According to Boing Boing, AT&T’s terms of service now say they can
terminate your contract if you criticize them.
I wonder how enforcible that is? Can they legally make that claim? Often terms of service will have a clause about what happens if a court finds some part of the Terms of Service illegal or unenforceable. [...]

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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 [...]

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That might be overstating it a bit, but the
comments on this post about pet rocks never quite reaches Beevis & Butthead quality thought. The post itself seems pretty interesting except for one paragraph in the middle where the author attempts to explain the appeal of the pet rock, but instead sounds like a spam [...]

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Padilla was found guilty yesterday. I first mentioned Padilla in 2004, when he was still being illegally held without charge or access to counsel as an “enemy combatant.” And after years of isolation and torture he was finally released into the civil justice system on charges far less than what he was originally accused of [...]

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I assumed at some point someone would suggest that the bridge in Minneapolis collapsed because needed repairs were shorted or ignored in order to keep taxes low. And that someone else would say “how dare you bring politics into this?” As though, you know, bridges collapse for no reason. Sure enough, commenter “Paul” at Boing [...]

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