Some áššhølë took over my computer last night.
To be more specific, some áššhølë wrote some software and published it on the object.passthison.com subdomain which then took over my computer. While Googling for some information for some fellow notaries public, I ran across a notary website that displayed the ad that the bûtthëád created. Despite the [...]
“Rebate promotion may increase price of bed.”
That’s contained within the fine print at the bottom of the screen during the commercial for a Craftmatic adjustable bed. The way the deal is presented is that you, the consumer, calls a toll-free number to get some information pack about the bed. In the packet is a $200 [...]
During my annual review of every finite detail of all my accounts (banking, credit, and retirement included), I found something I thought odd — I had a balance on my business Citibank card account, even though I expected to see a zero balance.
The entire balance from the July 18 statement was paid in full, received, [...]
I’ve been trying for a couple of years to get one of my 401(k) accounts rolled over to one of my other retirement accounts. Granted, I haven’t been trying all that hard, because it’s not a terribly difficult process. I just hate dealing with paperwork and bureaucracies.
Most of my efforts have been concentrated on the [...]
I hate telemarketers, as a reader would already know. Recorded political ads are just as bad. This weekend, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Arnold, and Barbra Streisand all called my home phone to convince me to vote one way or another. Not that I listened to them at all anyway. More often than not, I regard [...]
When I was an elementary and high school student, I hated history. I couldn’t imagine how anything that occured before I was born had any relevance in my life. The American Civil War bored me. The lives of Marie Antoinette, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln interested me even less. Despite their concerted efforts, nothing any [...]
I saw a commercial just a few minutes ago. It attempted to introduce a new verb to the American-English language: swiffering. It made me think of all the other recent new words and phrases, and new meanings and connotations that have been added over the last few years, some even sooner than that (in no [...]
A 29-year-old television producer named Karyn Bosnak received more than $13,000 in aid from hundreds of charitable donors, the result of her pioneering efforts in Internet panhandling.
In her case, the recent end of the financial boom hadn’t quite hit. Her transition from Chicago to New York to take a new job on a courtroom reality [...]
In April, the advocacy group Last Chance for Animals (LCA) filed a complaint with the California Attorney General’s Office against the California Milk Advisory Board, the group responsible for the “Happy Cow” commercials. The ads feature healthy, cheerful cows who enjoy plenty of green grass, sunlight, and space, along with the slogan: “Happy cows make [...]
First of all, if you’re a telemarketer, don’t call me, because you will merely be wasting your own time and money. I don’t patronize companies that leave flyers on the windshield of my car, leave them on my doorstep, fax them to me at home or work, and I certainly won’t buy anything over the [...]
