Facebook has repeatedly manipulated, stolen, offended and lied. They have embedded with criminals, spies and human rights cannibals. They apologize over and again, promise a sea change and yet willfully choose to neither effectuate that change nor deactivate universally malignant behavior.
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My wife is in Cedars Sinai Hospital having her right breast removed right now. And I’m around the block ordering scrambled eggs and a side salad. Eight centimeters of cancer changes everything. And nothing.
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Media insiders say it’s time to call the coroner and throw a big, fat R.I.P. sticker on primetime programming as we know it. The W.O.W. Network — acronym for We Own Washington — will be crowned the very first all-the-time, all-the-networks, all-the-politics-you-can-buy-and-swallow juggernaut to blaze into broadcast history.
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It was midnight where I live in L.A. when my mother called — 3 a.m. in the pint-sized village of Dublin, Pennsylvania where she lives. As I saw her number on the caller ID, I said to myself, “This can’t be good.” I answered, “Mom, you OK?” Nothing but convulsive sobs in the receiver. Then, “They had to take Dad away.”
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The blitz of sex “scandals” and abuses like those of Anthony Weiner, O’Reilly, Franken, Lauer, Cosby, oh, and our President, is that one particular subject is not being addressed in any of the gazillion reports we have heard since such tweets hit the fan: the social network effect.
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On my flight from Seattle to Los Angeles last night, it occurred to me that commercial airplanes are near-perfect archetypes of classism. In fact, airlines proudly trumpet such division… First Class in front, Economy Class in the rear.
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This brief history of Donald Trump comes courtesy of Donald Trump. The mass must end this madness, before this madness ends the mass. If you don't believe this, believe him.
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Amid all of our current income doom and gloom, for the very first time, the majority of Congress is now represented by charter members of the millionaires club. The folks for whom we punch ballots every two to four years, the ones we implore to give us, as Obama puts it, "a fair shake," are the ones that use our donations for a limo ride to the country club after a pit stop at the bank.
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My mother is still alive. And I love her. I also love my wife and daughter to the moon and back. But I don't love Mother's Day. In fact, I think it should end. Women don't deserve such a day of honor. They deserve much, much more.
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