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In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan talk about:

Ivan in Nebraska / Wrong Gift
Nigerian Kidnapping
Net Neutrality
Election 2014
Monica Lewinsky

Recorded on 9 May 2014

Length this week – 1:22:02


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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-08 (UTC)

Reading – Why Republicans Have a 55 Percent Chance of Retaking the Senate (Katz/Cox) http://t.co/ouQkoDiS7N 00:13:41
Reading – Huge coalition led by Amazon, Microsoft and others take a stand against FCC on net neutrality (T.C. Sottek) http://t.co/9mMKTxolEj 00:18:55
Reading – Obama Administration Proves Why the Public Needs Someone to Leak the CIA Torture Report (Trevor Timm) https://t.co/88dRJD2cCE 00:24:44
Reading – Iran Just Changed Its Mind on Banning WhatsApp (@JM_Beck) https://t.co/2uek7jhwPp 00:34:12
Reading – Does Light Experience Time? (Fraser Cain) http://t.co/V1fn2aYS5t 00:38:48
OK. Watching the video now too. :-) RT @fcain: @abulsme You should watch the video instead. :-) https://t.co/RqXOhJC1yy 01:55:48
Reading – The Way the NSA Uses Section 702 is Deeply Troubling. Here’s Why. (Nadia Kayyali) https://t.co/YUBMuvTiez 02:14:16
Reading – House Committee Votes Unanimously to Rein In the NSA (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/dYEfqksL1I 03:50:07
Reading – Midterm Election Turnout Isn’t So Different From Presidential Year Turnout (Harry Enten) http://t.co/PAeQFiX13d 13:08:52
Reading – Insurance Execs Shut Down GOP's Latest Search For Bad Obamacare News (Dylan Scott) http://t.co/sZYF9DiaEl 13:56:58
Reading – Pope Francis is throwing nuns under the bus for sharing his own beliefs (Sadhbh Walshe) http://t.co/L1b0B9CugM 14:05:30
Reading – Why Rand Paul Won the North Carolina Primary, by Losing (@daveweigel) http://t.co/XbYutmxiFr 14:19:02
Reading – U.S. Internet providers allow 'permanent congestion' and want cash to clear it up (@onejarednewman) http://t.co/UjgLONf3ni 14:22:44
Reading – The Number Of Old Americans Is Going To Explode (Andy Kiersz) http://t.co/4B1AIeg79d 14:26:56
Reading – Why Apple’s claim that it can’t intercept iMessages is largely semantics (Ashkan Soltani) http://t.co/x0Mb4QK4Gx 14:34:28
Reading – What is Alibaba and why is it about to become the biggest IPO in years? (@mattyglesias) http://t.co/SBPazr6iYo 14:56:22
Reading – Loyal Dog Protects Missing Boy By Refusing To Leave His Side (Sara Gates) http://t.co/HZ0ntUkwpG 14:59:45
Reading – The five stages of GOP scandal-mongering: A reader’s guide (Paul Waldman) http://t.co/V0MRO5tvpW 16:18:46
Reading – The Big Reason Republicans Should Hope Jeb Bush Runs (Nate Cohn) http://t.co/dz7Hxu18kL 16:22:30
Work me speaks again: http://t.co/M3DcMSbw4C 17:05:44
Reading – This is what America would look like without gerrymandering (@awprokop ) http://t.co/Tjfy1pawGE 18:59:59
Reading – What The World Was Like The Year The Lewinsky Scandal Broke (Dorsey Shaw) http://t.co/50RYD40Xen 19:06:16
Reading – The net neutrality backlash is heating up вЂ” here's what you need to know (Timothy B. Lee) http://t.co/v7JdeDdIFT 20:37:13
Reading – So Out of Bounds (@joshtpm) http://t.co/Qo9hJllABl 21:36:58
Reading – Titles (John Gruber) http://t.co/hourZzdbas 21:39:24
Reading – Uber and Google are just getting started (Sarah Silbert) http://t.co/WrFCbqhHeX 23:38:52
Reading – Republicans Drink Their Own Kool-Aid, End Up Looking Like Idiots (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/wpNgKuamm1 23:39:34
Reading – Apple in Talks to Buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 Billion (Seth Fiegerman) http://t.co/2prUsHFgoU 23:49:08

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-07 (UTC)

