You learn new things every day. Not necessarily useful things, but things. Possibly, these various items may pop up in a bar quiz someday. I can only hope. Today’s thing is Harriet Klausner. This was clued to me by one of SFSignal’s various tidbit posts. This post lists a comment train that has been continuing …
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AOL and its Customer Service Practices
I know nothing about AOL. I know nothing about AOL’s services, customer treatment, or business practices. I’ve never had an AOL account and been one of “them.” However, this link, forwarded to me by Meandering Starre shows a depth of disprespect that is unconscionable. I honestly don’t know what I would have done in Vincent’s …
Media Assasiniation
It’s official. John Karr is guilty of the JonBenet Ramsey killing in 1996. I know this because the media is now addressing him as John Mark Karr. History shows that killers have three names: John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Arthur Herman Bremer, Carlos the Jackal, Mark David Chapman, James Earl Ray, …
Intelligent Smoking?
Doing my morning read of the NY Times headlines email, I noticed the following article, “A Warning on Hazards of Secondhand Smoke.” Inside this article is found, “I am here to say the debate is over: the science is clear,” Dr. Carmona said at a televised news conference… Whoah! Whoah! Science? Since when does science …
Moronic Self Loathing = "Treasure Hunt"
I just wasted 45 minutes of my life. Usually, I don’t mind pissing away the allotted time I have before death, but this time, I resent it right down to my toenails. We Tivo’d NBC’s Treasure Hunt (to which I refuse to hyperlink) this evening. We sat down and started up the Tivo and slowwwwly …
Prairie Home, Hurricanes, and Levi's Call
Messy title, for a messy post. Here goes… We saw A Prairie Home Companion on Friday. I confess that I had high expectations for this movie, given the character of the radio show from Minnesota Public Radio. We arrived a few minutes before show time and didn’t have any problem getting seats. Let’s just say …
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First Round Pain!
Well, so much for me picking Iowa to win this years NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. [sigh] I was doing well first round right up to that moment. All of my first round picks that had not made it to second round were slated to lose there anyhow, so I still had plenty of opportunity to …
Gross Irregularity in Harry Potter Film
Seven days until Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire hits the theaters. I was poking around in the internet movie database and discovered a shocking irregularity. Spoilers follow! In this studio still from the filming, you will see the names on the tombstone where Harry is used to bring Volemort back to his mortal …
LOST is Crap, Tripe, Shit
You will note from my earlier post about Lost of one week ago that I was not particularly happy with the second episode of this Lost season. J. J. Abrams has proved to me, like he did with Alias, that he can take a good thing and absolutely ruin it. The first season of Lost …
America the Lazy
Yesterday was a special tax election for Cobb County, Georgia. The proposed tax was a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) that is a tool to allow municipalities and counties to levy themselves for specific, earmarked purchases. This SPLOST would be a 1% increase for 6 years. In this case, the SPLOST was for …