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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

2 years 7 months ago
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about the Republican attempt to legislate against spam filtering of political emails: Nothing new See: The exemption that gave themselves around Texting unsolicited political spam. In second place, it’s another anonymous comment in response to a certain prolific commenter: Hyman has […]
Leigh Beadon

Our apartment in Paris

2 years 7 months ago
I forgot to show you the apartment we stayed at in Paris. Here it is: The top picture shows the street we were on. At the far end among the greenery—about a two-minute walk—is Madeleine, and a short turn to the left leads to the metro station. The bottom picture shows the inner courtyard. The ...continue reading "Our apartment in Paris"
Kevin Drum

A Firefighter's Thoughts On Father’s Day  

2 years 7 months ago
ALTON - Alton Fire Department Battalion Chief Derrick Richardson expressed some thoughts in regard to firefighters who are also fathers and grandparents today for Father's Day. These were Derrick's comments: "Most of us in the fire service are parents and grandparents. We choose the fire service because we want to help others, and provide a good life for our family while doing the job we love. We risk our lives to make someone else’s day better. As I like to say, “We risk our lives to make a person’s day better than the moment they needed us”. Derrick continued: "The community appreciates us, and our families appreciate us even more as husbands, fathers, and grandfathers who risk our lives to help others. We treat people, we rescue people, we save people, and we save savable property, and then go home to be with our families. I don’t like to think about how it would affect our families if we didn’t come home one day, but I know our families support

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