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The Susan G. Komen Foundation: Why It Sucks.
Note: I started writing this piece almost four years ago, in March of 2008. I... read more
Dealing with the two most annoying bugs in iOS 5
UPDATE: OCTOBER 15, 2011: Please read through the comments on this entry. Some... read more
How Not to Write a Comic Book: “Mr. Terrific #1″ (DC New 52)
Until I actually picked up and read "Mr. Terrific #1" I could honestly have... read more
How to Save Music Radio
The death of the former top-rated music station in the market has pushed some... read more
“Go To Hell” now available in paperback, hardback, Kindle, and Nook
My Young Adult novel Go To Hell is now available is paperback, hardback , and... read more
“Star Trek:” Why It Sucks (Part One)
In the interest of full disclosure, I really wanted to hate this movie. I... read more
Giant Nerd Battle Royale: The Starship Enterprise Vs. Space Battleship Yamato!
Somewhere, out in deep space, the Starship Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, is... read more
The Catcher In The Rye: Why It Sucks
After re-reading portions of Rumpled Trenchcoats and Rubber Bullets while... read more
Tag Archives: evil motherfuckers
Is Mitt Romney a Psychopath?
Listening to this week’s encore presentation of This American Life, I found myself once again enraptured by the story of “the Psychopath Test” as discussed in this book by Jon Ronson. When the show first aired almost a year ago I was taken aback by its story of how the test was created, has been used, and has been abused, over the decades. But in light of recent revelations I found myself with a different thought running through my head …
More fuckery from Comcast
I have a long history with Comcast, going back to 1992. When their franchise agreement was up with our City that year they pissed off a lot of customers by dropping MTV. (Now, in hindsight, that might have saved the world from Snooki, but I digress.) I launched a political campaign to reject their franchise renewal. That’s when the bullshit started. The local office would call me constantly, “lose” my bill payments, interrupt my service, and so on. One time …
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Well, it looks like I accidentally started something.
It looks like some remarks that I made have set off a shitstorm. Not what I intended, but maybe something that needed to happen. So let me talk here for a bit and try to set the record completely straight. Remember back during the days of the “enthusiasm gap” last year, when I wrote about why gays are getting pissed off at the Democrats? I quoted some of a letter I wrote to a politician I didn’t name at the …
Congresswoman Giffords is the new Fort Sumter.
(EDIT: Jan. 8, 3:15 PM EST) This piece was written shortly after the initial press reports of the death of Congresswoman Giffords, which have since been retracted. I pray for her recovery, but the other facts of this article remain the same, so I am leaving it up. 150 years ago a group of “Conservatives” who weren’t happy with the outcome of an election took matters into their own hands and started shooting. Today, the exact same thing happened. On …
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The GoDaddy Saga, in one complete package.
Since there have been new developments in the saga over this domain and GoDaddy, its not-for-much-longer registrar, I decided to put together the story, with links to other articles, in one piece here. The ordeal began early in the morning of December 15 when someone posted my domain for sale at Digital Point. If the original listing has disappeared you can access it through the Google Cache or as a last resort via this copy I saved on a server …
Why I keep harping on the treatment of gays by Democrats.
It’s official: the gay vote was way down this year. And the percentage of gay voters voting Republican also jumped from 19% to 31%. In a number of close districts, that’s more than enough to shift a seat from one party to the other. If you want to know why we’ve been so critical of President Obama and the Democrats for the cavalier way that they’ve treated LGBT Americans and our rights over the past two years, it can best …
Sometimes there IS no middle ground.
I take exception to the idea that we should all be working toward finding the middle ground on more issues with those who oppose us. I’m sorry, but that’s not always the case. Some things are either black or white, on or off, right or wrong. On some issues, there just IS no middle ground. Here are just a few. Civil rights To be absolutely blunt, there is no compromise on basic civil rights. You cannot find common ground with …
More Comcast bait and switching: the final straw.
You’ve noticed, no doubt, that I’ve been bitching about Comcast a lot lately. It’s the fact that they’re a monopoly in my neighborhood; two miles North and I’d have FiOS. (Our neighborhood is wired for fiber, they just won’t light it.) Two blocks North and I could get DSL. But here I’m trapped. And they know it. During my last dust-up, including my items on the bait and switch going on with a $10.60 rate no one qualifies for, I …
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Screenshots from Comcast bait and switch.
I blogged earlier today about the Comcast bait and switch over their “basic” cable plan. This is the price the website quoted me at http://www.comcast.com/shop/buyflow2/products.cspx: Here is a grab from my local channel lineup for that package, as quoted from the “View channel line-up” link visible above: I could give two shits about ESPN anything or INSP, and don’t really need ABC Family Anything, Animal Planet Anything, or Disney Channel HD, but sort of need my local stations in High …
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More misrepresentation from Comcast?
I went to the Comcast web site to consider downgrading my television service. Their website said that the “premium basic” package at $10.60 a month included my local channels in high definition. A CSR on the phone this morning told me that the package would actually be on a promotional price of $39.99 a month, and would NOT include local high-definition. Blatant bait and switch.