Tater

November 20th, 2009 at 10:06 AM ^

By encouraging Rosenpuke and Shyster in their attempt at sabotaging RR, the freep has burned their bridge AFAIC. I hope they have lost a lot of revenue from the boycott; maybe this is their way of trying to gain some back. But they won't get another penny or click from me, unless I misread a link and accidentally click onto a freep article. Besides, we get synopses of relevant articles here. That is the best of both worlds; we get the info that was in the articles without having to suffer through the intolerable writing.

Seth

November 20th, 2009 at 12:23 PM ^

Mitch is the guy, I believe, who told an MGoBlogger (or someone who knows an MGoBlogger -- I can't find the old thread) that he likened the Practice "scandal" to a speeding ticket -- i.e. everybody does it, RR got caught by a cop who's had him in his sights, and to anyone sane or knowledgeable, it's a speeding ticket. Even if you're as removed from the actual enterprise as Albom is nowadays, you can't throw a co-worker under the bus. His take makes more sense than anyone else I've read in the Freep this year. Kudos, Mitch.

Don

November 20th, 2009 at 10:46 AM ^

The Freep is fishing out on the small rowboat on the lake in the fading light of dusk, with Brian C. looking on from the lake house, stonefaced, smoking. There's another guy in the boat with Freep, and he's not there to bait the hooks.

Don

November 20th, 2009 at 11:17 AM ^

Stands for American Foundation for the Advancement of Internet Catchphrases. Their headquarters are in D.C. with branch offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. They lobby the shit out of Congress.

Tim Waymen

November 20th, 2009 at 12:13 PM ^

And Mitch wrote it without exploiting his dead mentor whom he abandoned before realizing he could make some serious bank by visiting him (or making it up) and writing a sappy book about it! Hooray!