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visualinguist:

The Dispossessed: May 2nd, 2012

Illustration by Brian Stauffer

good:

A writer confronts her tabloid habit:

I had way too many opinions on celebrities and way too few on issues that directly affected me, like health care or jobs. It was time for a change. 

Five ways for balancing your media diet.

(via npr)

dallasobserver:

When eating crawfish, remember not to accidentally peel off your clothes.

(via City of Ate)

villagevoice:

In this week’s cover story, Pete Kotz takes a look at Mitt Romney’s years at Bain:

“They came in and said, ‘You’re all fired,’” employee Randy Johnson  told the Los Angeles Times. “‘If you want to work for us, here’s an application.’ We had insurance until the end of the week. That was it. It was brutal.”

But instead of reapplying, the workers went on strike. They also decided the good people of Massachusetts should know what kind of man wanted to be their senator. Suddenly, Indiana accents were showing up in Kennedy TV ads, offering tales of Romney’s villainy. He was sketched as a corporate Lucifer, one who wouldn’t blink at crushing little people if it meant prettying his portfolio.

Needless to say, this wasn’t a proper leading man’s role for a labor state like Massachusetts. Taking just 41 percent of the vote, Romney was pounded in the election. Meanwhile, the Marion plant closed just six months after Bain’s purchase. The jobs were shipped to Mexico.

Yet Romney didn’t learn his lesson. He seemed incapable of noticing that his brand of “creative destruction” left a lot of human wreckage in its wake. Or that voters might see him as more scumbag than saint.

FUCK YEAH, ELI SANDERS.

FUCK YEAH, THE STRANGER.

Winners.