The favorite son of my hometown (Winsted, CT), announced his candidacy for the Presidency yesterday on Meet the Press. Ralph Nader has generally been embraced by his mostly liberal blue-collar hometown. Even those who disagree with his politics and tactics tend to acknowledge his impact on the consumer protection laws and the environment. But Nader’s Sunday morning chat show appearance was kind of sad. I’
Here’s an Email I sent to the Human Rights Campaign, in its entirety. It speaks for itself: I am writing to express my concern for your most recent marketing ploy, the affinity credit card that bears both the HRC logo and Visa logo. I have received a couple of offers in the mail for this product, and I am quite disturbed that HRC would choose to align itself with a credit card company, especially one as predato
Telecom giant SBC has a product that they’re hawking called “SBC Unified Communications.” In theory, it sounds like a convenient technology — all your voice mail from all your phones in a single account, which you can play back from any phone (residential land line or Cingular cell phone) or from a browser based mailbox. Plus you can receive faxes in the mailbox, too, and print them out. Sound
OK. So I get this Email from Stamps.com about my account: We are writing to inform you about an important change to your Stamps.com service plan. We are in the process of discontinuing our Simple Plan. Customers currently using the Simple Planâ„¢ will be automatically moved to the Power Plan. This change in your service will be effective Thursday, March 24, 2005. The new monthly service fee for your Power Plan accoun
