Recently readHalf the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don’t mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
To think well of themselves.
-TS Eliot, The Cocktail Party
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(I know, it’s from yesterday.)
Some days, the web feels like 5 people trying to make something; 5k people turning it into a list; and 500MM people saying, “FAIL.”
-Merlin Mann, my favorite Twitterer whom I’ve never met in person
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I am stunned at what Amy Alkon seems to have discovered in her investigation of Bank of America. She buries the bombshell in a necessarily detailed post, but it’s a big one: California customers’ records do not seem to be included in BofA’s national database. If this is true, then it means BofA in California […]
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John + me
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Or, at least easier, thanks to the help of my “little” brother.
I have shifted a lot, but still have a bunch of furniture I want to sell in the next couple of days. Details and photos are here. Get in touch if you want to come have a look.
Many […]
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Bob told me that he was on Fountain Square on Friday night when a guy called out to him: “Hey, Schwartz!” (Bob gets a lot of that, because his blog is so widely read in Cincinnati.) They had a pleasant chat and the guy said to him, “So Jackie’s coming in this weekend, right?” Bob […]
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This post from my friend Michael Jennings is detailed but important - and, sad to say, not entirely shocking to me. I never applied for a UK passport precisely because I could imagine nothing more harrowing than going through this rigmarole. (The years-long process of applying and waiting for a visa was nightmarish enough.) Michael […]
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I am appalled by my friend Amy Alkon’s experience of not only having her account cleaned out by an identity thief, but of how easy Bank of America made it for the fraud to take place AND the fact that THEY are firing HER as a customer for not just taking “Screw you, we won’t […]
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Reunited!
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I have four good reasons to be glad to be back in Cincinnati for the week. Can’t say how happy I was to see them all on Saturday night.
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Me
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KARRI: Wow, dinner at Bob Evans* and a trip to Wal-Mart. I’m quickly becoming your skanky friend.
ME: Don’t say that! You’ve ALWAYS been my skanky friend.
She totally isn’t, of course. That said, Karri did talk me into buying a t-shirt from Wal-Mart, which was a first. But she got one, too. […]
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The British government is imploding! Hurrah! Do we have Tony Blair to thank? Brian thinks we may:
It’s almost as if Blair wanted the Labour Party to implode, “apres moi”. He made the one promise that he must have known that a Brown-lead Labour Party would not then keep, and left them to destroy themselves, with […]
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I will be speaking on a panel at this event, from the same producers who bring you the Consumer Electronics Show, on August 5. The roster of speakers is quite something, which I guess is what you can pull together when you’re the guys who do CES. Anyway, let me know if you’re going to […]
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I’m flying across the country today to finally move out of my apartment. I can’t even begin to tell you how stressed I’ve been to have a second home thousands of miles away, full of my stuff. (As in, I was having dreams that I’d forgotten to move out of not one but two other […]
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As much as I loathe politicians, even I can scarcely believe what a wreck these evil shits are making of this country. Brace yourselves, people: Their latest power grab is going to make things a whole hell of a lot worse.
The GSEs got into an enormous mess because their special status allowed them to […]
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Congressman @johnculberson:
If you like the way FEMA handled Katrina you will love the way the fed gov’t handles home loans and remodeling.
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