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The AP is reporting that Toledo, Ohio is ticketing residents for parking in their own driveways: TOLEDO, Ohio – Residents of Toledo, Ohio, are complaining that they received $25 tickets for parking their vehicles in their own driveways. Mayor Carty Finkbeiner says he stands… Continue Reading “This is Obscene”
MSN Money pointed me to an interesting editorial in Forbes magazine. The author is pointing out the plusses to the recession. For people that have money. It is all things we have heard before – the deals are out there, the service is better,… Continue Reading “Letting Them Eat Cake”
USA Today had a fun article about how everyone on Facebook and Twitter is boring: “We all have to go to status-update charm school,” jokes Hal Niedzviecki, author of The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, who joined… Continue Reading “Stupid Facebook and Stupid Blogging”
My friend Jenny has a theory, first formulated in college: Women meet the right guy and decide they want to get married. Men decide to get married and ask whomever they happen to be with at the time. I have always found this a… Continue Reading “Theories”
I was introduced to David Carradine when he scared the crap out of me as Justin LaMotte in North & South. Yes. I know that isn’t how you knew him. I did not follow his career particularly closely and I don’t know what happened… Continue Reading “Carradine”
I refuse to shop at Wal-Mart. Mostly it is because I have read an awful lot about the way the corporation treats employees and I do not approve. I also learned – in school – about the Wal-Mart model of vendor relationships, which are… Continue Reading “Capitalism”
I like Tony Kornheiser, but he made me crazy on MNF. So I am not sorry to see Fox Sports reporting that he is giving it up. And Chucky is replacing him! Kornheiser says: “If I could handpick a replacement of a football guy,… Continue Reading “Changes at MNF”
Friday, on my way to the Library to help set up the book sale, I passed by a new resale store. I forget the name but it had a big tarp sign that didn’t even cover the outline of the old sign – the… Continue Reading “Another Thrift Shop”
USA Today ran another of those “what are we spending our money on during the recession?” articles. No surprises, really, but here was a good point: Still, when the economy grinds to a halt, people clench their teeth. That could mean spending money at… Continue Reading “The Dentist”
Speaking of obnoxious things people do with their cell phones, msnbc.com ran an article called, Are you App-noxious? that listed a whole new type of offensive behavior that I didn’t even know existed: “Three of my colleagues purchased the iPhone calorie counter app and… Continue Reading “App-noxious?”
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