Army Recruiters Accused of Misleading Students to Get Them to Enlist

Scroll down Talking Points Memo for a bit, check out the rash of posts about misleading automated calls in close districts. Check out the political signage down in Houston. And fake voter information guides in California.

Now here's Keith Olbermann laying the smackdown on the ( Read more... )

So, the news blurb "please watch us after Boston Legal, pleasepleaseplease" said a number of things I wasn't paying attention to, and then the lady said, "*gasp* Cows with E. Coli?? More at 10!"

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E. coli exists naturally in the bovine gut, you ignorant fear-mongering fools.

Online music holdouts give in to iTunes

This, by the way, is what did it (emphasis mine):

Since record companies have realized the popularity of iTunes and other sites, many reworked contracts to give artists less money per download. Andrews said while record companies once offered artists about 30 cents for each song sold, now musicians are ( Read more... )

For the second time in three days, CNN featured a segment on the potential coming of the Apocalypse, as indicated by current conflicts in the Middle East.

Oh, for fuck's sake. Note the reference to the bog psalms and Psalm 83? Despite the National Museum of Ireland clarifying which passage the book was actually open to (more details from National ( Read more... )

Tuesday morning's email to MySpace, with "account confirmation" message included as a text forward:

I did not create this account. I did not click to confirm this account. As of this morning, however, I have four add requests and three personal message notifications sitting in my email ( Read more... )

I'm ready to tear my hair out. Seventeen more notifications overnight.
Sixteen since I left the house this morning.

If anyone's trying to get hold of me by personal email, try the gmail
account. My main account is practically useless until I get someone,
somewhere to straighten this shit out ( Read more... )

Dear fic authors:

Overriding the community style to post your stories in reallyreallytiny text does not make you special. It does, however, make me skip your fic. If style=mine doesn't let me dodge the eyestrain, I ain't reading.

No love,
me

Dear MySpace:

Twelve more notification emails. Zero actual contact from site maintainers. I wonder how ( Read more... )

I don't have a MySpace account. I don't want a MySpace account. The email message is unsolicited, I did not "click to confirm" account creation, so WHY THE BLOODY FUCK IS MY EMAIL IN BOX FULL OF ADD REQUESTS AND MESSAGES?

Oh my god this bitch is going down.

[As found on This Modern
World and Unclaimed
TerritoryOkay so, maybe if you were out of town last weekend (like me), you ( Read more... )

Via trollprincess, Henry Rollins reads a letter to Ann Coulter. (Has sound and cussing, therefore exercise judgment re: workplaces.)

Day = MADE. *pumps fist*