Question: Why do spammers keep trying?
I get automated comment spam to the blogs I write and manage. (Reminder: Add a personal validation system to comment submission.)
Like everyone, I still get lots of spam email. I get the occasional spam phone call, even though I joined do not call. But, I’m not obsessive enough to catalog [...]
Cumulative pay increases since 1999: 29%.
Cumulative inflation since 1999: 44%.
Cumulative increase in employment-based health care premiums: 144% 120%
Source: American Benefits Council.
Since 1999 your health care premiums have risen at a rate five more than four times times faster than your pay, leaving you sinking against inflation. And, remember, inflation has been fairly benign since 1999. [...]
We watched Walter Cronkite.
Walter’s most searing moment in history came when he directly challenged the Pentagon and the Johnson administration over Vietnam. Yet, as Glenn Greenwald writes, much of the discussion of Cronkite will miss a key and pointed criticism over the state of journalism today.
We read or hear that Cronkite called the Vietnam War [...]
Spam comments keep landing here in Russian. Wonder if Sarah Palin could take a look outside and see who’s doing this?
One way to avoid being a lame duck, Sarah, is simply not to have proclaimed yourself one by announcing your intent not to run again. Sometimes, influence is gained by keeping people guessing.
But, having said that, well, good riddance.
