On my 10th US Independence Day abroad, I’ll walk across our meadow to where the UK’s Severn River meets the Irish Sea and toss in the contents of a tea bag to celebrate. US holidays abroad are a bit strange. It’s Friday here. No hours-long parades, political speeches, fireworks, over-stuffing myself at cookouts or other […]

When will the Dems learn to that bringing a knife to gun fight is not very smart? When will they learn to play the refs better (the media) for the free ride John McCain continues to get whilst Obama supports the FISA bill only to catch the corporate thieves in criminal liability when elected and […]

Last year’s writer’s strike saw a shortened television season, cost $2.5 billion dollars (according to the LA Economic Development Corp.) and multiple Hollywood projects were placed on hold for four months over web residual payments to writers. The quality of television programming sank further as studios overloaded with so-called “reality” programming and 22-24 week seasons […]

Olbermann said it first. More than a bad pun, the Democratic Unity, New Hampshire photo-op happened yesterday. Newshounds desperate for a story angle spoke of backstage tensions between their handlers or jumped briefly on trivial Republican, Grover Norquist’s “he’s Kerry with a tan” racist comment, until they saw who said it. To listen to pundits […]

North Korea lost Axis of Evil membership yesterday for producing a paper list in exchange for a sweetheart deal for jet fuel and yet still… refine Uranium. George Bush stood on the floor of the Israeli Knesset last month playing an obscene partisan game invoking Holocaust imagery while denouncing Barack Obama as an “appeaser” for […]

There was a time when those selected to sit upon the US Supreme Court would vote 9-0 to affirm the document upon which their position was formed as one of three equal parts of the US government. The UK court system was also paralysed yesterday when Law Lords ruled against the use of anonymous witnesses […]

165,000% inflation, 80% unemployment and a now brutally silenced cry for change does nothing to stop the lunacy that is the presidency/dictatorship of Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has withdrawn from the Presidential run-off election scheduled for this coming weekend because government back militia gangs continue to terrorise and kill his supporters. […]

Las Vegas is halfway through hosting the world’s longest and largest poker tournament, the six-week long, 2008 World Series of Poker. This week the Main Event begins, which should pay the winner between $8-$10 million dollars. That person though must outlast 8-10,000 other players each of whom paid $10,000 for the right to play over […]

The Consumerist website showed this graphic recently about poor service received by Comcast Cable and telephone subscribers across the USA. It was part of an internally circulated Powerpoint presentation by a call centre manager on their CQE (Customer Quality Experience) programme and the lack of seriousness with which it is taken inside the company culture.
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