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Mitch Wagner

Freelance journalist, Internet marketing consultant, podcaster @ CopperRobot.com, hiding from the sun in San Diego.
Mitch Wagner
Rahm Emanuel is solving Chicago’s problems and pissing people off doing it. If he is indeed making Chicago better then it doesn’t matter who he pisses off doing it. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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A Nobel-prize-winning doctor supports ebola quarantines. Headline on this story is misleading. The doctor says Christie doesn’t go far enough. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Ebola nurse defies quarantine, goes for a bike ride. Are there medical professionals saying the quarantine is appropriate? One of my most useful thumb rules: If Chris Christie or Andrew Cuomo think something is a good idea, it isn’t. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Tim Cook: “We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.” - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Caitlin Doughty: “What being a mortician taught me about dying.” Hell of a great essay about how to overcome America’s crazy and harmful attitude toward death. Everybody dies. Until the 20th Century, everybody knew that and responsible people prepared for it. By forcing medical treatment on the dying, we’ve turned dying into hell. People need to... - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Judaism & me When I was in my teens and 20s I went through a cliched period as a self-hating Jew and tried to act WASP. I wore a cowboy hat sometimes in college. I looked as ridiculous as that sounds. I’m a Jewish guy from Long Island — that’s never going to change. I was chubby then too. Chubby guys shouldn’t wear cowboy hats. In my 30s, I made a... - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Mad Men: “The Best Things in Life Are Free.” Behind the scenes for Bert’s song-and-dance finale. Robert Morse is still a hell of a song-and-dance man, particularly remarkable because he’s 83 years old. This was the one scene in Mad Men in which I connected Burt with the character Morse played in How to Succeed in Business. Casting Morse as Burt... - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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I now view my Twitter feed mainly as raw materials for Nuzzel. And by the way I wish Nuzzel would get support for Google+. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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The Stand - http://www.goodreads.com/review...
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Happy Hour in Hell (Bobby Dollar #2) - http://www.goodreads.com/review...
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The Dirty Streets of Heaven (Bobby Dollar, #1) - http://www.goodreads.com/review...
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I don’t always go to the supermarket, but when I do I have a go-to-market strategy. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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The Roosevelts: A dynasty that fizzled. Franklin Roosevelt’s sons never succeeded in politics, instead sinking into quagmires of sloth, scandals of influence-peddling, and political defeat. TR’s kids were no prizes either — with the singular exception of Ted Roosevelt, who had a checkered life as a young adult but rose to the rank of general and... - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Amazon law: if you order three things from Amazon, the least interesting item will ship first. Like a printer cartridge, for example. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Trailer for Season 3 of The Newsroom. Looks great. I’m looking forward to it. I see a scene at a shooting range. Does one of the main characters get a gun? Is that a storyline? The anchorman already has one; we’ve seen that.  The Newsroom returns in November. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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I’m totally getting one of these to wear to professional conferences. Great for carrying my phone, spare charger, notebooks, pens, protein bars, nuts. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Why write science fiction when the real world is a fantasy world? Science fiction and fantasy writer Charles Stross says he’s not interested in writing science fiction this decade. You know that thing Arthur C. Clarke said, “A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic?” We live in that world. Stross quotes fantasy writer... - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Edna flirts with Charlie Chaplin. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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If you want to scramble your password file, using +Xmarks, iCloud Safari sync, and Chrome sync at the same time is a good way to do that. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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I got to use the pile-of-poop emojii in a message yesterday. So that was a good day. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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I went to San Ysidro today, which reminded me why I hadn’t been there in years. What a grim and seedy area that is. I was there to get my Global Entry interview, for convenience when flying. I didn’t have a problem with mine but the poor guy standing in front of me had a couple of DUIs and seemed thrilled to be discussing them with a stranger in... - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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VMJoint appears to be a new virtualization community that has porn star Tori Black as spokeswoman. Because women feeling alienated in IT isn’t a problem. And men who might be uncomfortable about the porn connection? They don’t matter.  Idiots. - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Sony and Dish are having a tough time keeping pricing down for their Internet video services. By +Mari Silbey on +Light Reading  #LightReading - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Sckipio Turns Up the G.fast Volume | Light Reading - http://fplus.me/9ReK/51fbf9e6
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Cox Goes Gaga Over Gigabit | Light Reading - http://fplus.me/9QNC/51fbf9e6
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Markdown vs. CommonMark: A brief history of an open source controversy Markdown is a form of simplified HTML. I use it for nearly all my work writing. It was designed to be easier to read than standard HTML. But what I like about it is that it’s easier to type. For example, this is a link in regular HTML: <a... - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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"Secure golden key" The Washington Post suggests a “compromise” on police backdoors into private Internet communications: "A police ‘back door’ for all smartphones is undesirable — a back door can and will be exploited by bad guys, too. However, with all their wizardry, perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key they would... - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Everything you know about the black “culture of poverty” is wrong Most of what everybody knows about the black “culture of poverty” isn’t true. “Put more bluntly, they are lies,” say Jonah Birch & Paul Heideman. They’ve been debunked by many studies by social scientists. Among these lies: - That “black youth inhabit a culture that venerates... - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Why Israeli thieves buried hundreds of stolen luxury cars in the desert Israeli car thieves buried hundreds of stolen luxury cars in the Sinai Desert prior to Israel turning the desert over to Egypt more than 30 years ago. The thieves greased the cars heavily and wrapped them in plastic or tents to protect them. The plan was to dig up and unwrap... - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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Watchtower of Turkey on Vimeo Turkey: 3500 km in 20 days, boiled down to 3 wonderful minutes of video.  Thanks, +Xeni Jardin ! - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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+Carol Wilson on +Light Reading  #LightReading  - http://mitchwagner.tumblr.com/post...
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AT Apologizes for Insider Data Breach | Light Reading - http://fplus.me/9QA2/51fbf9e6
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