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Craiglist Adult Section Should Be Shut Down, State Attys Gen Demand
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today, joined by 16 other state attorneys general, is calling on craigslist to immediately remove the Adult Services portion of the site due to continued rampant prostitution advertisements and mounting public outrage. The multi-state letter, to craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster and founder Craig Newmark, contends that craigslist cannot — or will [...]
Groupon – The Hottest Money Saving Site Is Now In Hartford, Ct
I just finished reading Forbes’ cover story about Groupon – the fastest growing company EVER when I got a Twitter message asking me to link up with the new Hartford Groupon folks. This is exciting for all of us and I hope the Groupon soon opens up operations in other major Connecticut cities. If you [...]
Norwalk Hour Becomes 12th Ct Newspaper To Publish CtWatchdog Newspaper Column
In the summer of 1965 I began my newspaper (other than delivering the Ames Daily Tribune and the Des Moines Register) career at the Norwalk Hour as a galley boy. My summer job was to take lead bars from the elevator and place them on hooks over the boiling lead pots in Linotype machines. This Sunday [...]
Arnie Kozak Joins CtWatchdog As Meditation And Stress Reduction Blogger
Arnie Kozak, Ph.D. a clinical psychologist, meditation instructor, and author, is joining CtWatchdog.com as a blogger. He has published Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness (Wisdom, 2009). He also the founder of the Exquisite Mind in Burlington, Vermont and writes a daily blog entitled Mindfulness Matters: Tools for Living Now! As an [...]
Sunburn or Blushing? Hard to Tell at Nude Beaches
Who gets to do the research for such important studies? Are they hiring? The wonderful TripAdvisor.com puts Black’s Beach in San Diego atop it’s list of the top ten recommended nude beaches in the world. The Travel Channel begs to differ — saying that nothing tops topless Little Beach on Maui for the honors in [...]
Fun and Games on a Travel Site
Yipes, I’m more than 2 billion seconds old! Uh, oh. I’ve only got 20,941 days until my 100th wedding anniversary. I better get on the ball looking for a gift. Rattling around the nifty travel site internationalflights.com I got lost in all the neat subsites they have or link to. Timeanddate.com has a device that [...]
BBB Admits It Was Suckered Into Giving “HAMAS” An A- Rating For $425
The Southland Better Business Bureau in California today admitted that it made a mistake by accrediting a fake company called Hamas and giving it an A- rating, but insists that it does not damage its credibility or that of the Better Business Bureau. Unidentified critics of the BBB’s letter grade system – to show how [...]
Better Business Bureau Gives HAMAS Terrorist Organization Accreditation And A- Rating
In an embarrassing move that shines light on how little checking is done by some Better Business Bureau’s before accrediting a business, a California blogger revealed tonight that someone has managed to get a fake business with the name of the terrorist organization Hamas accredited by the bureau in return for a $425 fee.
Squabble Between PolitiFact and Arianne Huffington Shows Why You Should Read Both
As a journalist and a news junkie I love to read insightful coverage of major world and national events.
More and more I turn to the Internet (I still have the Wall Street Journal and Hartford Courant delivered as well as several news magazines) to get a wide range of facts and opinions.
Two places I love going to are the Huffingtonpost.com and PolitiFact.com, with its Pulitzer Prize winning Truth-O-Meter.
Trip Advisor: The More-the-Merrier Importance of Sharing
“You can’t win if you don’t play.” So say the lottery people, but it’s not that far off, too, when it comes to information-sharing travel service sites. You want to play to make it work. There are lots of sites where travelers share knowledge, experiences and advice but TripAdvisor.com is the best for me. I [...]
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