Electric Josh

The News
In Suffering News Burnout? The Rest of America Is, Too, the Times warns, ominously, probably unwittingly, that,

The total evening news audience on the broadcast networks has been lower this summer than it was during the summer of 2001, when the pressing stories of the day were shark attacks and Chandra A. Levy.

It works
So spam works. What do you know?

An order log left exposed at one of Amazing Internet Products' websites revealed that, over a four-week period, some 6,000 people responded to spam and placed orders for the company's Pinacle herbal supplement--a supplement to, you guessed it, make your penis larger. Most customers ordered two bottles of the pills at a price of $50 per bottle.

free network!
The Globe talks (from single-source research, and in grasping, buzzwordy fashion) about Boston (okay, Davis Square in Somerville, but it is on the Red Line) getting wired up with no-cost WiFi hotspots. How hard could it possibly be to people on board with such a plan in Boston of all places?
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Chuck
Why has nobody made one of a whole family of jokes involving Liberian Thug-In-Chief Charles Taylor and the basketball shoe named for him. Thousands of professional comedians. Both are in the news. Maybe Jon Stewart did so when I wasn't looking. Alas.
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