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• Greyhound travel: The imperfect lover. Reality, the Twilight Zone and being jilted

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , Business , Blogs , Stories , United States , Budget Travel , News , Consumer Activism Im fond of Greyhound bus travel. I like the idea of humanity rolling along on a highway. I like bus people. As one bus ticket seller once told me at the station in Columbus, Ohio as she ...
  2 days ago

• Bowermasters Adventures -- Live from Antartica: part 5

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Activism , Stories , Antarctica , Ecotourism , Consumer Activism I spent part of this early Antarctic morning on the back deck of the ship reading a summary of the past eleven days events in Copenhagen, a long story downloaded at very slow rate from the New York Times. Between readings I looked ...
  2 days ago

• Bowermasters Adventures -- Live from Antartica: part 4

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Photos , Stories , Antarctica , Ecotourism , Consumer Activism WHITE THUNDER, NEKO HARBOUR, ANTARCTICA, DAY 4 Sitting atop a bared brown rock on top of a thousand-foot hill looking out over a relatively ice-free harbor - Neko, one of the most beautiful along the Peninsula, though even as I ...
  3 days ago

• New scam: pay a usurious fee to get your rebate faster

  
  Something better to do — Authority: 414
  I’ve just encountered a new (at least for me) scam in the ongoing quest by retailers and manufacturers to make rebates more and more onerous to apply for and therefore less likely to cost them any money. While applying on-line for a $10 rebate on an ASUS motherboard I purchased recently at Micro Center, I was ...
  4 days ago

• Washington DC to become gay marriage destination

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , North America , United States , Hotels and Accommodations , Nightlife , Consumer Activism A new bill passed by the Washington, D.C. city council is already getting the hotel community excited over the possibilities. When Mayor Adrian Fenty signs it into law, gay marriage ...
  4 days ago

• Bowermasters Adventures -- Live from Antartica: part 3

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Stories , Antarctica , Ecotourism , Consumer Activism Tabular Heaven, Antarctica, Day 3 Every place along the Antarctic Peninsula tends to be my favorite. Bailey Head. Neko Harbor. Paradise Bay. Cuverville. The Lemaire Channel. The Grand Didier Channel. Crystal Sound. The Fish Island Group. ...
  6 days ago

• Who pays for rescue efforts when people are lost? Who should?

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Climbing , Hiking , United States , News , Consumer Activism A few days ago, Kraig wrote about the three hikers lost on Mt. Hood. At the time of his post, one of the hikers had been found dead. The other two were still missing. Almost a week after they set out on their climb, they are still ...
  1 week ago

• Bowermasters Adventures -- Live from Antartica: part 2

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Activism , Stories , Antarctica , Ecotourism , Consumer Activism My first footsteps on Terra Antarctic this season were taken on Barrientos Island, one of the tiny Aitcho Island group, part of the South Shetlands, still one hundred miles off the continent. (It was just twenty miles from here, ...
  1 week ago

• Advice needed: What to do about our gutters?

  
  Something better to do — Authority: 414
  I’m hoping that someone out there who knows more than I about rain gutters, who has done work on their own gutters similar to what I’m considering, or who has used one of the companies I’m considering, will be able to provide some helpful insight and advice… We use Ned Stevens (NS) to clean our gutters ...
  1 week ago

• Traveling on British Airways this holiday season? Not so fast --

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Business , Airlines , News , Consumer Activism Youve got to hand it to the unions, theyre hitting British Airways where it hurts. Theyve chosen the busiest and most profitable holiday season to strike in protest of the airlines recent cabin crew cuts, a move that will disrupt over a million ...
  1 week ago

• Bowermasters Adventures -- Live from Antartica: part 1

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Activism , Stories , Antarctica , Ecotourism , Consumer Activism The sky is gray, the air filled with a brisk wind and salt spray. A perfect day just south of Cape Horn. We are halfway across the Drake Passage and what is frequently called the windiest-place-on-earth is amazingly - and ...
  1 week ago

• Bowermasters Adventures -- Political conflict in the Galapagos

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Activism , Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Stories , South America , Ecuador , Video , Ecotourism , Consumer Activism Street protests are not a common occurrence in Galapagos, but a recent decision by the Ecuadorian government to fight over fishing and illegal fishing by giving ...
  1 week ago

• ER copayments put lives at risk

  
  Something better to do — Authority: 414
  I’ve just sent the following letter, with minor variations, to Sen. Kerry, Rep. Capuano, State Sen. Tolman, State Rep. Honan, and Martha Coakley (who will almost certainly soon be Sen. Coakley).  If you’re as fed up as I am with this state of affairs (the incident described below is not the first time we’ve ...
  1 week ago

• Tiger Woods choice of paramours: "Catch a tiger by the . . ."

  
  Afro-Netizen — Authority: 106
  By Imani Perry Guest Contributor Its the elephant in the room. Almost all of Tiger Wood’s rumored infidelities are with whitewomen. No one is saying it, but everyone is showing it, by repeatedlydisplaying the multiple images of the multiple women. “Tiger likeswhite women”  can be “said” ...
  1 week ago

• Bowermasters Adventures -- Sea Shepherd Conservation in the Galapagos

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Activism , Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Stories , South America , Ecuador , Video , Ecotourism , Consumer Activism , Central America While Sea Shepherd s chief cheerleader and trouble-inspirer Paul Watson is holding forth from his ship, The Farley Mowat, continuing its chase of ...
  1 week ago

• East of Africa: ToughStuff (w/ video)

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Activism , Photos , Africa , Madagascar , Video , Consumer Activism The idea for ToughStuff came to Adriaan on a trip to his home in the Netherlands, between stints of working with charities and NGOs in Africa for fifteen years. He was in the garden, inspecting a cheap outdoor lamp that had ...
  1 week ago

• Sears violates CAN-SPAM act

  
  Something better to do — Authority: 414
  Today, I received a commercial email message from Sears Home Services, a.k.a., Sears Holdings Corporation.  They got my email address when I made a service appointment through their Web site, which I subsequently canceled when it became clear that they were going to charge me more than a local repair man. The email ...
  2 weeks ago

• Murdoch dodges the question, again: does he think Obama is a racist?

  
  Afro-Netizen — Authority: 106
  A few weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch said that Glenn Beck was right when he called Obama a racist, and since then he has been dodging questions about what exactly he meant. Through one of his staff, Murdoch issued a brief statement saying that he doesnt believe Obama is a racist, but not explaining what he meant when ...
  3 weeks ago

• Harlem Gospel Choir says no to Glenn Beck

  
  Afro-Netizen — Authority: 106
  The Harlem Gospel Choir just canceled their performance as part of Glenn Becks "The Christmas Sweater," a live performance thats scheduled to be broadcast in movie theaters across the country this Thursday. The Harlem Gospel Choir has backed out of a holiday performance with controversial conservative ...
  3 weeks ago

• We must not let Big Telecom segregate the Internet

  
  Afro-Netizen — Authority: 106
  By Malkia Cyril, Chris Rabb and Joseph Torres Originally published on The Huffington Post and cross-posted elsewhere When Fox News’ Glenn Beck called President Barack Obama a racist this past July, the online advocacy group ColorOfChange.org launched a campaign to convince advertisers to boycott ...
  3 weeks ago

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