Matthew Perry On Drug Addiction

The former “Friends” star takes a “drug addiction as choice” journalist to task for his facile and offensive views.

John Kenneth Galbraith On Modern Conservatism

The late economist, public official, diplomat and champion of 20th century American liberalism has some choice–and apt–words on the “intellectual” pursuits of the modern conservative class.

Here’s How The Internet “Creates Jobs”

The Article: Click farms are the new sweatshops by Lydia Depillis in The Washington Post.

The Text: Early in 2012, the world started to learn about the “like” market: Web sites that would juice your apparent popularity on various social media platforms by delivering bundled likes and followers, at the rate about $75 for 1,000. Brands, bands, and even the U.S. State Department spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to contract with one of the many companies that have sprung up to serve the demand, employing real humans for pennies a click.

On Sunday, the Associated Press reported on just how big of a business it’s become, complete with third-world outsourcing:

Dhaka, Bangladesh, a city of 7 million in South Asia, is an international hub for click farms.

The CEO of Dhaka-based social media promotion firm Unique IT World said he has paid workers to manually click on clients’ social media pages, making it harder for Facebook, Google and others to catch them. “Those accounts are not fake, they were genuine,” Shaiful Islam said.

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The Earth’s Next 100 Years, Visualized

Partisanship won’t end voluntarily; it might require environmental catastrophe. Watch and learn.

What Exactly Is It That Job Creators Do?

We all know that politics is about smoke and mirrors, but calling the uber-wealthy “job creators” is just an insult to intelligence.