Public revolts, Amazon repents

Monday, April 13th, 2009

After the giant outburst this weekend over Amazon’s arbitrary removal of GLBTQ materials from the sales ranking with the reasoning that they were “adult” oriented, the retail giant repented.  They said it was a “glitch”, even though they knew and were TELLING people as of February 2009 that they were doing it.  WTF people? So, [...]

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(One image NSFW) Just when it was time to start trusting Amazon again

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

I have to admit it.  Amazon.com has gotten “sexy”.  They have the new Kindle, and have even gotten me to come back as a customer after five years.  They did some things a few years back that really ticked me off, and I left them for BUY.com and other places. But today, I think I’m [...]

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Palin and the librarian scandal

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Okay, so sometimes satellite radio is more useful than 24 hour trance music…  This morning as I drove into the office and was listening to XM’s POTUS08, they had a guy from PolitiFact.com on to talk about some of Palin’s issues.  The issue that I am most interested about was the librarian scandal, because banning [...]

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