Every so often I like to look at the trends in the technology our readers use to access the site. What kind of computers, what kinds of operating systems, mobile or desktop, etc. There’s a lot of interesting data in the latest numbers. But for anyone who’s been on the web back into the 90s, here’s the most striking piece of information. Fewer than 50% of the visits to TPM now come from computers running a windows operating system.
Cruz says conservatives should hold Republican officeholders “accountable” for shutting down his government shutdown.
Watching Heart perform Stairway to Heaven for the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin (Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones) and Barack and Michele Obama.
After the brouhaha that got kicked up over my comments about Flipboard last week, I had an initially somewhat awkward but eventually very pleasant conversation on Tuesday with Mike McCue, CEO of Flipboard, who wanted to discuss what he thought I missed in my post on Flipboard, Google Currents and other comparable products.
You may be in the running for dipsh#t of the year if you manage to break something that maybe a hundred million years worth of dinosaurs didn’t screw up.
The leader of Tea Party Unity has the game change to turn back the gay tide. A class action suit against homosexuality. Just all homosexuality. Like the AGs did with the tobacco companies.
Coming off the the shutdown/default debacle, House Tea Partiers say they’re pissed and plan to talk it out on immigrants by doubling down on killing immigration reform.
This quote from Harry Reid (D-NV) bears repeating …
“Ted Cruz is smart. He has always been able to talk down to people. He is now in the Senate. People are as smart as he is. He can’t talk down to anyone anymore. But he has still not accepted that in his own head. He still thinks he’s smarter than everybody else. He might be able to work a calculus problem better than I can. But he can’t legislate better than I can.”
Things got heated at TPM Cafe this week when Cathy Reisenwitz made the libertarian argument against criminalizing “revenge porn.”
That prompted feminist writer Amanda Marcotte to weigh in against skeezy guys who respond to rejection in such a nightmarish way. And it got the attention of Mitchell J. Matorin, an attorney who’s represented victims in these cases.