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Entries for July 16th, 2003

Shhhh! No Talking!

Kevin is fast becoming one of my favorite bloggers to read. He has a good post today of an internal memo from ebay instructing their employees not to talk. As he notes, that wouldn’t prohibit blogging. Maybe we should be on the lookout for the “Mute Ebay Employees Blog”, coming soon to a web browser near you.

AOL Blogs: First Case Study

James has been linked by an AOL blog. If you want to check out this site here it is: Akablog Beta.

When Can We Come Home?

Skippy has a good summary of the different news reports out today on disgruntled troops who were expecting to come home. They deserve to get answers. The statements from the administration that “the troops know why they are there,” is becoming thinner by the day.

Let’s Go to the Tote Board

You’ll see a lot of articles today on the release of 2nd quarter fund-raising by presidential candidates. Here are the tallies of cash-on-hand for the end of the 2nd quarter:
Pres. Bush $32.3M

Sen. John Kerry 10.9M
Sen. John Edwards 8.1M
Ex-VT Gov. Howard Dean 6.4M
Rep. Dick Gephardt 6.3M
Sen. Joe Lieberman 4.0M
Sen. Bob Graham 1.8M
Rep. Dennis Kucinich 1.1M
Ex-IL Sen. Carol Moseley Braun 22K
Rev. Al Sharpton 12K

We’re Number 1

Alabama’s number one again: Alabama woman claims dubious distinction as world’s worst writer.

UPDATE: Evidently there is some descrepancy about this award winner’s sex: Alabama Man Wins SJ Worst Writing Contest. Although the story does note he is the “wife” of an Air Force retiree.