“From Brian Patton”:http://brianpatton.org/2006/02/22/bristol-herald-couriers-new-blog/ I see that the “_Bristol Herald Courier_ has a weblog”:http://bristolviews.mgblogs.com/. I’m pretty excited to see this.
I don’t know if there’s anyone left at the Herald Courier who knows this, but the Bristol Herald Courier web site turns ten this April. I know, because I made it.
The BHC was my first job out [...] Read more »

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For a very, very long time the notion that corporations had _any_ social responsibility has been laughed at by “serious-minded” conservatives, who’ve dodged taxes, fought to reduce health regulations, tried to prevent civil suits or punish those filing them, and sought increasingly more oppressive legislation to protect aging business models against new technology.
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Funded in part by “services for autistic children”:http://matchingtracksuits.com/2006/02/21/no-non-autistic-child-left-behind. Read more »

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Via “Sadly, No!”:http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002365.html comes this confusing article. A special Thudfactor prize[1] to the person who best manages to explain “what this article says”:http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/mohler/?adate=02/17/2006. ‘Cause I sure as hell can’t follow it.
From the article, it appears that Jennifer Roback Morse says “Marriage is an organic, pre-political institution that emerges spontaneously from society” that doesn’t really [...] Read more »

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Uh oh. Another lawsuit threatened against Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing, this time for “posting a story about a stolen camera”:http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/20/mysterious_lawer_thr.html.
The lawyer in question cannot spell “lawyer,” does not know the difference between libel and slander, refuses to say where he’s licensed to practice law, and offers to represent those mentioned on BoingBoung “in a [...] Read more »

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