As you’ve probably guessed, dear robots and spiders and lurkers (oh my)… we’re home. We pulled into the driveway at about 430pm today, after putting a little over 3800 miles on the nice Silver Beast we rented. David did all the driving and deserves about a month of back rubs. And more. Our last wild-ass guess on pictures uploaded: approximately 1.3 GIG of images. I’ll be doing a lot of re-sizing of the ones I already used in posts – I didn’t have a lot of time to fool with them, but they will be a more manageable size soon.…
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The Highland Park couple that founded the precursor to Air America Radio before selling most of it to a group of investors are in negotiations to gain control of the troubled liberal talk network, sources said Thursday. Sources familiar with the negotiations said Sheldon and Anita Drobny want to buy–with the aid of at least one major new investor–a majority stake in the company. I wasn’t able to listen to AAR much on the trip, and now it’s the weekend so I have to wait until Monday to hear “Majority Report.”
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FARGO, N.D. – A man who said he was fed up with his cellular phone service went to a Fargo mall and started hurling phones across a store, striking an employee and causing more than $2,000 in damage, authorities said. Guess he was really fed up with the annoying banner ads. I know I am, because it bugs the hell out of me when I get Mfop2to work but Verizon adds an annoying 2 line ad with extra spaces that reads: This message was sent using Picture Messaging from Verizon Wireless! To learn how you can snap and send pictures…
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Just four months after an alliance of conservative Christians was threatening a churchgoer revolt unless President Bush championed an amendment banning same-sex marriage, members say they have been surprised and disappointed by what they call a tepid response from the pews. Most of the groups supporting the proposed federal constitutional amendment concede that it appears all but dead in Congress for this election year. As Massachusetts prepares to become the first state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage on Monday, several high-profile conservatives say they are now pinning their hopes mainly on reaction to events there, betting that scenes…