerova. She created the piece in 2007 while she was a student at FAMU, the famous Czech film school in Prague.
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What Would Nicolas Cage Do?
Dutch comedian Ronald Goedemondt does a spot-on impersonation of Nicolas Cage in the midst of a demon.
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Student Schools His Teacher
What’s the best approach to educate kids? Does one style fit all, or should teachers adopt different techniques to reach different children? One student’s call for educational reform has gone viral, prompting a lively SourceFed debate.
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Technology: The Tsunami Ahead
Advances in technology are accelerating so rapidly that few of us can keep up, and certainly not colloquial governments or legal systems or educational institutions grounded on premises honed a century or so ago. “All of the structures that we use to run the world today— our civics, our politics, our legal systems, healthcare, education— are all structured for a world 100 or 200 years ago, not for the world of today. So we think we’re in for a lot of disruption,” says Salim Ismail, founding director of Singularity University.
He talks with Reason.TV’s Tracy Oppenheimer about the pitfalls lying ahead, while also discussing such new promises and innovations as crowd funding, the next steps in technological expansion and how we’ve entered an information-based age.
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