Day 11 without an agreement.  Raycom has said
DirecTV has refused Raycom’s offer to enter into a contract that would allow continued carriage of this station through June, 2014.  Raycom and DirecTV continue negotiations for carriage rights of this station on the DirecTV service.
DirectTV believes it has a valid agreement in place already, [...]

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As an entrepreneur and long time Internet enthusiast, I know that innovation sometimes comes from the strangest places.  Frequently though, the innovation comes from students who are the best and brightest of other countries, [...]

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Well, it actually comes from NPR, but it’s still pretty good, not to mention factual.  See the Hayek vs Keynes Rap Video, featured on the Freakonomics blog at the NY Times.

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I wasn’t aware that Tampa Bay was a hotbed of UFO activity, but they’re reporting that an unknown object, approximately 33-50 feet wide, will come within 80,000 files of the Earth around 7:47 am EST Wednesday 1/14/2010. Hopefully somebody will figure out what it is and that it is friendly.

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A couple kissing through surgical masks…

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This story has two attractions for me.  The headline was enough for me to get my dumb-ass pen going, but the real question for me was simply this:  What is a “hooning offence”?

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Can you give me and my gun a ride to Washington, DC?
A brilliant taxi driver knew the answer, which WTF? No! So the taxi driver drops him off at the train station and calls police instead.
I can just hear the 911 call now:
911: “What is the nature of your emergency?”
Taxi driver: “Some dude with a [...]

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[Updated 11/13/2008 from another news article]
Sometimes the pictures make the news by themselves.  Alcohol-related just jumps to mind before we even know any other details.
There is not much to do in Idaho sometimes.  Brutsche-Ely (the name speaks volumes too) evidently had about a dozen too many drinks.  She tried to hit a security guard.  Finding [...]

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Few and far between are the dumbasses that just leave me floored.  This one is a real head-fake.
First, the background.  van Tassel, former US Army Iraq veteran, dons a ski mask, grabs a nearby American flag, and a handgun.  His plan?!  To protest something from a bridge in Santa Barbara, CA.  He obviously has his [...]

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This Naugatuck man is a dumbass of the day wannabe.  This Yahoo article tells us of a man who fired a shotgun at a gas pump while people were standing around.  Fortunately, it didn’t explode.  Frustrated as his dismal failure, he drove off and promptly struck two cars.  2 cars!
Too bad that Darwin didn’t prevail.  [...]

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