Well, I’m certainly terrrified now

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/us/30costume.html?_r=1&ref=education
So no American Armed Forces or Law Enforcement costumes. I mean, one can only take these things to their logical conclusions, right? There are a whole mess of toy, comic, cartoon, and similar child hood properties that are right out. This absolutely fails to balance a damn thing.
You know what used to get you sent [...]

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Someone is getting paid for this

http://www.thinkb4youspeak.com/
I find the fact that someone is getting paid to develop this campaign troubling enough. For that matter, these things take a lot of people to plan and implement, and I’ll bet they aren’t all volunteers.
What I find more troubling – and this is coming from one of the people who represented the free speech [...]

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Alumna sues college because she hasn’t found a job

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/03/new.york.jobless.graduate/index.html
Seriously? WTF?
“They’re supposed to say, ‘I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right — can you interview this person?’ They’re not doing that,” she said.
(That would be a 2.7 btw…) No. No, that is not actually their job. And, Employers could care less what your GPA was, they want job [...]

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Which were false, Mr. Michael?

Updated: August 4, 2009 08:45 est
http://www.podcastingnews.com/2009/07/28/chicago-realty-group-sues-woman-for-50000-over-a-tweet/
Once in a while the articles I link to here say things more eloquently than I could readily improve upon.
Edit… Later that same day… Edits… As I find them.
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-bar-tender/2009/07/horizon-realty-responds-to-twitter-lawsuit-buzz-with-a-press-release.html
http://www.experiencetheblog.com/2009/07/social-pr-crisis-and-response-how.html
This third link contains many more links and a very cogent explaination of where Horizon erred, why they were in error, and [...]

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Fear Koan Addendum

I noticed today that the fine folks at google finally got around to actually deleting my old blogs. My account has been disabled for… I don’t remember how long.
What the hell were they waiting for?
Chromatic Metonymy. Fear Koans. you were fine blogspots and we hardly knew ye.
All I ever wanted was an explanation.
If any of [...]

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Egypt is where now?

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200907270040
There was a time when I was in high school that the good old U S of A was invading Iraq in the defense of Kuwait. A class was asked, “Locate Saudi Arabia on the world map.” Understand that it was on the news every night. Understand that TV was pretty much the only media [...]

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It’s Pop Art.

The ONLY case that the makers of the candy specified in the article have is MAYBE that they are selling product out of it with certificates of authenticity that sort of imply some sort of official sanction by the company that owns the trademarks in question. If they have a legal case for anything, it [...]

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