Twitter Round Up

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Here’s the stories I tweeted this week (follow me @Porchy)

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  • Colts raise ticket prices (IBJ)
  • Hostettler polls well against Ellsworth (CQ Politics)
  • Informative Chatroulette Pie chart (also see below) (My heart’s in accra)
  • Things to know about political polling (and reporting thereof) (CQ Politics)
  • Talk of Mitch Daniels 2012 increases (NYTimes-Pro; Post-Pro; New Yorker-Con)
  • Ellsworth more conservative than Bayh (TPM)
  • Bunning was enthusiastically Pro deficit spending before he was enthusiastically against it (Yglesias)
  • Bunning’s strategy seems to have been  Step 1: Be anti worker, Step 2: Give up his integrity for nothing (NPR)
  • Paul Broun (R-GA) compares Obama to Snooki (MSNBC)
  • Tom Friedman takes pro-billionair advice from billionaire (Yglesias)
  • Texas really knows how to pick’em (Ezra Klein)
  • Liar says he’s psychic, SEC just calls him criminal (NPR)
  • It’s unclear if teen unemployment was aggravated by minimum wage increases. (Nyhan)

Twitter Roundup

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It was a pretty light week what with a friend in town and me battling some horrible sickness, but here are the stories I Tweeted this week in case you missed them or aren’t following me yet (@Porchy)

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  • Obama insidiously plots his 2012 takeover of the White House. (PoliBlog)
  • Wackiness with rum excise taxes! (Liquidity Preference)
  • Rep Anthony Weiner is hilarious. (TPM)
  • Diagnoses for less that $1, and it’s pretty too. (Popular Science)
  • Senator Bunning hijacks Senate (Daily Beast)
  • Robots are coming for your jobs! My jobs (Alterdestiny)
  • Reconciliation? Not new. Live with it. (TPM)
  • Marc Thiessen is a bad Catholic (cuz he likes the torture) (NY Times)
  • High IQ linked to atheism, liberalism, monogamy (CNN) Thanks to both GB and Shae for sharing different versions of this story.

Just some basic self-promotion: Follow Me!

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Just a reminder that some things are happening (have happened) here on the Porch.

First of all,  Beer Friday is gone on to a new home. You can fine Beer Reviews and local (i.e., Indiana(polis)) beer news at BrewIndy. I have a great logo idea but lack the technical expertise for this site but have recruited a long time friend to solve that problem.  (You can also follow @BrewIndy on teh twitterz. I don’t tweet those though. Those come from my co-blogger, partner and pal J Cochran. My next blog there will either be an attack on a local neo-Prohibitionist group or a review of Bell’s 9000. For the first I have to get through a statistical analysis of the effects of allowing Sunday sales of package liquor in New Mexico and for the second I need to get through this sickness that makes all things taste like phantom versions of themselves.

You can find Beer, Whiskey, Wine and other Spirits commentary at Central State Asylum (mostly beer though). Still rocking the basic WordPress blog theme over there but that’ll change soon. I also tweet news and interesting liquor-related items as I find them on the internet and you can follow me there (@CSAsylum)

You can find reviews of books, history, and notes about Prohibition and the so-called War on Drugs on OverModeration. That site is infrequently updated at best but should ramp up as time goes on.  That site still has the basic WordPress theme too and that may never change. Next up for that site is a review of 99 Drams of Whiskey by Kate Hopkins, but first I have to stop wrestling with Ubuntu and finish the book.

Gah! Ubuntu!

I’m sorry for the Twitter/Blog/Facebook thing.

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In regard to this.

I know I blog, tweet, and facebook a lot. And if you happen to be on LinkedIn or SmallerIndiana, you might be seeing some more of my stuff there as well. I know you must feel like I’m smothering you. And I am. And I’m sorry.

To be fair to me, when I started this linked account business a few weeks ago, I did give you warning. I asked that you unsubscribe from the accounts that meant less to you and follow the one that makes the most sense for you.

And, for what it’s worth, I do try to keep the content that goes to each account specific to that account, with the exception of facebook. Almost all of it goes on facebook. And, again, I beg your consideration here: On facebook I do not post the results of quizzes, scores on games, and, for that matter, I frequently delete small activity like who I just friended and who’s status update I Liked or Commented on.

So, really, I don’t mind and I don’t take it personally. Unfollow me if it’s overwhelming. I’ve made some adjustments in my life so that if you don’t want to follow me but want to know what I’m doing or thinking, you can still find out.

For example, once a week I post here the stories I linked to through this blog’s Twitter account. I do the same at Central State Asylum. So don’t follow those Tweets unless you want to know it as soon as I know it. Just follow the blogs and once a week you will still get the Tweet diary. Some of those Tweets you will have already read from the account you didn’t unfollow–don’t click those links!

If you are reading all four of my blogs, there’s a good chance I know you personally and you can just follow me on facebook, just don’t forget to check out my status updates. By the way, I even delete all facebook activity after 6 weeks. Seriously check it out, no entries prior to January 4, so I even travel back and time to clean up the mess I made on your feeds.

And you know what? Quite frankly I doubt your life will be that much worse if you didn’t read every single thing that escaped my brain and wound up in the etherspace. I’m not offended. If I ask you “Did you read that thing I linked to?” Just say no and I’ll tell you about it. I promise, I won’t ask why? You will never have to tell me you’ve been ignoring my posts, tweets and updates for the last 6 months.

Deal?

I Blog and I Tweet too!

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Here are the stories I (re-)tweeted this week. Did you know you can follow me on teh twitterz? @Porchy.

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