Monday Linky Randomness

A Breeding Ground for Thoughtlessness and Contempt. Twitter is poison to American political discourse. In fact, if you set out to design a platform that would poison America’s discourse and its politics, you’d be hard pressed to come up with something more destructive than Twitter. Twitter has the flaws of the old Usenet newsgroups, but on a much bigger scale.

Worse yet, the heaviest users of Twitter are journalists and political operatives. They tend to have lots of short episodes of downtime and fill them with Twitter. There’s a big psychic reward to issuing a bon mot — usually a put-down — and being cheered for it by your friends and political allies. But the end result is a lot of off-the-cuff meanness. Few tweeters even follow the links they retweet to read beyond the headline. And spending hours a day in this environment can’t help but affect their other work.

Some say the sharp partisanship we see on Twitter from allegedly objective journalists is a useful revelation: Finally, we’re seeing their true selves. There’s much truth to that.

• “Let’s be honest. It’s going to be ugly.” - "When you break things, it is painful. And you get cut. And you bleed." 
• Nutmeg Goes Off on Joy - Yeah, Kid Rock Was Right.
• If you like to kill two birds with one stone, hold your horses because you may just open up a can of worms. 
• WTF - The Sounds of Baghdad Brooklyn? 
• Worship Thy Va-Jay-Jay. - Let make a Golden Vagina Sculpture!
• Squinty and Meat Puppet's Triumph Return From Honeymoon.

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