futurejournalismproject:

The US ranks 47 on Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index

Coming in at the top two spots are Finland and Norway.

Coming just before the US: Tawain, Comoros and South Korea.

Just after: Argentina, Romania and Latvia.

Via Reporters Without Borders:

The United States (47th) also owed its fall of 27 places to the many arrests of journalist covering Occupy Wall Street protests.

laughingsquid:

Portal Themed Christmas Tree

beingblog:

by Rabbi Rebecca Schorr, guest contributor

Second-grade students from a public school in New York play with dreidels and gelt after lighting the menorah at the Eldridge St. Synagogue. (photo: Stephen Chernin/Getty Images)

Each December, parents at my children’s public school are…

eatsleepdraw:

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justinday:

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huffingtonpost:

The audience let out a very audible groan, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) was caught on the C-SPAN camera doing the rimshot gesture.

life:

Would you look at that, the merry old man himself! One of our (favorite) Christmas pictures in LIFE’s history — see more here.