Daily Archives: June 12, 2002

Sex talk

Posted on June 12, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

Charles Murtaugh answers the question that InstantMan asks and Den Beste fumbles, namely why is it that so many sex-advice columnists are female. Murtaugh groks the real reasons: The reason women succeed as sex columnists is because lustful guys like … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Thom Marshall admits he’s an idiot

Posted on June 12, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

The Chron‘s least useful columnist cops to laziness in a correction in today’s paper regarding his uncritical belief in the Valentine Foundation, which Houston Press readers knew is run by convicted grifter Whitney Broach. Thanks to Kevin for helping to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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One EggMcSpam to go, please

Posted on June 12, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

Mac points to this article about McDonald’s in Hawaii testing a breakfast meal that contains Spam. I sent this link to the RoundTable mailing list, and was promptly informed that this sort of regional adaptaion is quite common for McDonald’s. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Machiavellian Whores Online?

Posted on June 12, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

Avedon has a good conspiracy theory going today, in which the mysterious founder of Media Whores Online is in reality Jennifer Liberto. The hatchet job was done to throw everyone off the scent. Works for me! Continue reading →

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National Bloggerhood Week

Posted on June 12, 2002 by Charles Kuffner

Meryl gets in a musical mood over the NYT blogger rivalry article. Hmmm, maybe I can help here… National Bloggerhood Week, with sincere apologies to Tom Lehrer Oh, the war blogs hate the tech blogs And the tech blogs hate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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