Guys, guyettes. Let’s all take a break. It’s been a long week – five entire days – and we deserve to have a moment for ourselves. Whirl around in your office chair. Take a swig from your secret egg nog flask and/or loudly hum the dreidel song while spinning various objects. Steal a co-worker’s staple [...]

The “Rewrite” segment of The Last Word is typically the home of Lawrence O’Donnell‘s most poignant political statement of the night, in which to call out hypocrisy or attack injustice. Today, however, O’Donnell dedicated the segment to a personal pet peeve: “guys who don’t want you to know their first names,” like Willard “Mitt” Romney and James “Rick” Perry.

Are you sick and tired of partisan politicians doing what’s in their best interest and no one else’s? Well, the CEO of Starbucks agrees with you. And he is calling for a boycott on all campaign contributions until Washington gets its act together.

It’s no secret that large corporations still have to figure out social media. Even when they’re not buttoned-up and unresponsive, they’re routinely outmatched by smaller, chattier Tweeters. We put together seven surprising comparisons between deep-pocketed companies and their offbeat Twitter competitors. Spoiler alert: a farting robot is in the same league as a $30 billion corporation.

Morning Joe was all about volunteerism and New Orleans today.

But it really wasn’t. It was about Starbucks, their integrated brand sponsor that is finding new and unique scenarios to work its way into actual news content on the show. It’s something NBC does best (or worst, depending on your point of view).

Starbucks is rolling out its own brand of instant coffee this week, and they’re employing a very topical, if slightly risky, ad campaign to do it. First aired during the premiere of Saturday Night Live, this ad for “Via” gambles heavily that the “angry mob” will either have a sense of humor about themselves, or weren’t going to patronize Starbucks in the first place:

The Huffington Post, which currently profits off of the blood, sweat, and tears of its many hapless unpaid contributors (j/k), has hit upon a new way to involve its readers in the creative process: crowdsourcing headlines through Twitter.