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Originally posted: July 1st, 2007

Filed under the category of "Things I've been saying all along, but no one's been willing to believe":

"Young people have extraordinary potential that is often not expressed because teens are infantilized and isolated from adults."

- Scientific American Reports, June 2007, page 73

"Laws restricting the behavior of young people (under age 18) have grown rapidly in the past century…U.S. teens have 10 times as many restrictions as adults, twice as many as active-duty U.S. Marines and twice as many as incarcerated felons."

- Scientific American Reports, June 2007, page 72

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Originally posted: April 23rd, 2007

Wow. Just, wow...

"You would think that members of Congress would have considered the warming effect that an extra hour of daylight would have on our climate."

- Connie M. Meskimen of Hot Springs, Arkansas

From:

Climate And Daylight Savings Time

Source: http://www.nctexasbirds.com/images/hot_news.jpg

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Originally posted: March 3rd, 2007

That's right. I'm on the phone with them as I type this. Time Warner Cable cannot find my account. They bill us. We receive service. But after half an hour, their tech support absolutely cannot find our account.

EDIT: Holy shit! After transferring me to the correct city, and the post-telephone-menu-system-from-hell recording tells me my wait is "sissy minutes to one hour and seventeen minutes" (Yes, "sissy" minutes. Apparently that's Time-Warner-speak for "fifty"), the message suddenly blind-sides me with blast of "why didn't I think of that" common sense: It offered to call me back when my place in the queue reaches an actual rep. So I can actually wait in line without listening to gay music (gay as in Brady Bunch, not gay as in happy or gay as in *cough* homersexual) that gets interrupted every 20 seconds (literally, I timed it) by a canned "Your call is important to us..." (Apparently, recorded messages value phone calls very highly) Well, we'll see if it actually happens...*fingers cautiously optimistically crossed with a horrifically mixed and adverb-laden metaphor*

My god, my writing is dense.

EDIT 2: They called me back, but still can't find my account. Of course. Quote of the day: (after reading them my account number) "Wow, that's a pretty long number. I'll try it but I don't know if it will work." I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm starting to miss Adelphia.

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