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I don’t get something.

The NY Times is about to charge its online readers for its articles.

Free web people (read: freetards) are losing their minds and pointing out how this represents an outdated business model and is doomed to failure. This can’t succeed.

Doesn’t the NY Times know anything about the link economy? Don’t they [...]

Just one of the many people Obama beat out in winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

Sima Samar, women’s rights activist in Afghanistan: “With dogged persistence and at great personal risk, she kept her schools and clinics open in Afghanistan even during the most repressive days of the Taliban regime, whose laws prohibited the education of [...]

President Obama yesterday rolled out the red carpet — and handed out doctors’ white coats as well, just so nobody missed his hard-sell health-care message.

In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform, the White House orchestrated a massive photo op to buttress its claim that front-line physicians support Obama.

A sea of 150 white-coated [...]

It’s obvious, when analysts talk about something, who their “crowd” is because sometimes they miss things that are so obvious it’s actually offensive to those of us that employ the age old “common sense” technique to understanding things. While common sense doesn’t always mean “correct,” it does often get you started in a direction [...]

So after weeks and weeks of convincing us that the government can in fact do health care effectively and efficiently, what analogy does the President draw when talking?

Not that Bush was a stirring speech giver, but Barack Obama, many times since he’s been our President, has just put his foot deeply into his gaping maw [...]

Forbes is out with their list of the most overpriced cars in America. Of course, they’re all American cars (God forbid you do some research and throw a foreign car in or two). One of them really caught my eye, though.

What’s so special about the Trailblazer?

Well nothing, unless you consider the fact that [...]

If you need proof that we’re doomed as a society, I offer up this one for your perusal. Never in the history of mankind has our upcoming demise as a species been so obvious.

A woman sued General Mills because “The plaintiff, Janine Sugawara, alleged that she had only recently learned to her dismay that [...]

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Finally, there was the conversation weaving between, of all things, Miss California U.S.A. Carrie Prejean, the same-sex marriage opponent who the panel had already mocked at length, and Bo, the Obama family’s Portuguese water dog.

When Mr. Axelrod was asked how involved he was in the selection of Bo, he jokingly answered that he “only [...]

Look… I’m not saying Kelly Clarkson is a disaster. I’m not even saying she’s not attractive. Her weight isn’t an issue for me. Not in the slightest. In fact, I think she looks good with a little more curve to her. What annoys me is the absolutely ridiculous amount [...]

I think, if anything, the BS term of the year would have to be “community.” In the era of social networking and social media, everything is all about community. We have to have twittering plants, twittering babies, and even blogs for our kids who aren’t even old enough to speak, let alone write. [...]

A Maury County woman has been charged with reckless homicide for what her attorney says was the accidental asphyxiation of her husband after he consented to be bound and gagged.

“The whole family is upset with what occurred,” Samuel Patterson, an attorney representing 25-year-old Rebecca Bargy, told Columbia newspaper The Daily Herald. “We stand by the [...]

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds Mitt Romney with a slight lead in Florida’s Republican Presidential Primary. John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are close behind in what may develop into a three-man race. It’s Romney at 25%, McCain at 20%, and Giuliani at 19%. Romney has picked up seven points over the past week [...]

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This is what happens when your retention schmucks don’t listen to the person who calls.

Matt Haughey:

Today I called to cancel and I knew it might be painful so I decided to record it. The total call was 12 minutes long, about half of that spent with a retention specialist. The best part of the call [...]

Why do Europeans have such a hard-on for Apple? First the whole DRM thing in whatever country it was in (Norway or something?). Now this drivel:

an interesting suggestion from the CEO of Carphone Warehouse has got Europeans looking a bit more closely at how things will eventually be ran in their neck of [...]

The folks behind Family Guy are getting the last laugh in a legal tussle with Carol Burnett after a federal judge tossed a lawsuit by the famous funnylady over an episode that parodied her.

As Stewie Griffin might proclaim, “Victory is mine!”

In her suit, filed in March in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Burnett claimed [...]

I don’t get it. I’m a very simple guy, but I really don’t get it. RWW posts about the Webbys like they matter:

This week the winners of the 11th annual Webby Awards, billed nowadays as the “Oscars of the Internet”, were announced at a ceremony in New York. Much of the publicity was [...]