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Everyone knows I fully support science but this ought to warrant some concern.  The same people who claim the Large Hadron Collider is a safe venture made this comment to NPR recently regarding what it may produce… “Or maybe dark matter, which makes up much of the universe but hasn’t ever been directly detected. Some […]

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Everyone knows that as of today you can’t text while driving in NC.   Duh.  As if it were OK before the law went into effect.  You also can’t let your python loose to kill your neighbor or a kid.  Apparently that was also excusable before today.  Here’s some more: fine motorists as much as $100 […]

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It is the second such fatality at that location. In October 2005, Todd Fletcher, 26, fell to his death not realizing that the bridges between the Outer and Inner beltlines were separated by open space. via Police: Man fell to death from Beltline after crash :: WRAL.com. The NCDOT Design Engineers deserve another moment of […]

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Right now Verizon is starting to chew rapidly into iPhone marketspace with the new Droid.  The reason is obvious to the majority of AT&T customers, AT&T has a horribly bad network.  Coverage is sporadic at best despite AT&T’s postcard ads on TV where they claim coverage in 300,000 metropolitan areas.  Yep, very poor coverage. The […]

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The comment section on WRAL articles is the most heavily censored forum I’ve ever seen on the Internet.  They actually hire censors, they call “moderators”, to read comments in real time and decide which are worthy of posting and which are not.  The guidelines for their decision making are vague at best and often seem […]

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Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers, love the Honda Element.  I’m not sure you understand.  It’s a bad fascination and obsession with the Honda Element.  I’ve never heard a caller dial into their show, Car Talk, asking for a vehicle recommendation that these guys didn’t recommend the Element, a vehicle in contention for being the […]

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It is done.  And not one mention of Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney who has championed this change for many years.  Overdraft fees on debit cards are DEAD as of August 15th. “The rules will take effect for new cards on July 1. For existing accounts, issuers will not be able to charge overdraft fees without the […]

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For a long time now this site’s been the top results of a Google search of my own name.  I would be proud of that except that there is one other Todd Singleton that deserves to be first.  That honor should belong to Sgt. Todd Andrew Singleton who was killed in Iraq in 2007. “When he […]

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I have a real conundrum and  I’m not sure what to do.  I genuinely and honestly have no idea if I am responsible for the wreck I was in this weekend.   The details are below.  I’m prepared to admit up front that I was on my phone.  But that’s not a crime in NC, sorry haters.  And […]

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