"Brin said he has already been playing around with the device and described an application he developed that allows him to throw up his phone and calculate the amount of time it takes before it hits the ground." -- This is one of the reasons why I think The Founders are cool. They have such a dry, sarcastic, nerdly sense of humor. - Sudhakar Chandra
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"A new series from Radio 4 charts the development of the United States, exploring three key themes: Empire, Liberty and Faith." - Sudhakar Chandra
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"What happens when the voters discover that an amount double the entire bill for the Iraq war so far is suddenly being given to a handful of Wall St. firms who made horrible business decisions over the years and when nothing is being done about health care insurance and probably won't be in the foreseeable future due to the budget crunch?" - Sudhakar Chandra
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"The myth of the pro-Obama media is the same as the myth of the liberal press, and it has been created by a standard strategy: Right-wing pundits declare repeatedly and vociferously that the media are biased in favor of liberals; centrist media pundits, who generally prefer critiques from the right because they don’t make a structural challenge to their work, concede that they have a point; and progressive critics, excluded from both the pro-establishment and the right-wing talkshows that dominate the media, go unheard." - Sudhakar Chandra
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