Bob McCarty Writes

Barack Obama is out on the campaign trail stoking fears that another Great Depression, complete with bread lines and high unemployment, is just around the bend.  While the financial crisis is indeed serious, the differences between the economy of the 1930s and today are vast.
BREAD LINES
In a piece earlier this year for the Business and [...]

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I’m stuck in a long-term commitment with my wireless carrier and can’t afford to switch to an Apple iPhone. After watching the iPhone 3G parody video below from The Soup, maybe I don’t really want to switch after all.

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Apple retail stores will open early this Friday, according to an e-mail message I received from Apple today. Unfortunately, I’m locked into a contract with Sprint that will probably end at just about the time Apple begins selling iPhone 100Gs for $29.95 after having been replaced with better technology. Oh well.

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Today, I was pleasantly surprised to find my 2008 April Fools Day prank — concocted several weeks ago and posted early this morning at Bob McCarty Writes — mentioned in an article published at the CNET News Blog.

Writer Jonathan Skilling began his piece, All the April Fools’ news that’s fit to print, with this declaration:
The [...]

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