Tag: World War II
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Self-Image, Coffee is for Closers, An Economic Last Stand, Whiskey Lies, and Other Things
The big non-shock in the feed today is that every level of Comcast is all about sales. This hot on the heels of an 8+ minute recording of someone trying to cancel their cable service. All that sales, of course, came at the cost of actual customer service–something cable companies are notoriously bad at to…
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Lots of Oddities, Some Real Stupidity, A Bit of Humor, and the Blackest Black
Apparently, the push yesterday to let the FCC know how we think they should rule on Net Neutrality once again crashed their website. So much so that at least one of the groups that was facilitating the electronic submissions just up and printed out the messages that didn’t get through and hand delivered them so…
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Discrimination, Diversity, Voices and Images From Beyond, Living Above Venus, and the Impeccable Bad Piper
This came through the feed late today: “Without a robust religious exemption,” they wrote, “this expansion of hiring rights will come at an unreasonable cost to the common good, national unity and religious freedom.” That’s the justification, in part, for a group of businesses (who claim to be religious) for asking that they be exempt…