I remember before the summer started a lot of media-heads saying that the President had until September, roughly, to straighten things out in Iraq. And that Republican congressmen, conscious of the horrible presidential approval ratings, would peel off from the President come September if the surge didn’t work.
It is the end of September and [...] Read more »

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Somehow, this Coupon from Papa John’s is less of a deal than it at first sounds:

That’s the problem with fine print on the web; you can’t get it fine enough. Read more »

Posted in What The...?!? 4 Comments »

If we dispose of Net Neutrality and allow telecommunications companies to tier their service, it will decimate my career and destroy independently published sites like Thudfactor which don’t have the funds for preferential treatment. But it’s a confusing concept for most people to grasp. Fortunately, someone has made a graphic of what you could see [...] Read more »

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One of our neighbors has a multitude of bumper-stickers on her truck for Randolph-Macon Women’s College which — on July 1 of this year — went co-ed and changed it’s name to “Randolph College.” I have no opinion on the matter.
I do have an opinion on one of my neighbor’s bumper-stickers, however, which reads “Keep [...] Read more »

Posted in Speaking Very Slowly 13 Comments »

I’m not sure what coverage is like in the news outlets and weblogs you are reading, but I find it surprising I haven’t seen more bloggy coverage of the Alexis Debat debacle (Debatle?)
Alexis Debat was a consultant to ABC and the source of several inflammatory news stories and interviews that now appear to have been [...] Read more »

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