A Wing and a Prayer: Archive

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Mar 14th

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Lawyer's Unemployment Benefits Yanked Over $1 A...

Does writing a blog constitute work? That appears to be the position of the New York State Department of Labor, which recently declared a laid-off attorney ineligible for unemployment benefits because she was bringing in $1.30 a day from blog ads.

Oct 7th

Facebook poll on Obama 'assassination' probed

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33060855/

Sep 29th

Pants on Fire

In early America, calling someone a liar wasn’t a childish insult but a direct challenge to one’s honor, an appropriate response to which varied by region. Where dueling was common — as in Wilson’s home state of South Carolina — so were insults. Here’s how an 1882 New York Times article described the thinking of the time as it related to a Mr. John Goode, who...

Sep 17th

Sep 15th

Multitasking

Read it and gloat. Researchers at Stanford University have just published a study showing that the most persistent multitaskers perform badly in a variety of tasks. They don’t focus as well as nonmultitaskers. They’re more distractible. They’re weaker at shifting from one task to another and at organizing information. They are, as a matter of fact, worse at multitasking than people who don’ t...

Sep 6th

Health dept. sickened by own Christmas party

Health dept. sickened by own Christmas party Some health department workers in southern Illinois think they may have discovered some contaminated food - at their own office Christmas gathering. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28355874/

Dec 23rd

Gadgets that make you look like a jerk

Sometimes tech makes you appear hip, assertive and dynamic, it can just as easily make you look like an utter pain. So, before you rush out to buy Apple’s new laptop or BlackBerry’s new Storm, check out these high profile gadgets you might look cooler without. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28039226/

Dec 14th

Pig-out

About this time last night, I embarked on a sacred campaign to eat every Christmas cookie and every Christmas brownie in the house before the Fam. arrives for Christmas. I’ll be done around this time tomorrow night.

Dec 12th

Nov 28th

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