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Seeing as I’m currently getting sucked down a bit of a YouTube hole over here, have a couple of Lewis Black videos. Even though they pay less money for it than we do, sometimes it’s nice to be reminded that Americans have to deal with the same sorts of shitty corporations if they want phone …
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Oh United, will you never learn? A United passenger with cerebral palsy was forced to crawl from his airplane to the gate when the airline’s staff took away a special wheelchair needed for just such a case, reports the Los Angeles Times. D’Arcee Neal was on a flight from San Francisco and urgently needed to …
The New York Daily News recently caught up with the family of Jdimytai Damour, the Walmart worker who was killed in a literal doorbuster back in 2008. Not only do they talk about how much they miss him, but the story then goes on to detail once again just how terrible the people who run …
Yes, we’ve linked to Daily Mail articles in the past and yes, we’re more than likely going to link to them in the future. But there’s a reason why you see a lot less of them here than you used to. That reason, quite simply, is that if you spend any time with the news, …
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We like Uber. We’ve mentioned that once or twice. But when somebody needs hell we’re going to give it to them, and I think Uber needs a little right now. They’re doing a nice thing, in theory. On election day (October 19th, 2015), they’re offering free rides to and from polling stations up to $15 …
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Family forced to sit in vomit on United flight No, that’s not some headline writer editorializing on the state of airplane food. Literally, these people had to go all butts in the barf seat because nobody from the crew bothered to clean things up between flights. Yes, I said between flights. So it’s not even …
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I think we all know this experience. You pick up the phone, say hello, and a second later, you get blasted by the sound of a boat horn. Then a voice says you’ve won a cruise and all you have to do is do a survey…at which point, hopefully you hang up because you think …
Regardless of what some of my posts may suggest, I try very hard not to think of every marketing person as a complete idiot tool just because he’s in the ad business. I do this in spite of the fact that many in the herd make it very, very difficult. Take the geniuses at the …
Bell is a lot of things, many of them not overly positive. One of those things, and you can take this however you’d like, is consistent. Today, I finally did it. I cancelled our Bell service. It’s been a long time coming, much longer than the date on this post would suggest. It feels pretty …
When this news broke in November, we were right smack in the middle of one of the worst parts of Carin’s illness so I completely missed it. But it’s just as important now as it was then, so better late than never as we say far too often around here. If, as we are, you’re …