From: Upworthy

Rick Santorum Comes Out Of Retirement To Say The Craziest, Most Bigoted Thing I’ve Ever Heard

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As we all know, a single television show was probably the cause of all this “gay marriage nonsense,” but it’s been almost impossible to figure out which show it was … until now. Special thanks to Susie Sampson for the exclusive story.

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

1970s Pop Icon David Cassidy Sues Sony

(CNN) — Pop star David Cassidy filed suit on Wednesday against Sony, claiming he was not paid for his image on merchandise from the hit television show, “The Partridge Family,” in which he starred.

“For nearly 40 years, defendants have swindled Mr. Cassidy out of his rightful share of the profits from The Partridge Family, and when Mr. Cassidy has inquired as to the matter, have lied to him so as to continue to conceal their deception,” said the lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

“Mr. Cassidy has reason to believe, and does reasonably believe, that defendants have been perpetrating a scam” and “will continue to go to any and all lengths necessary, no matter how despicable, to avoid upholding” his contract, the suit said.

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Under his 1971 contract with Screen Gems, Cassidy was supposed to get 15 percent of net merchandising revenues for the use of his image, voice or likeness, and no more than half of that for items in which that if other cast members appeared.

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The suit said the show, which aired from 1970 to 1974, was one of the first — if not the first — to be merchandized on a worldwide scale with board games, magazines, coloring books, paperbacks, posters, pillow cases, toy guitars, dollars, lunch boxes, beach towels, pencil cases, comic books, children’s’ clothing, and music sales.

“All of which, it has been reported by knowledgeable news sources, generated nearly $500 million for defendants,” the suit said.

(Cassidy) told CNN that his former manager told him he has only been paid about $5,000 for merchandise. […]

diegueno:

(via Wall Photos)

Here’s where I think the real problem is: the Post Office is a public-private hybrid — it’s controlled by Congress, but receives no taxpayer money. They should flip that. That’s a terrible business plan. They should be more like Halliburton, which gets lots of taxpayer money, and is controlled by no one.

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—	STEPHEN COLBERT, on how to fix the U.S. Postal Service’s financial woes, on The Colbert Report (via inothernews)

Are you missing out on the good parts of life because you still don’t have a big-screen TV?

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Let me just say this: the good parts of life are not to be found on television. The good parts of life are all around you already, in the faces of family and friends, in the amazing richness of nature, in all the wonders and mysteries of science. Don’t worry about the TV. You’re just fine without it.

(via undercovernun)

utnereader:

Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger are two Internet archivists who have put together a project called “Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive.” Kahle explains: “[9/11] was a major event, that was really a television event. People understood this through television.”

The archive is a collection of 3,000 hours of television news from around the world from September 11 to September 17. The project is exhaustive and impressive, at times even overwhelming—seeing all the news organizations’ coverage in one spot. Watching Charles Gibson reference New York fashion week going into a break, on the other side of which would be footage of one burning tower, has an effect like nothing felt on the page. It brings you back to that exact moment. Read more …