I love how people continue to claim Billary is the front-runner. That is really kind of funny. She is a front runner is the polls, most of which are done with telephone calls. A number of the telephone polling is done with automated messages. When is the last time you listened to an automated message [...]

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Whether I realized it at the time, or not, I had made this decision in the summer of 2004. Seeing Barack Obama speak before the DNC Covention that year was the first time in my life (I’ll be 26 in April) that I had seen a living politician who inspired me. What’s more is that [...]

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Following George W. Bush, who only served six years as the Governor of Texas his presidency and hasn’t been that well-received, to put it lightly, the American people should make sure they vote for a qualified candidate. And in their never ending coverage of Obama, the American media loves to repeat the "experience question." [...]

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We’ve got a secret for you: Sweeney Todd is a musical. We understand there might be some confusion about that, seeing as how the television ads don’t have a single note of singing in them, and if you blink during the theatrical trailer, you’ll miss the five seconds of Johnny Depp singing buried in the [...]

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With gas prices on the rise, telecommuting has encountered renewed enthusiasm lately. With that enthusiasm comes, of course, continued debate as to whether or not telecommuting is more or less productive. Well, the latest study (which is actually an analysis of 46 other studies) finds that telecommuters are happier, less stressful, and have [...]

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I ran across this posting on Slashdot last night & thought that is was worth mentioning here:

Indus Khaitan writes “Thanks to twitter, SMS, and mobile web, a lot of people are using the url minimizers like tinyurl.com, urltea.com. However, now I see a lot of people using it on their regular webpages. This could [...]

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Washington DC’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will no longer allow citizens to protest parking tickets in person, reports Thenewspaper.com. Instead, they’ll offer mail-in and e-mail adjudication.
The move is intended to allow automated street sweeper parking ticket machines to boost the number of infractions cited well beyond the 1.6 million currently handed out by meter [...]

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God Bless Stephen Colbert.

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Bruce Schneier has written a stunning essay on the War on Terror, explaining how it has devolved into a “War on the Unexpected” — an arms-flapping hysterical world where every suspicion must be reported and investigated, and where every cop in the chain is encouraged to escalate every report. Governments are asking us to spy [...]

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