Reading – A BuzzFeed Parody Made Real: Was Monica Lewinsky Really That Bad For Bill Clinton? (Harry Enten) http://t.co/D7Kw5aZ2AP 02:10:48
This -> Letting Go Of Global Hegemony, Ctd (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/1JzpzHnK7g 04:46:23
Reading – My favorite app was bought by Facebook. So I deleted it. (Caitlin Dewey) http://t.co/2qNND8HJtZ 04:55:45
Reading (from January) – 'Jellyfish' flying machine keeps upright (Anna Salleh) http://t.co/T7ZoodxbTP 12:55:09
Reading – This Lawyer Enabled the Extrajudicial Killing of an American (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/DveXoexQRg 13:10:50
Reading – The GOP establishment won big last night вЂ” and so did incumbents (Taegan Goddard) http://t.co/lDOcW50iRc 13:54:42
Reading – Why I say that iOS vs. Android no longer matters (@lukewestaway) http://t.co/EbPO0fhW7W 14:00:05
Reading – Israeli Pres. Peres: Netanyahu blocked 2011 Peace Deal with Palestinians (AFP) http://t.co/kyKm13lya6 14:19:51
Reading – There’s no GOP establishment/Tea Party divide, and there never has been (Paul Waldman) http://t.co/3DWhVYFibY 19:17:03
Reading – Monica Lewinsky does Hillary Clinton a big favor (Ruth Marcus) http://t.co/wJWcTqCJlA 19:21:18

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-06 (UTC)

Reading – Tradition! Today’s legislative prayer decision in Plain English (Amy Howe) http://t.co/3IVVuUYUKc 03:28:41
Reading – Replacing the PC (Marco Arment) http://t.co/lWdBXfdOWZ 03:36:47
Reading and watching – How To Interview A Politician (Sullivan/Robinson) http://t.co/JYoPJwulgq 16:26:49

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-05 (UTC)

Reading – What was fake on the Internet this week (Caitlin Dewey) http://t.co/X2e2HiVAwv 04:18:27
Workn’ on setting up ’16! RT @jennsteele: @abulsme Watching Nate Silver talk about the 2012 election polls and thinking of your analysis. :) 05:23:31
Reading – Why Run for President If You Can't Win? (Richard Skinner) http://t.co/iKCadK7Hay 07:35:02
Reading [from November] – The Star Trek Economy: (Mostly) Post-Scarcity (Mostly) Socialism [Matthew Yglesias] http://t.co/myFKwrjOA6 14:45:46
Reading – How Harvard scholars may have been duped by a forged вЂGospel of Jesus’s Wife’ (Terrence McCoy) http://t.co/oUFALSECIM 15:02:50
RT @brendanloy: Happy Cinco De Maiar! (cc: @tolkienprof, @theoneringnet) http://t.co/IZyffzub2w 17:24:17
Watched -> MT @cspan: Complete #WHCD2014 Remarks: Pres Obama http://t.co/W9jxXwHsiw
@joelmchale http://t.co/KO0Y3oMijq 18:53:53
Just completed a 2.87 km walk – Lunch walk. http://t.co/lfDLeJMUSg #RunKeeper 20:16:23
Reading – Hillary Who? The GOP Can't Wait To Take Millennials Back To The 1990s (Dylan Scott) http://t.co/nGpjPCau1i 22:35:49

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-04 (UTC)

Reading – The psychology behind Republicans' Benghazi obsession (@zackbeauchamp) http://t.co/nyA9BIYPiY 01:14:22
MT @NASA: A galaxy far, far away… 35 million light-years away http://t.co/5Xr8hxwblg #MayThe4thBeWithYou http://t.co/AAokE2NGJj 19:39:46
Reading – This is the speech Obama would give on Russia if he were brutally honest (@Max_Fisher) http://t.co/LmAh2qDl0E 19:44:12

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-03 (UTC)

