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On twitter, and they got trolled epically with questions like, is it true billionaires have money vaults. do uh ever get the urge to drink from a chalice. or this. why dont your bios disclose your corporate ties and conflicts of interest, with a helpful link to a page disclosing all the conflicts of interest. susie kim did a little research and concluded the entire q&a was 100% trolling, making it the most disastrous online interaction since the ill-fated hashtag, ask anthony weiner anything. an...

Good night, shutdown, wish it was all just a dream. good night to the guy in the corner of the screen, good night, conan, who furloughed his crew. good night to the couple who still say i do. good night, priests, good night to the congressman who fell asleep. the second awesomest things on the internet today, the debt ceiling was raised, so its no surprise that fix the debt has once again showed up. its the brainchild to have peter peterson, who uses the comedy duo of alan simpson and erskine bo...

Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans. >> we just have a report from our correspondent dan rather in dallas that he has confirmed that president kennedy is dead. >> in the nearly 50 years since the assassination of jfk, much has been written about conspiracy theory about his death and his sexual appetite. but a new moment by moment look of the presidents last hundred days of his life bringing someth...

Athletes who compete. you drilled down on a few specific stories here. >> absolutely. you know, we think that the senior games is one of the best-kept secrets in sports over 300,000 athletes across the country compete who are 50 and older. we partnered with the association that puts on the games and they sent out a casting call on our behalf. we had over 1,000 responses to the call, people sending photos, bios, stories about their competition. and we ended up sitting through all those -- all tho...

Screaming personal. do we believe rachel about the conversation she had or do we believe what zimmerman has. they have to deal with the prosecutions web of lies. are these really lies? are these significant lies or just clarifications. that will form the basis of their ultimate thinking as they apply the facts to the jury instructions. >> i was looking at some of the description, the bios of up with of those on the jury. from those biographies, what do you think about the group? will they work w...

>> so when womens position in the labor force increased from 37% in 1970 to 48% in 2009, we added more than $2.5 trillion to our gdp just from womens increased participation. this is not, as my mom frequency says, just the right thing to do. it is the smart thing to do. >> when we talk about womens participation and womens involvement in the world, i must bring up the fact that your mother graced us all -- everyone is thrilled that she is now on twitter. she has -- in my humble opinion, one of t...

Listen to this exchange from monday. >> are greg hicks and mark thompson credible people? are they not long-standing career state department employees? are they credible? >> again, im not going to assess one individual or another. these are some folks who have said they are going to come out and tell a tore to congress and our message -- let me finish, let me finish. >> do they still work here. >> our message we have always encouraged state department employees who want to tell their personal st...

It always comes across as hokey, right? the tenth anniversary of the invasion of iraq is not just a commemoration for history sake, it is also its own current present day fight over how this story will be written down in history. it is contested ground in part because so many of the people that were wrong about iraq in the first place, people that caused that disaster, people that were factually wrong about it are still around in our politics and dont want to be remembered as the architects of d...

It always comes across as hokie, right? the tenth anniversary of the invasion of iraq is not just a commemoration for history sake, it is also its own current present day fight over how this story will be written down in history. it is contested ground in part because so many of the people that were wrong about iraq in the first place, people that caused that disaster, people that were factually wrong about it are still around in our politics and dont want to be remembered as the architects of d...

Expression for buzz? >> some noise around this name. that kind of thing. or find the french or portuguese, whatever. the second, you look at what other reporters are doing and you learn over the years whose byline you can trust and whose you cant. third thing, you listen to what the cardinals are laying out in terms of what they think qualities the next pope needs to have and match that against bios and you try to see if you can discern who theyre talking about. as i said in my post today, this ...