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Never Use Lending Tree dot com

We are thinking of refinancing our mortgage. We, mistakenly, tried LendingTree dot com to try and get competitive bids from various brokers. The bids we have gotten are not very good (our Credit Union does just as well). The worst part, however, is the constant barrage of phone calls and emails that we have gotten [...]

Deaf, Dumb and Blind and I am not Talking about Tommy

I am not sure what exactly to say about this.

A Sad Day to be a Virginian

Today is a sad day to be a Virginian.

Voter Intimidation in Virginia

A potentially major story has been quietly bubbling over the past 48 hours. The story is that voters are being harassed/intimidated/told not to go to the polls all over the state of Virgina. Virginia is the site of a hotly contested battle of stupidity between the moronic incumbent George Allen (R) and challenger James Webb [...]

Voting

I am glad that my vote will count and that nothing can possibly go wrong.

Rainy Weekends

At least now I know that what I (and many others I am sure) have thought all along is in fact true. Namely that it rains more often on the weekends then weekdays. The reason is interesting, weekday pollution that builds up over the course of the week.

Tower Records RIP

I have spent more money at Tower Records than at any other record store. News that the winning bid in its bankruptcy auction is by a company that is going to shut down all of the stores, liquidate all of the inventory, and fire all of the employees is sad. This obituary from the Sacramento [...]

More Russian Roads

I just had to follow up on my previous post about Russian roads with this latest set of pictures of Russian roads, this time in Moscow!
Hat tip again to English Russia.

This is Just Crazy

Next time you complain about how bad the roads are around where you live, ponder this…

New Bird Species Discovered

A beatiful new bird, Bugun Liocichla, has been found in India.