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Martha Stewart is up my nose

Now, why was it I don’t like Martha Stewart again? Oh, yeah, it’s that sense that she’s the center of the universe. Mark Frauenfelder interviews Martha Stewart for Wired, where she trods heavily on my
earbud nerves.

Stewart: I think we are insane. I used to get 120 to 140 phone calls a day. And now rarely [...]

Not even the USPS can fix stupid

Item in Boing Boing yesterday. Alison tries to “get funky” with her wedding invitations and gets slapped with a surcharge:

I thought you’d get a kick out of the ridiculousness that is the United States Postal “Service.” I’m getting married at the end of the summer and am using a lovely red No 10 standard size envelope. [...]

Blame the professors

Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings reports that some wingnuts have latched onto
blaming the VT English program for Cho. She quotes James Lewis, who goes on for a bit about all the horrible Marxism and nihilism he seems to think is going on there. And then he says:
The question I have is: Are university faculty doing their [...]

Don Imus, racism, and words

Here is what everyone’s been talking about.

DON IMUS: So I watched the basketball game last night between a little bit of Rutgers and Tennessee, the women’s final.
SID ROSENBERG: Yeah, Tennessee won last night, seventh championship for Pat Summitt, I-Man. They beat Rutgers by thirteen points.
DON IMUS: Some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they’ve got tattoos and [...]

Thud’s “Real World”

I’m going to insert myself into this rather foolish argument because I haven’t had enough coffee this morning to tackle anything else. Also, “Sifu Tweety” is stepping on my career, my hobby, and my society. Arguing with a gent named Robert Green, Sifu Tweety says:
bq. Here’s why the internet is, and will always be, different than [...]

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