On The Turning Away

Crossposted.

Crossposted.

Crossposted at the new blog.

Last week Bob Garfield hung up his boots after an 11-long months of crusading against Comcast. In the interim, many thousands “angry, mistreated” customers have visited the site to voice their grievances. Now their efforts appear to bear fruit: Griping Online? Comcast Hears and Talks Back.

Besides cable providers, credit card companies also deserve a place in the pantheon of abusive customer service. And we’ve had our fair share of woes with Chase credit card, part of JP Morgan Chase.

If you google “complaints about Chase credit card”, you’ll get hundreds of thousands of results, with the most recent ones dated yesterday. Which makes you wonder: Is Chase listening at all to those complaints or is it business as usual? If our experience today is any guide, the answer might be the latter.
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The last post (July 11, 2008) was hacked again while we’d gone fishin’. But sys admin is investigating it. Here is a repost. Or this.

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Summer is in full swing here - Fannie and Freddie plummeted as investors fear “socialism at our doorstep”, Fake Steve Jobs decided to hang up his boots, and stuffwhitepeoplelike hit the bookstores.

In the meantime, some intrepid souls “summered” in our backyard, a/k/a blog, and removed a June 10 post on “Deranged Hillary Hatred”. Summer must be going swimmingly for those into somersaults, we wonder?

We were alerted to the fact that someone hacked this blog and removed the June 10 post, “Deranged Hillary-Hatred”. Once it’s published, it’s in Google’s hands, as they say. We repost it here.

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Perhaps the specter of credit crunch has got into the heads of political pundits in the media, otherwise how can you explain the popularity of CDS, aka Clinton Derangement Syndrome? The US editor of UK’s New Statesman, Andrew Stephen, eviscerates media’s hideous Hillary coverage in the Dems primaries.

Hillary Clinton (along with her husband) is being universally depicted as a loathsome racist and negative campaigner, not so much because of anything she has said or done, but because the overwhelmingly pro-Obama media - consciously or unconsciously - are following the agenda of Senator Barack Obama and his chief strategist, David Axelrod, to tear to pieces the first serious female US presidential candidate in history.

Not to mention maniacal Obama supporters who seem nonchalant at best, happy at worst, with the way Hillary was treated. Her any action, no matter how innocuous, was “proof of evil intent”. Paul Krugman, NYT columnist, believes that most of the “venom” in the campaign “is coming from supporters of Obama”.
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Now that their preferred candidate is the de facto nominee, what do progressives, in particular men who spewed vitriol at Hillary and her supporters, feel amid the postmortem frenzy? Perhaps better late than never - they have come to realize that they cannot “brush aside” sexism after all.

It’s more a sop than mea culpa. Were they so swept off their feet by the maelstrom that they lost their head? “[T]he discourse we all engage in sometimes explicitly, and more often tacitly, reinforces” sexism and misogyny. But a Pyrrhic victory is a victory nonetheless - only it sets back progressive movement for decades.
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We recently asked a random number of people in our circle where they meet their friends. Perhaps not surprisingly, college (and to a lesser extent, high school) tops the list, followed by alumni events and networking occasions. So is it the happenstance where we meet that leads to friendship or is it because we consciously seek out those whose values we share?

Scientists at University of Leipzig endeavored to test the notion whether “People More Likely To Become Friends Based on Proximity Or Shared Values”.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, their findings suggest that friendships are based on more superficial factors like chance encounters, rather than intentional choice and common values and interests. But our straw poll does not seem to conform to their conclusion.
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“When not prompted by vanity, we say little.”
- Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)