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Why Do Both Parties Want the Culture Wars? It's the Economy, Stupid
The meme of spring is that the culture wars are back. “There probably isn'ta single chattering-class show that hasn't made that observation in recent days,” NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez has rightly observed. “But what is frequently overlooked,” she ...
(Mar 16, 2012, Forbes)
McDonald's Internet meme for Shamrock Shakes risks going from #Shamrocking ...
McDonald's Internet meme for Shamrock Shakes risks going from #Shamrocking ...
(Mar 16, 2012, Toronto Star)
“Best arts blogger:” who need apply?
seems to be posing for the “What arts administrators think I do” section of a meme about bloggers. (CARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images) (CARL COURT - AFP/GETTY IMAGES) In the same spirit — putatively — it's launching a competition for The best arts blogger ...
(Mar 16, 2012, Washington Post (blog))
Flower power for summer
Make your own meme! Creating cool, rebellious and fun posters or a meme, is no longer a cumbersome task. Create your meme by following quick and simple steps at www.quickmeme.com. To create your meme, go to the website and click on the option — make a ...
(Mar 16, 2012, Hindustan Times)
McDonald's tries another meme: Shamrocking
(Crain's) — McDonald's last attempt to generate a Twitter hashtag meme #McDStories registered a fail when consumers used it to spread their own McDonald's horror stories. But if you think that the fast-food giant would take a hiatus from social media, ...
(Mar 16, 2012, Crain's Chicago Business)
Ryan Gosling Meme Makes Women Everywhere Happy On Friday
It may be Friday, Friday -- the day that according to Rebecca Black we all "gotta get down" -- but here in New York it's gloomy and gray outside. After a full week of working hard, sometimes it's difficult to motivate yourself through the last few ...
(Mar 16, 2012, Huffington Post (blog))
Lessons on Vice, Liberties and the Law
Last weekend in Missouri, Rick Santorum, proclaiming his commitment to those places not on the coasts, took an opportunity to denigrate New York City, reviving a conservative meme that casts urbanism as the sinful twin of a mythic and decent real ...
(Mar 17, 2012, New York Times)
Bragg: Indignant, concerned and lazy
The Internet meme known as Invisible Children — raising awareness about brutal Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and his disturbing habit of kidnapping kids to serve as soldiers or sex slaves — proves yet again that America isn't a nation as much as ...
(Mar 17, 2012, San Antonio Express)
Real Salt Lake v New York Red Bulls - Live!
Early bid for a meme change from the streamers wrapped round Meara's goal, but I'm standing firm. Drummers, people. Second half approaching: BJB is back and whistling nonchalantly: "How can you tell a long-time supporter of the team from someone who ...
(Mar 18, 2012, The Guardian)
'I Hid the Body' Text Prank Backfires, Teen Arrested
That's the popular internet meme you see pictured below, and the inspiration behind a real-life text prank gone wrong. It seems that a 15-year-old Arkansas teen was inspired by the cute joke after seeing the meme on the site Pinterest, so she decided ...
(Mar 19, 2012, Gather.com)
Auto Bailout Becomes a Central Meme for Obama 2012 Campaign
It's become of meme for Obama. An improved, energy-efficient car, for an improved energy-efficient economy. This month, the campaign stepped it up even further. On March 14, a press release landed in my inbox from the Obama Biden campaign with the ...
(Mar 19, 2012, Transportation Nation)
Israel and Iran: Make memes, not war
A Facebook meme inspired by a similar one over the weekend in which ordinary Israelis and Iranians posted pictures imposed with peace slogans. (Facebook) Over the weekend, groups of Israeli and Iranian netizens decided to ditch their respective ...
(Mar 19, 2012, GlobalPost (blog))
Invisible Children's Jason Russell's antics make a meme famous
There's a new meme in town: Konying. The KONY2012 video by Invisible Children founder Jason Russell may have more than 83 million views on YouTube and another 17.4 million on Vimeo, but it's not the anti-Joseph Kony video that's making the rounds ...
(Mar 19, 2012, MetroNews Canada)
The love Iranians meme isn't new
By Ron Kampeas · March 19, 2012 The social media campaign launched by an Israeli pair of graphic artists, proclaiming love for Iranians, has a commercial precedent -- one that even forecasts the current campaign. An Israeli long distance/Internet ...
(Mar 19, 2012, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (blog))
'Tebowing' Will Outlive QB's Denver Days, Says Meme's Creator
But there's no need to say a prayer for “Tebowing,” the campy Internet meme that dominated the web last fall, says Jared Kleinstein, the 24-year-old inventor of the viral meme. ESPN reported on Monday that free agent Manning has chosen the Broncos as ...
(Mar 20, 2012, Mashable)
Inslee leaving behind US House but not pension
(March 19, 2012, by TSG) MORE seattle chickster - Apparently it is, as their stories feed into the ridiculous meme th... (March 19, 2012, by not4u) MORE WASHINGTON — Jay Inslee officially gives up his $174000-a-year seat in the US House of ...
(Mar 20, 2012, The Seattle Times)
Do We Want Don Draper to Be Happy?
Posted on 11:30 am Tuesday Mar 20, 2012 Sad Don Draper emerged midway through Season 4 of Mad Men and quickly became the show's most contagious Internet meme. A single screenshot from an episode called “The Suitcase,” it's simply Jon Hamm's character ...
(Mar 20, 2012, Flavorwire)
New York Times' "Wealthy Neurotic Parent" Meme Distorts Chemical Safety Issue
You may have seen the March 15 front page article in the New York Times Home Section, "Is it Safe to Play Yet? Going to Extreme Lengths to Purge Household Toxins." The article provides a useful overview and some genuinely expert commentary on the ...
(Mar 20, 2012, Huffington Post (blog))
Nightcaps: Marmageddon strikes New Zealand!
The UC Davis pepper spray cop quickly became a fabulous internet meme, and now he's also been immortalized on the hot sauce at Frjtz. [SFoodie] Dynamo Donuts is opening a little offshoot, on the Marina Green. [Tablehopper] New Zealand is freaking out ...
(Mar 21, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle (blog))
Blurtt Wants You To Express Yourself With Mobile Memes
One obvious use is to create memes or wannabe memes. In fact, the app allows users to choose modify existing Blurtts to their liking, so if you've hit on a funny word/image combination, everyone else can immediately offer their own variant, ...
(Mar 21, 2012, TechCrunch)