Steven Rafferty (raff0826)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

graduate student; PhD candidate; cultural critic; rhetorical theorist

Member since Jun 09, 2008, follows 4 people, 1 public groups, 236 public bookmarks (241 total).

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Scott Brown on the Building Blocks of Prime Time | Magazine on 2010-09-13
Wall Street's Big Win | Rolling Stone Politics on 2010-08-23
Yahoo! Maps, Driving Directions, and Traffic on 2010-07-28
Quantum Computing Thrives on Chaos | Wired Science | Wired.com on 2010-03-11
From conservatives, a bounty of political manifestos - Yahoo! News on 2010-02-18
ZCommunications | "Chaos as an Everyday Thing" by Immanuel Wallerstein | ZSpace on 2010-02-17
John Mayer Breaks Down in Tears After Public Apology - Stop The Presses! on 2010-02-12
Obama rips Republicans for 'obstruction' - CNN.com on 2010-02-03
- Obama cited several examples of what he said was GOP legislative maneuvering motivated purely by political considerations. Among other things, he raised the recent example of seven GOP senators who backed a bill establishing a bipartisan deficit reduction commission, but then turned against it when the proposal came to a vote.
This Week in Crazy - Salon.com on 2010-01-31
Media Criticism - Salon.com on 2010-01-30
- news correspondents
- disaster pornographers
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- - this smut is all flesh and no substantive plot
  - there is little discussion of how western Hispaniola was a man-made disaster before an earthquake made it a natural one.
  - This is the real story of Haiti that the black T-shirts and safari button-downs (and, alas, their viewers) have never cared about. They've only noticed the country when a cataclysm provided more telegenic images than the daily death and despair of the island's pre-earthquake squalor.