It seems the Romney Campaign LLC™® is buying up ads on Pandora’s iPhone app and website. Here’s a screen grab courtesy of The Atlantic Wire:

The popup asks listeners for their email addresses to be shared with the campaign.

How have I just discovered explore.org’s collection of live cameras? Today’s obsession: Alaskan bears noming on some salmon. Apologies to Stephen Colbert.

This is a post about two approaches to the same problem, and how those approaches highlight the biggest difference between conservative media outlets and “mainstream” news organizations.

This morning, a 24 year old man opened fire in a sold-out Aurora, Colorado midnight screening of the highly anticipated Batman movie. So far, he is responsible for 12 deaths, dozens of injuries and hundreds of grieving friends and family.

But there is no such thing as a nonpartisan tragedy nowadays, and commentators were quick to assess the political ramifications of the horrific shooting.

Alert the operator of The Drudge Report siren, I have breaking news: Hollywood writers read ThinkProgress.

Right-wing bloggers could be heard screeching from their playpen in the kiddie section of the internet last week after The Daily Caller revealed that the writers on HBO’s new show The Newsroom have a tendency to read news articles while dramatizing news events. And — surprise! — somehow I ended up a central player in this new discovery:

Almost every morning, I spend the entire 2o minutes it takes me to get from my front door to 14th and H Street locked in an interminable, internal struggle over where best I should situate myself on the bus, and I’m starting to get the sense that there are better things I can be doing with my commute.