Word: posterize
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...solutions, and a crushing consensus that the Republican Party seemed more interested in playing politics at a time of crisis than in behaving constructively. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a smart fellow if not yet a wise one, gave the Republican response to Obama's speech and quickly became the poster boy for his party's vacuity and cynicism. He had announced noisily that he was rejecting a portion of the stimulus money coming to his state - but it turned out to be a minuscule portion, little more than 2%. In other words, when the rubber met the road, he supported...
...dubbed Porno-Hippie-Swabian, referring to the inhabitants of Swabia, a region in southern Germany. "It's a deliberately exaggerated negative stereotype for people who come to Berlin from the wealthy southern German states and buy expensive apartments in Prenzlauer Berg," explains Technau. Several anti-gentrification groups launched poster campaigns that got the attention of the local and national media. "Swabians in Prenzlauer Berg ... what do you actually want here?" one of the posters read...
...more than $25,000 for private colleges - Morris Brown is "the only chance" for many of its students to attend college. "When we left the meeting, knowing the circumstance that we were in, we went out and rallied on our own," she says. Holding bright orange and white poster boards with slogans like "Save Our School" and "Stop to Write a Check Here," students swarmed the streets outside the school, approaching drivers at every light. Some even boarded city buses, collecting donations in increments as small as 20 cents. Between the students' efforts and a few large donations from faculty...
...single friends and the need for attention. Such motives, which would be decried as narcissistic in face-to-face conversation, somehow become socially acceptable when affirmed in the impersonal space of the Internet, where the safe barrier of the computer screen, and the absence of fact-checkers, separates the poster from the viewer and reality from fiction. The pervasive force of modern voyeurism—the fact that we can know intimate details about a person’s life and relationships without ever interacting with them, whether through Facebook, tabloids, or reality television—allows us to keep...
...held up a copy of her ‘Twilight’ book. She was talking about a fictional vampire. FML.”Unfortunately, few of the stories are so unambiguously amusing. A distressing number recount long periods of time in which the only person to contact the poster was his or her mother, clumsily discovered affairs, and the experience of getting laid off—often after having driven through a snowstorm to reach work on time. With consumer confidence plummeting after a month in which the U.S. lost nearly 600,000 jobs, this is a site...