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Take someone emotionally uninvolved with you to see the puppy. Take someone who has no stake in the decision with you to see the puppy. Take a sibling, a parent or a friend. Give them veto power. If they say no to your buying that puppy, back away from the purchase. Take them aside and listen to why they are uncomfortable. Making a good decision to buy a puppy means putting aside emotions and looking at facts. Someone uninvolved can be a great help in doing just that. I have seen many people who are otherwise very rational become very...

The radical community organizer Saul Alinsky once wrote: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Taking a lesson out of the Alinsky playbook, staff writer Jennifer McLain of the San Gabriel Valley Tribune feels it's her apparent duty to aid public unions in humiliating Metropolitan Water District Board Director Bill Robinson's call for unions to "share some of the pain to avoid rate hikes." She puts Robinson's photo up, not labor leader Antonio Perez. She isolates Robinson, not Perez, for his comments. She polarizes the issue. Read her article here "Water Director Slammed for Questioning Public Employee...

I would say this video snark on Elton John's "Rocket Man" is just wrong...but then it's too friggin' funny....

This ad, from an independent named Miradena, compares Michelle (especially Michelle) and Barack Obama to John McCain. Somebody get McCain this chick’s number.

Due to popular demand and some complaints, particularly from some fellow bloggers, HundredPercenter has revised it's study of blog traffic to include the first quarter of '05 (Jan.-March), instead of Nov.-April. Although, our last study was effective in pointing out how much traffic declined since the elections, it failed to illustrate how the blogosphere is performing on an operating basis, minus one big Presidential extravaganza. Also, after reading this, I felt it was my duty to debunk them. Again, HundredPercenter has completed a study analyzing monthly web traffic of 100 websites,big, small, political, non-political, conservative and liberal-- from January '05...