I’m growing increasingly irritated by businesses who make me sign in to their website so I can unsubscribe from their email list.
Yes, this means you SAGE Publications and, yes, you too Creativity Online.
There is a strong chance that I’m unsubscribing from your email newsletter because I haven’t been to your site in a while, which means that I probably can’t even remember my username, much less my password.
Or perhaps I’m unsubscribing because I had planned on subscribing to your RSS feed.
But to get myself off your list, you want to make me go through the rigamarole of remembering my username (or customer number) and requesting my password.
Sure, I could do this, but it’s easier for me (and more satisfying) to just click that “block sender” or “report spam” button.
So now you know.
From HuffPo, 10 June 2009:
SMITH: There are people now, who are way out there on a limb. And I think they’re just out there on a limb with the email they send us. Because I read it, and they are out there. I mean, out there in a scary place…I could read a hundred of them like this…I mean from today. People who are so amped up and so angry for reasons that are absolutely wrong, ridiculous, preposterous.”
Hmmm.
From Fox News: Cameraman Caught in Middle When Town Hall Erupts Into Violence
I’m not getting into who’s right or wrong about the health care debate. I just have a question:
“Whatever happened to class”?
Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis
From AP: Blacks lament cemetery scandal’s affect (sic) on history
CHICAGO — Harold Lucas was raised with the stories about his grandparents, who rode segregated railroad cars from Missouri to Chicago in the 1930s and worked tirelessly to raise their family into the middle class.
Jeff and Ida Lucas were buried in Burr Oak Cemetery, alongside thousands of black Americans who made up the Great Migration — a movement north during the first half of the 20th century.
Burr Oak, once one of the only burial places for blacks, holds a sacred spot in African-American history — making all the worse allegations that workers there dug up bodies and dumped them to resell the burial plots.
It’s interesting how different cultures treat their dead. I was horrified when I first heard that here in Switzerland, it’s legal for bodies to be dug up from their graves for the plots to be resold.
From what I understand, the family gets a notice from…hmmm…I guess the cemetery…telling them that they’re about to dig up Oma. I have no idea what happens to the bodies. Jeder…kannst Du mir sagen?
So when you purchase a plot here, you’re actually just renting it.
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