While Mitt Romney and Rick Perry fought like two guys waiting to test-drive the same Audi at last night's GOP debate, Herman Cain and Ron Paul got into it a bit over Occupy Wall Street. Cain proudly stood behind his earlier statements that jobless people only have themselves to blame, and was rewarded with a cascade of howls and cheer from the GOP audience. To his credit, Paul called him out on it: "I think Mr. Cain has blamed the victims. There are a lot of people who are victims of this business cycle." Watch below.
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Video: GOP Audience Howls As Herman Cain, Ron Paul Trade Barbs Over Occupy Wall Street
City Pays $80K/month To Keep Bikers From Killing Bridge Pedestrians
So you've been given the job of being a "pedestrian safety manager" on one of the city's Brooklyn/Manhattan bridges. From now until November 26 you have the fun duty of trying to bring peace between the bikers and walkers going over the spans between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays (noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays). What do you think your hourly salary is?
City Gets Into The Bikes Vs. Pedestrians Bridge Battle
If there is one point bicyclists and pedestrians can agree on in the ongoing war for the streets of New York that aren't owned by cars, it is that the Brooklyn/Manhattan bridges are the worst. The tabloids have run exposes on the problem, the city keeps switching things up, we recommend avoiding the Brooklyn Bridge on bikes entirely, and our commenters keep commenting about the problems they encounter. So now the city is putting real money into trying to solve the problem—at least temporarily—by hiring four full-time glorified crossing guards. Better than nothing!
Internet Commenters Exposed, Hauled into Court
Readers who commented on an online newspaper article about a car crash are being called to testify in a vehicular homicide case in Montana. The defendant is Justine Winter, a 17-year-old girl accused of trying to commit suicide by veering into oncoming traffic. (She lived; two people in the other car died.) Her attorney is trying to change the trial's venue, and has subpoenaed seven individuals who commented on the website for the local paper, the Daily Inter Lake.
12th Man Makes Light of 9/11
A fan on the popular Seattle Seahawks message board "Seahawks Huddle" has created a stir in his attempts to goad NY Giants fans before the two teams' matchup next week by posting a collection of 9/11 jokes. The post has naturally been taken down, but not before it raised the ire of many, including today's Daily News where they call the author "a lunatic" and share a link to his email address. The jokes were posted above an image of a smoking NYC skyline following the fall of the towers and included one-liners such as "Q: What's Al Qaida's (sic) favorite football team? A: The New York Jets" and "Q: How many New Yorkers does it take to change a light bulb? A: Nobody knows since they keep jumping out the window when it gets too hot!"
NY Times Goes Under the Virtual Bridge and Talks to Trolls
Today's NY Times Magazine has a long, intense piece on internet trolls, anonymous users of the internet where "nobody can see anybody, and everybody can claim to speak from the center." The piece follows "Fortuny," a troll who became famous for "The Craigslist Experiment" where he posted on his blog the pictures and identities of a hundred men who responded to his fake ad as woman seeking a “str8 brutal dom muscular male.” At one point he tears up while confessing that his trolling might be because he's trying to save grandfather and three other relatives who molested him at age 5. The other main subject of the article is "weev," who sees trolling as internet eugenics saying, "Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed...We need to put these people in the oven!”
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