Suing the Grammys

We know the Blues and Jazz are getting short shrift in the mainstream miasma that is Popular Music today — Billboard.com can’t even be bothered to get proper album cover art for their Blues and Jazz charts! — and now we have breaking news that Latin Jazz musicians are suing the Grammy Awards! Continue reading → Suing the Grammys

Spam Crusader Dan Balsam

I’ve been getting spam for many years — as long as there has been easily accessible e-mail, there has been spam. What could be easier than writing up an e-mail, addressing it to hundreds of thousands of people, and hitting send? As e-mail programs and services get more clever and find ways to filter out junk e-mail, people become ever more crafty with how they write their spam so that the filters don’t trap it.

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Always Confess. Unless, of Course, You Should Lie!

If you do something wrong, confess.  Don’t prevaricate.  Don’t excuse.  Above all, don’t lie!  The truth forms you as a human being.

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New Orleans Discrimination Against Disabled Children

Is New Orleans a cursed city?  The Katrina Report suggested there is still a deep and lingering discrimination against the ultimate revival of that important, Southern, American, core.  Now we have reports from the field that disabled children are being discriminated against within the urban seawall.

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JK Rowling Wrongly Claims Harry Potter

JK Rowling — author of the Harry Potter books — is trying to quash
competition and publication of analysis in the form of an encyclopedia
dedicated to divining meaning in the series. Rowling feels Potter belongs to her and not the world. She is wrong.

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Hulk Hogan Gets Served for Thanksgiving

Two days before Thanksgiving, fantasy wrestler Hulk Hogan’s wife Linda
filed for divorce proving, once again, that’s the thanks the Hulk gets
for providing for all the needs of a family for over two decades.

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