After a pretty pleasant morning out this morning, I returned home to reports that Bernard Madoff, author of the biggest Ponzi investment scheme in history, may be about to reach a plea deal with his prosecutors. Madoff is responsible for total losses to charities, foundations, pension plans, and ind...

My archive pages are screwed up, big time. They’re tossing memory errors and other assorted uglies at me. But honestly, browsing the archives sucks anyway. I suggest using the Lijit widget on the right sidebar just next to the BlogHer ad. The benefit of using that widget instead of the search ...

UPDATE: I’m curious: Would you want your law enforcement officers to be writing stuff like this? It boggles the mind No matter what the Norwich Bulletin and Det. Mark Lounsbury would like to believe, Julie Amero is innocent. I really shouldn’t have to write this. AGAIN. But it seems that...

Note: I published this on June 6, 2007, after Julie’s conviction was overturned. At the request of her lawyers, I pulled it back from public view. Now that she has paid her pound of flesh and yet the noble Lounsbury seems to want to continue to harass her, I am making it public once again, whe...

If you’ve followed the Julie Amero saga, don’t miss Good Morning America tomorrow, January 27th. Julie, Alex, and other key players in the case were interviewed for airing tomorrow morning. Lest you think Julie’s story is old news, it’s not, nor is all sweetness and light now...

Here’s something that’s guaranteed to trigger a blog rant from me: pipe in short URLs on Twitter that lead to graphic anti-abortion videos with an invitation to private message reactions via Twitter. The message seems to be that it’s okay to trick people into viewing biased and inf...

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to run our schools and our factories… And that, ladies and gentlemen, is VISION. We must pick ourselves up, dust off, and remake America. …will restore our place in Global responsibility Healthcare baby Healthcare! Yeah baby Please, Amer...

Back in the days when you were little and you got hurt because of a bad choice you made, I would pick you up, dust you off, and dry the tears with the admonition that you’d know not to do it next time. Usually, you did know not to do it. When you were 16 and came home roaring drunk, I dumped a...

TweepleBlogger David Wilson cast the gauntlet at my feet earlier today. After writing an extremely kind profile of me and this humble blog, he challenged me to post my professional goals for 2009 and then pass the baton to someone else. Have you ever had one of those moments when something so simple...

Again, rising to Steve Gillmor’s challenge… Today’s WebSpat involves my friends over on the Gillmor Gang, who spent the better part of an hour castigating Robert Scoble for not writing long, thoughtful blog posts. Thank God he doesn’t. My brain can’t handle too many lon...