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If It’s Part Of a Series, Tell Me!

I went to my local Barnes & Noble yesterday to pick up book 18 of the Aubrey–Maturin series, The Yellow Admiral. While there, I looked around just to see what else was available. I’m a sucker for great cover artwork and … Continue reading

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Yahoo Groups And the Hard Bounce

I’ve been a member of several groups at Yahoo! Groups since before Yahoo bought eGroups. That’s quite a long time. At 06:30 this morning, I realized that I hadn’t seen any email from any of those groups for a while. … Continue reading

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Chase Bank Forces Conversation With Salesweasel

I just tried to activate my two Chase bank credit cards and both times, even though it’s supposed to be a completely automated process, before I could do it I had to speak to a salesman. The recording as they … Continue reading

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I Want To Buy a Pig And Name It Mohammed

If you haven’t heard about this, you should have. A British teacher working in Sudan (why on Earth, I don’t know) has been imprisoned for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Mohammed.” That’s right, she’s in jail for … Continue reading

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Two Restaurants, Two Crappy Meals

We’ve been to two restaurants since Thursday night: the Big Joy Chinese place in Stone Mountain, GA and the local Red Robin and both served up crappy meals. The first was the Big Joy. No joy there for us. While … Continue reading

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bOING bOING Morons

I swear I keep wondering to myself why I bother to read bOING bOING because they are nothing but a bunch of intellectually small, whiny liberals. Occasionally they post something cool, but most of the time they just whine about … Continue reading

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Just Shoot Him, Already!

For the past 36 hours, a wanted murderer from Florida has been sitting on a construction crane, several hundred feet in the air, keeping police at bay, in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. The august police force has completely shutdown … Continue reading

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No RSS or Atom Feed? Why Not?

One of my biggest annoyances of late is finding an interesting/cool/useful blog, only to discover that they have neither an RSS feed nor an Atom feed. This annoys me because, as a rule, I don’t visit blogs by hand. In … Continue reading

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I Hate People With Nextel Phones

Yes, that’s right. I said “I hate people with Nextel phones.” And why do I hate these people? Because they use that damned walkie-talkie feature of their phones without regard for those who might be around them. I’m sick and … Continue reading

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Once Again, This Time With Feeling

OK, folks, the Grammar Nazi™, here. It’s time for a little lesson on spelling and grammar. Today we are discussing the similar, yet very different words “your” and “you’re” since so many people can’t seem to use them properly. “Your” … Continue reading

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How Do You Think Those Babies Feel?

This article is about a demonstration by Students for Life at the University of Maryland, College Park, showing graphic photos of aborted babies. There are quite a few students who didn’t appreciate the photos. I guess if you have convinced … Continue reading

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Virus Writers

For all you worthless punks out there who get off on writing and spreading computer viruses, I’d like to paraphrase Robert DeNiro as Al Capone in The Untouchables. And here’s what I’d like to say: I want you all DEAD!!! … Continue reading

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Instant Message From the RIAA

This is a really funny and sad story all at the same time. Funny because the RIAA surprised 200k thieves on the Grokster and Kazaa file stealing – er, sorry – sharing networks with an instant message telling them that … Continue reading

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Foul-Smelling Smokers

I got this from Neal Boortz this morning. I totally agree: A Georgia lawmaker wants a law to make it a crime to smoke inside a car in which a child is restrained in a car seat. Let’s go further. … Continue reading

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Today Is a Sad Anniversary

Today is the 30th anniversary of the disgusting, abhorrent, terrible Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. Yes, it was 30th years ago today that the murder of the unborn was legalized. Since then 42 million children have been systematically … Continue reading

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Arianna Huffington, Environmentalist Whacko

I’m sure you’ve seen those ridiculous ads paid for by Arianna Huffington equating those who drive SUVs with terrorists and terrorist-supporters. I’ll remember that the next time I’m gassing up my Ford Expedition. The spots claim that since SUVs suck … Continue reading

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Screw BellSouth!!!

I am so mad right now I can hardly see straight! My DSL provider for the last 18 months, DirecTV DSL has gone Tango Uniform, so now I have to find a new DSL provider. I had settled on SpeakEasy.net … Continue reading

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