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Lame: SEC Is Set to Issue Temporary Ban Against Short Selling

18 September 2008

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According to the Wall St. Journal, the ban will be on ANY shorting of stocks, not naked shorting.  Crazy. Lame. Dog lame.   When financial companies were using shorts to drive high tech companies out of business, it was the “free market at work. ” Now that the financial companies are being hurt by shorts, [...]

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Too Much Olympic Beach Bikini Volleyball

23 August 2008

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From not just NBC ("Nothing But Commercials"), but also the usually far superior CBUT Canadian broadcast. Are men’s beach volleyball or traditional indoor gym volleyball Olympic events?

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Lame: A Sleep-Over at the Airport

13 August 2008

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Stranded by a management-union dispute, my family had a sleep over in the airport as a result of United AIrlines pilots "sick out " canceling our flight.  Pilots were calling in sick in "retaliation to the airline’s plan to reduce its fleet size and furlough pilots" according to Aviation Week . The pilots may think [...]

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Come to Belltown, Get your Bell Rung

9 August 2008

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The lawlessness continues in Belltown in another article about troubles in Belltown, a neighborhood of downtown Seattle. The final sentence is the best part: All this in a part of town with million-dollar condos, foie gras and a brand new motto: "Come to Belltown, Get your bell rung."

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Lame: Wine Switcheroo

9 August 2008

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A bit of lame trickery in the wine business. I bought 6 bottles of Pepperwood Grove Pinot Noir . Opened one bottle. Yuck. Thin, watery, simple. Tasted odd. Notes of fingernail polish.  Not good and certainly not tasting like a Pinot. Checked the bottles. In very small print, the labels reveal that 2 of the [...]

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Lame: Belltown Open-Air Drug Market Continues

29 July 2008

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Excepts from an excellent article in a Seattle newspaper about neighborhood in downtown Seattle that could be absolutely wonderful. I used to live there and can say that the author is spot on about the total lameness of the situation. Hopefully articles like this one get the city’s attention. It’s no secret – Second and [...]

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Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil Flakes! Oh, My!

27 April 2008

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I love the comics. Using humor about lame hydrogenated oils (as well as the crap that is passed off as food) beats my rants.

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New Page: Hydrogenated Oils Wall of Shame

17 April 2008

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I started a "Hydgrogenated Oils Wall of Shame " as a permanent page for products that contain hydrogenated oils and that are especially appealing to my 4-year old. This will be an ongoing effort that I’ll update because every trip to the grocery store seems to turn up another wall of shame product. My inspiration [...]

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Lame: “Can You Fix My Computer?”

14 April 2008

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I’ve stopped telling people that I’m in software. Inevitably, I’m asked stupid questions such as how to work some lame feature in Microsoft Office (I’m an OpenOffice guy), or something about Windows, or what computer to buy, or the very worst, something along the lines of: Him: “My computer is running really slow lately. What [...]

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Lame: Sleazy Computer Sales People Taking Advantage

10 April 2008

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From a reader who is a computer professional: Totally lame: the sleazy sales guy at Best Buy who took advantage of my 70-year old mother who came in to look at computers. She said she likes to play computer games so you sold her an expensive, souped-up gamer machine and told her that she had [...]

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