Got a rope burn on my right index finger from Roscoe’s leash while he was вЂњmeetingвЂќ another neighborhood dog. Ouch! <Cry> 00:36:17
Reading – How Russia Conquered Eastern Ukraine Without Firing a Shot (James Miller) https://t.co/FlmJLzSNyg 00:45:48
Reading – How's the Seattle Minimum Wage Deal Looking to the Rest of the Nation? (Anna Minard) http://t.co/6KRoXLpbUI 07:27:18
Reading – Testosterone Ad Absurdum (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/o9sVi1m9LW 07:44:58
Reading – Can Someone Explain How V for Vendetta Became a Major Symbol of Protest? (Paul Constant) http://t.co/yC0j8F8hfy 07:49:39
Reading – Object вЂњG2вЂі Still Intact at Closest Approach to Galactic Center, Astronomers Report (Nancy Atkinson) http://t.co/OzH8nkHqYx 07:52:21
Reading – Yes, the "Innocence of Muslims" Video Really Did Play a Role in the Benghazi Attacks (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/RC7VOt29in 08:02:48
Reading – Congress is clueless on technology вЂ” and just voted to keep it that way (Timothy B. Lee) http://t.co/q4o63WmLb3 08:09:54
Reading – 'Nerd Prom': D.C. Permanent Political Class Repelling A-List Stars with Boorish Antics (Tony Lee) http://t.co/uESFRtjsd8 14:26:13
Reading (from January) – Every data point is sacred (Matt Haughey) http://t.co/yQEfErSPEs 14:30:51
It is not fun! RT @robanhk: @abulsme I had the same thing happen a few days ago. Actually lost skin and bled. 14:31:34
Reading – Steve Jobs Defied Convention, and Perhaps the Law (James B. Stewart) http://t.co/Vglj8ZAngY 14:42:55
Reading – Beyond net neutrality (Timothy B. Lee) http://t.co/9rEO41XPlX 16:13:15
Reading – No barrier for Jeb вЂ” or any Republican вЂ” to run in 2016 (Jennifer Rubin) http://t.co/8luhIJHNhT 16:40:58
MT @Green_Footballs: Every single right wing blog on the web is screaming BENGHAZI!! today. All of them, like a huge flock of angry parrots. 17:48:41
Reading – Changed Life of the Poor: Better Off, but Far Behind (Annie Lowrey) http://t.co/qs8j1CNCw6 19:30:24
Reading – The Koch Attack on Solar Energy (NYT Editors) http://t.co/wa23JQzlhx 19:41:21
Reading – Ground Truth About Benghazi (@20committee) http://t.co/qfjHjPr2g9 19:49:54
Haircut time again for me and Alex. 21:24:21
Reading – Google AdSense Leak (anonymous Pastebin user) http://t.co/qQqvMx6T12 22:44:35

@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-02 (UTC)

Reading – To Get Help From A Little Kid, Ask The Right Way (Maanvi Singh) http://t.co/GKeC3GY1tu 00:52:56
UhвЂ¦ RT @SeattlePD: Officers moving in to break up a moving fight between superheroes and anarchists. #SeaMayDay 02:51:41
MT @carlbildt: Ukrainian helicopters shot down. Some elderly ladies bought some RPG’s or missiles at the local grocery store, I assume. 14:54:06
Reading – The Upshot, Vox and FiveThirtyEight: data journalism’s golden age, or TMI? (@jamesrbuk)
http://t.co/bY7W4YXJQu 15:02:47
Reading – Matt Smith joins new Terminator trilogy (Simon Brew) http://t.co/Vzq1xCoNUW 15:18:40
Antihypersyllabicsesquipedalian! RT @goodreads: Sesquipedalian! Perfidiousness! Callipygian! What's your favorite big word? 16:11:09
Reading – How (and why) Benghazi is back [Wesley Lowery] http://t.co/eyI2gfsV2P 18:47:32
MT @bobcesca_go: So these emails show the White House prepared pro-WH talking points for Sunday shows? And this is shocking how? #Benghazi 18:56:15
Reading – Taped Kerry’s вЂApartheid’ Talk (Josh Rogin) http://t.co/bvGFABajh8 20:13:46
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: This is the time to stand up! http://t.co/T7YfgsEu9A 21:00:42
Watching – Tiny Hamsters Eating Tiny Burritos – Episode 1 (HelloDenizen) https://t.co/2AM5MxyVDG 21:07:26
Spoiler: No -> Reading – Is Mount St. Helens about to explode? (@beckyoskin) http://t.co/uvV2nd4oTh 21:47:28
Finished the UK version recently. It was excellent. -> Tennant breaks silence on Fox's 'Broadchurch' remake (Hibberd) http://t.co/tBMUA0Ayp4 22:53:15

Curmudgeon’s Corner: This is the time to stand up!

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam talks about:

Kerry and Israel
Ukraine
Benghazi
Death Penalty

Recorded on 2 May 2014

Length this week – 1:18:35


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@abulsme tweets from 2014-05-01 (UTC)

MT @ScottSKOMO: 82В° is your preliminary high in #Seattle today, matched by Tacoma. Forks/Hoquiam: 84. Kelso: 90! Just 75 in Everett 00:10:49
Reading – вЂњDropbox for Physical StorageвЂќ (Rob Beschizza) http://t.co/zvBf7cXb1j 17:18:00
.@imbou was stuck without good connection last night & is unavailable tonight. Anybody out there want to cohost Curmudgeon’s Corner tonight? 17:35:14
What was he trying to get? RT @juanapu16: It happened in 2 minutes… of course, he felt but super mommy catch him:) http://t.co/ZMhDfVnhIE 22:48:22
Reading – On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B (Steven Kerr) http://t.co/Z9e1HOrqIC 22:59:07

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