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It's not shocking to see how the corporate masters of people like Ann Coulter and Don Imus to insist in selling them as valuable assets. They prop up and pay bigots because they represent millions of dollars. Hate is the road most travelled.

Hate is easy to exploit, it's an emotion that replicates faster than love thanks to the addictive qualities of adrenaline. Capitalism is based on the mining of adrenaline through the celebration of hate, the use of addictive substances in food, the exploitation of fear.

The big companies behind the likes of Rush Limbaugh will make sure their well-oiled money machines keep on raking in the benjamins. What is shocking to this cynic heart is to see how civil rights advocates fall for the money crap when it comes to gauging the worthiness of a cause.

It's still astounding to me to hear and read people on the left rationalize keeping racists and mysogynists by the measure of money they generate or popularity they have. More than once I've seen people on TV or read emails of people who said "why bother" when it comes to calling for Imus' oust.

And you know this is not just on big media outlets --FireDogLake is the perfect example of the racist pox on the lefty blogosphere being defended by many because of their popularity and for the amount of money they've raised for democrats.

Sigh.

Don Imus' money machine should be unplugged in much the same way Ann Coulter's and Rush Limbaugh's. Here's what Chris Rabb has to say about that :

Infothought: Google Transferable Stock Options (TSO's) or how Seth Finkelstein succeeds at redifining web 2.0 with Google's Transferable Stock Options tool as Citizen Lunchmeat.

Eat The Press | Craigslist Robs Food From the Mouths of Journalist's Babies | The Huffington Post or how media dinosaurs cry the money blues.

BetaNews | Yahoo: Lower Page Views Due to AJAX or, if it takes a giant like Yahoo! to discredit a site rankings based on pageviews, oh lord have mercy, that would be so fine by me indeed. AJAX is a thing of web wonder that more sites should have to do away with the non-contextual page refreshing that happens due to non-dynamic designs. BTW, if you don't understand what I am talking about, don't worry. This is a shout-out to the techies in the community.

TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Le Web3 the good, bad and ugly., or the seedy underbelly of Web 2.0 technology conferences.

SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check - Valleywag or how PR and marketing departments are selling the virtual lie that is Second Life. This is Clay Shirky at his best and I am definitely coming back to this article.