RFK, Jr.'s sloppy research isn't offset by Manjoo's sloppy rebuttal.

One need not outright "steal" an election. As has been shown, one need only make life difficult, annoying, even a little punishing to supress voter turnout. I'm sure there was malice in Ohio but also the usual run of stupidity that helped supress the Kerry vote. That was helped by the less than stirring Kerry campaign.

It's too bad that Salon didn't think through the flaws in Kennedy's reporting skills before it sponsored, along with the Rolling Stone, the autisim "investigation" he produced.

iT's not insanely great?? Could this be a small ebb in the adulation of all things Jobsian?? Merely amazing will have to do, I guess.

Having had the experience of trucking around with offspring finding a college, I can wish you only good luck.

OTOH, on your return you're going to have to remind me why I subscribe to Salon.

BRK

crApple is acting like a corporation trying to maximize profit (in a ham handed way) and it's devotees, like Farhad, are shocked, shocked at it's behavior. It just shows you how effective the advertising has been.

Recommendation: welcome to capitalism. Instead of seeking the insanely great, look for what works and switch when it doesn't. Every corporation is out there is looking for your buck, loyalty is an added extra to the profit margin.

iPhone, iPod, iDiots.

Found this via Google:

http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/archives/week_2005_06_19.html

RE: HOODWINKED?

An at-least-one-time-divorced FrontBurnervian has had his own experiences in front of the Collin County judge:

Twenty-two years ago when I got divorced from first wife, Verna Sue Holland was the presiding judge. After I got my clock cleaned in the settlement, my lawyer, Jim Somebody, said as we were leaving the courthouse, "BTW, I should have let you know that Judge Holland is my sister-in-law and I am in an ugly custody battle with her sister (his wife), but I'm sure it had no bearing on the settlement."