Archive for February 3rd, 2007

The Heavy-Handed Rhetoric of Stupidity

The Twin Cities Indymedia website is always good for a few laughs, and they have again come thru with another installment of the self-righteous comedy they do so well.

The latest installment concerns a possibly apocryphal “demand” by the FBI, who supposedly requested that the Twin Cities IMC remove two posts from their site.
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Human Spirit

I recently came across an uncommon reminder of my past life as a corporate wage-slave working for a very large, very evil chain of bookstores. In the better part of a decade I spent doing that, I learned a lot about the reading tastes of the American public, but also something inexplicable about human spirit.
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