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NY TIMES: "Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, made $27 million in 2010. They held millions of dollars in a Swiss bank account and millions more in partnerships in the Cayman Islands. His family’s trusts sold thousands of shares in Goldman Sachs that were offered to favored clients when the storied investment house first went public. The couple’s effective federal tax rate for the year worked out to 13.9 percent, a rate typical of households earning about $80,000 a year. Yet the hundreds of pages of tax documents released by Mr. Romney’s campaign on Tuesday morning did not readily reveal any elaborate financial legerdemain or exotic tax shelters. What Mr. Romney’s returns illustrated, instead, was the array of perfectly ordinary ways in which the United States tax code confers advantages on the rich, allowing Mr. Romney to amass wealth under rules very different from those faced by most Americans who take home a paycheck." «
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Happy Birthday to Square One TV, which turns 25 today. Here’s a memory from one of us.
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25?!? Fuck, I’m old.
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Infographic of the Day: Using geo data from photos uploaded by users to Google’s Panoramio, Sightsmap generates an interactive heatmap of the most frequently photographed spots around the world. [petapixel.]
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With a False Start on Paterno's Death, SEO Journalism Fails Again «
“This is not a lone error. It is an inevitable mishap in a media environment that frequently seems to value fast information over accurate information. For news organizations, being first means huge traffic. For consumers, hearing or reading information first means being the first to tweet it or put it on Facebook. Either way, the addiction to immediacy can be damaging in the long run.”







