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I realize that since I do wear sandals, and Birks at that, I probably have no right to complain about flip flops, but here I am doing it.

This is from the NYTimes style section that they do on Wednesdays. If you open the picture in a separate window or tab, you’ll get a full [...]

Hint: There’s more than one thing wrong.

I use Limewire on occasion, mostly to download things I’m nominally interested in buying or to obtain something that would be on a greatest hits of the [insert decade here] compilation. A few common errors have appeared.

The song “The Boys Are Back in Town” is not a Bad Company song. It [...]

…but this is the funniest thing I’ve seen this week:

This publication obtained audiotapes of two meetings conducted by recently departed ad sales EVP Lisa Brown. In them, she repeatedly launches into obscenity-laced tirades, personally insults senior executives in her group, and at one point, pounds her shoe on the table, Khrushchev-style, when a creative director [...]

On Tuesday, Don Henley, yes that Don Henley, wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post called Killing the Music. While he’s certainly right that the music business is in trouble, I don’t think he truly understands why. I suppose he could be forgiven for getting it wrong. The music business certainly gets [...]

As you may or may not know, the Bureau of Labor Statistics do not count certain unemployed persons in the splashy, front-page unemployment number. These people are described as follows: “In some month, about n persons were marginally attached to the labor force…These individuals wanted and were available to work and had looked [...]

Bush’s decision to open the Tongass National Forest (in Alaska) to logging has officially bitten him in the ass. From USA Today:

The tree-huggers fume that government subsidies to the timber industry cost taxpayers hundreds of millions, and the nearly 5,000 miles of existing logging roads are enough. But a powerful rumble of discontent is [...]

The Atkins diet is under fire from all sides this week, it seems. Mayor Bloomberg chose to question the honesty of the some his own state’s M.E.s by suggesting that Dr. Atkins actually died from his diet instead of a blow to the head from falling on an icy sidewalk. Veronica Atkins is [...]

Recently, I was able to purchase from the Apple iTunes store an old favorite of mine, Alice Cooper’s _Elected_. After listening to that repeatedly, I started to think about a mix tape of rock and roll songs I could find that are about politics, but not about Viet Nam or the USSR or any [...]