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The Cost Of Cable TV

Posted in Complaints on August 11, 2008 | 20 Comments »

    
No I’m not endorsing the 2008 Torrent SUV (or whatever that car is), I’m demonstrating our crystal clear TV reception…with $17 rabbit ears from Radio Shack.
     I often rant about our cable company Time-Warner and how much I despise it. Buck feels the same way. We have the package that combines TV, telephone, [...]

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Wal-Mart As Bad Religion

Posted in Catholicism, Complaints, tagged on January 30, 2008 | 60 Comments »

 
Me: Could you repeat that?
Buck: I said, the shopping cart etiquette at Wal-Mart is so fucking out of control I just can’t begin to believe it.
Me: Really.
Buck: Really. Trying to push a shopping cart around Wal-Mart, just minding your own business, is impossible. The way people act . . . they think they’re Britney [...]

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Kitchen Appliances That Suck, Part 2

Posted in Complaints, tagged , on December 28, 2007 | 15 Comments »

 
Of all our toasters this wasn’t the worst but
it was far from acceptable.  It’s made by Toastmaster
and I got it at Homegoods for $12.99. It toasted the
bread ever-so-slightly on one side only. The other side
of the bread remained cold and raw. This toaster sucks.

At the very least, the array of coffee grinders [...]

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Kitchen Appliances That Suck, Part 1

Posted in Complaints, tagged , on December 27, 2007 | 20 Comments »

Our coffee maker isn’t terrible, but the grinder has given me an actual neurosis.

Today I finally settled on a name for this neurotic compulsion I have to hit the on-button on the coffee grinder every time I walk past it. I’m calling it a neurotic compulsion.
My motivation behind hitting the button four, maybe five [...]

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Where Have All The Aliens Gone?

Posted in Complaints, Shadow People, UFOs, tagged , , , on December 6, 2007 | 10 Comments »

Dear George Noory,
Where the hell are the aliens? The Shadow People? The cryptozoologists? The ghost hunters and remote viewers? The exorcists?
Let me say right up front that I love you and I truly mean you no disrespect here. But what was up with that “Taxation Special” you had Sunday night?
I didn’t like it.
I’m [...]

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NYT Editor Greg Brock Is My Homes

Posted in Complaints on October 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’m transcribing yesterday’s taped interview for Sunday Q&A. This is not it. While I’m doing that, I wanted to share with you my email from the NYT.
A couple of weeks ago I sent a letter to the Sunday New York Times pointing out the misinformation in a story about the State Lunatic Asylum at Danvers (Massachusetts), which [...]

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