07 Sep 2008
AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill

Reach out and touch someone ...

A Portland family racked up nearly $20,000 in charges on their AT&T bill after their son headed north to Vancouver and used a laptop with an AirCard twenty-one times to send photos and e-mails back home. The family said they wished they would have received some kind of warning before receiving their chock-full-of-international-fees 200-page bill in the mail for $19,370.

(link) [Slashdot]

09:29 /Humor | 0 comments | permanent link

In Palin’s Life and Politics, Goal to Follow God’s Will

If you wonder why this Heathen's more than a little scared, read this.

Interviews with pastors point to a firm conclusion: Sarah Palin’s foundation and source of guidance is the Bible.

(link) [NYT > NYTimes.com Home]

09:24 /Politics | 1 comment | permanent link

Soviet Union’s Fall Unraveled Enclave in Georgia

Excellent background info - I've wondered if the we're backing the wrong side in this dustup, and it seems as though we may well be.

For the past 18 years a family in Tskhinvali has been reliving the rifts and betrayals that took place in the last months of the Soviet Union.

(link) [New York Times]

09:14 /Politics | 1 comment | permanent link