I got my latest tax bill from the Wake County department of Revenue, and am sad to report that approximately 77% of the Wake County budget is going to the public school system (does anybody know whether or not that figure includes what I’m paying on the ill conceived bonds that were passed in the [...]

I wonder how Sun feels about all this stuff Mozilla is saying about Thunderbird… And here’s another thought…  What good is a web browser without a web editor?  How better to support web standards than to provide a standards compliant web editor… and it seems to me that if there is no room for Thunderbird, [...]

Mozilla is looking to kick Thunderbird out of the fold the same way that they did the Mozilla Suite… I am saddened by this development as I use Thunderbird at home and at work, and in fact, at work, I have forced Thunderbird upon everybody there (well, except for 2 people – who I forced [...]

According to WRAL.com, there is a proposal in the NC Senate that would raise taxes on vehicles in order to build toll roads. Can somebody explain to me why we need a tax hike AND to institute toll roads?? Can somebody explain to me why the half of I-540 that goes AWAY from my house [...]

Banning ladies night?  Isn’t that a bit petty? Really, you’d think that these people would have better things to do with their lives.

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I just returned from seeing Transformers the Movie. The experience was lessened by the morons who talk during the movie. The first half of the movie was entirely supported by the Camaro.    Classic Camaro, then new Camaro…  I liked that… Although I think the decision to not give the Transformers spaceships was dumb…  Precisely [...]

Healing from the sins of the world will not happen in an instant; but, it will happen – if we don’t pridefully block it. God wins in the end, in case you didn’t know. I am really curious as to how this will be received by those who eviscerate people for nothing more than believing [...]

Spammers are sorely abusing your service.  They’re inserting articles with redirects into it.  I am getting spam comments whose “homepages” are listed as being at NC Indymedia. All my attempts to e-mail NC Indymedia have bounced back (the contact page needs updating very badly).   Thus, I am making a public post. UNC Chapel Hill [...]