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My City for a Decent Cable Company

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I’ve written before about how I went to private school with children of the family that runs Toledo’s local cable company, Buckeye Cablesystem. (The same family also owns our local paper, the Toledo Blade.) I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m hardly a fan of Buckeye, particularly when they were slow to add new channels I really wanted in the 1990s (Food Network, ZDTV, MuchMusic, Bravo), which was why I had DirecTV for a few years there. After the fire I didn’t bother…

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Lack of Enthusiasm

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Looking back at the past year, which was easily the most anemic ever in terms of how much I worked on the .org, it’s clear that I’ve lost enthusiasm for a lot of the political stuff I’ve been so interested in for so long. I entered the year eager to see how Obama would handle himself at the start of his presidency, and I have to admit that I let my hopes get up after his inauguration speech, when he delivered a pretty stinging rebuke…

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A Simple Solution

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AT&T; is latest to end Tiger Woods sponsorship (AP via Yahoo! News) As hard as I’ve tried to avoid the whole Tiger Woods thing these past few weeks, it’s kind of hard to do that, especially when seemingly everyone, everywhere, is talking about it. After all, it’s a perfect distraction from all that health care stuff, and who really cares if people go bankrupt or die because of our health care system if we can spend all our time talking about the umpteenth alleged Tiger…

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Enough.

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In retrospect, we should have expected that Democrats would wait until this time of year to buckle and cave in on public health care. They were probably figuring that once the Massachusetts ground had frozen up, no one could hear Ted Kennedy turning in his grave as the party that purported to lionize him and his family, once again, turned their backs on the social reforms that defined the Democratic party in the middle of the 20th century. Were I in a more humourous mood,…

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.journal update

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New in the .journal: .org.9: Seeking stability. As promised, a brief update about the past year, although given the chaos of the past two months, most of the focus is on that. As I say in the entry, the .org is probably going to continue to be neglected for the next month or so while I tend to other, more pressing issues. I promise that I will return to more regular updates here when my schedule allows, but given all that’s on my plate right…

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