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The couple who walked in and offered me moneyBy Zoe Heller (Filed: 02/02/2002) I WORK in an empty apartment in my building. It's a rather filthy place with an ominous amount of rat droppings on the floor. It's also freezing cold so I usually write in a Parka, with a little space heater pressed against my legs. Into this charming scene, earlier this week, stumbled a man and a woman carrying clipboards. I was not alarmed. People are always wandering in off the street looking for something to steal or somewhere to pee. This particular pair looked rather more ...

Anyone know what happened to the Drudge report? I get a Forbidden access message when I try to go there.

I don't know if anyone here has been sending any untoward comments or threats to the Florida Courts, but I would caution against doing so if you are. The reason I bring this up is that my firewall just detected a trace from clerkleonfw.clerk.leon.fl.us at IP address 199.44.225.2 while I was on Free Republic reading posts. If they are tracing the computers logged onto Free Republic, I suspect that they may have a reason for doing so. So I am posting this to inform the foolish among us that such things might get you in hot water.If I am ...

I watched the Leon County Court case today, despite having spent the entire week on Jury duty listening to much less exciting testimony in a civil case. I watched as the brave campaigners for Al Gore testified, and were cruelly attacked by mean-spirited rascally Republican lawyers, who obviously cared not one whit that these two, a mentally-retarded throwback from the sixties, and a poor defenseless immigrant, are precisely the kind of people that Al Gore will be fighting for, if only the votes are fully and fairly counted. So, how can these votes be fully and fairly counted, with even ...