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USATODAY.com - A life without left turns

A touching article about a guy’s memories of his father.

I should say I never saw him drive a car. He quit driving in 1927, when he was 25 years old, and the last car he drove was a 1926 Whippet.

“In those days,” he told me when he was in his 90s, “to drive a car you had to do things with your hands, and do things with your feet, and look every which way, and I decided you could walk through life and enjoy it or drive through life and miss it.”

The Fine Manual

Very good article that makes a lot of good points. This boils down to something my grandmother used to harp on: “If you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all.”

In other words, if you can’t help the person, then just be quiet. If you really care about free software, let’s keep the rude and condescending comments to ourselves and provide some thoughtful and useful help.

I wish the RTFM jerk crowd would just stick to hard distributions and operating systems like BSD, Gentoo and Slackware, and not waste time with abusing newbies trying to get things like Fedora and Ubuntu to work.

African-American Voters Scrubbed by Secret GOP Hit List Greg Palast

Yet another story breaks about the dishonesty of the current administration.

A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts.