Around the WebJeff Soyer on 01 May 2013 08:44 am
TN County Commissioner’s Facebook Page Scares Muslims
Commissioner Barry West reposted a photo on his Facebook page that raised some eyebrows.
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Around the WebJeff Soyer on 17 Apr 2013 06:24 am
Negative Feedback on eBay Leads to Lawsuit
Even if it’s true, apparently almost any negative statement you make about a company can result in civil litigation. A woman in South Carolina purchased a product over the internet, on eBay. The package arrived “postage due” which wasn’t what she’d expected. She left negative feedback on the transaction. From Tech Dirt:
While Med Express did express regret (while noting that some other customers had seen the same problem) and offered to reimburse the postage due, it also asked her to remove the negative review. However, as she noted, it wasn’t the money issue, but the inconvenience, so she decided to leave her feedback up. At this point, Med Express and its lawyer, James Amodio, apparently decided that if she didn’t like “inconvenience” it would subject her to more inconvenience and sued her for defamation in state court in Ohio and sought a temporary restraining order against eBay to block the review.
Well, this should win them a bunch of new customers, huh? Almost every large seller on eBay occasionally gets bad feedback and they just shrug it off because if they’re doing things right, the positive feedback will be far more prevalent and they’ll have a good overall rating.
The company in the above quoted story did the exact thing they shouldn’t have done: Draw attention to a mishandled transaction and their strong-armed tactics in dealing with an unhappy customer. Now, everyone knows about it. My blog doesn’t have a large readership but, heck, I found this story via FARK. and they have thousands and thousands of readers — who now know something about this company that they didn’t know, yesterday.
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 13 Apr 2013 04:08 am
FOD has revived his blog, Foreign Object Damage. In a recent post, he compares the anti-gun crowd with the anti-gay crowd and notes that it’s all about control.
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 16 Mar 2013 10:53 am
Glenn Creates the Perfect Lede
This is why he’s one of the best:
SETTING AN EXAMPLE: Obama Flies a 747 to Chicago to Deliver Speech About Using Less Oil.
Perfect!
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 14 Mar 2013 05:49 pm
I’ve been remiss; I should have mentioned this a few days ago but was too wrapped-up in stuff like work, and battling FB.
One of the clearer-thinking, pro-gun bloggers is back at it: Publicola.
He and I are long-time friends and I’m glad he’s resumed his site.
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 20 Feb 2013 10:21 am
Nothing is more ferocious or natural.
Anyway, I’d like to introduce you to a website: Cornered Cat: A Woman’s Guide to Concealed Carry. It’s a good one and I hope you’ll give it a look.
The author is Kathy Jackson and she says this about herself:
I’m a firearms instructor, a homeschool mom, a small business owner, a former magazine editor, a freelance writer, and the author of this website.
If you have never been to my site before you should dive right in and start reading. There are currently over 120 chapters in my ever growing Table of Contents. I cover topics ranging from basic firearm safety to legal issues surrounding self-defense to raising children around guns to the moral implications of deadly force and much, much more.
My goal in producing all this material is to educate and inspire people to take personal responsibility for their own lives and their own safety.
Amen to all of that!
Kathy also has an active blog: Cornered Cat Scratching Post which is a good read and I’ve added it to my blogroll. It’s actually the first time I’ve done anything with my blogroll in a long time.
Anyway, check it all out and say hello to her. Tell her the Vermont Gun Nut sent you!
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 31 Dec 2012 08:00 pm
Helping Those Who (usually) Help Us
Lawrence Person writes about why he rejoined the NRA.
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 17 Dec 2012 04:57 am
Hackers Target Westboro Baptist Church
As an arch defender of free speech, I should be, but I’m not, upset about this:
A group attached to the online hacktivist group Anonymous claims to have hacked the Web site of the Westboro Baptist Church in response to plans by the controversial church to picket the funerals of those massacred Friday at a school in Newtown, Conn.
As part of a campaign dubbed #OpWestBoro, KY Anonymous said yesterday it posted the personal information belonging to members of the extremist organization, which is best known for conducting protests designed to disrupt the funerals of members of the military killed in action. The data dump included the names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and physical addresses of dozens of alleged members of the religious organization.
Instead, I just figure it’s the Internet way of saying, “Sirs, have you no decency?”
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 13 Aug 2012 04:31 am
You know, I’m not the world’s best writer or grammarian but I come off as another William Safire compared to the doctor-author of this piece. Here’s an example:
. . . Gun violence, most dangerous type of violence, has something to do with criminals’ mental disorders, and use of drugs and even foods/dietary supplements such as vitamins and mineral supplementation.
M.G. Tayel of Harvard Medical School and colleagues reported a case in Journal of Forensic Science that a dementia patient who had vitamin B12 deficiency, which worsens his mental conditions and syphilis, killed his wife with a gun.
So remember; take vitamin B12 or your syphilis will get worse.
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 09 Aug 2012 06:26 pm
Spitzer Wants To Ban Semi-Automatic Gun Sales?
According to Eugene Volokh, he does and there are problems with that.
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 06 Jul 2012 05:01 am
I suggest you check your computer for DNSChanger malware.
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 05 Apr 2012 05:20 pm
Background Checks to Buy a Car?
If you listen to anti-gunners’ arguments, licensing gun owners would save lives. But, it hasn’t saved lives when it comes to death-by-automobiles.
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 05 Apr 2012 05:13 pm
If You Live or Work in the District of Columbia . . .
Okay, one more qualifier: If you live or work in D.C. AND you ride the Metro, don’t rub someone the wrong way. Of course, in this liberal, hypersensitive age of professional victimhood, there is no right way. I guess the Metro better run more trains.
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 13 Feb 2012 03:50 am
Decent Gun Control Article at Huff-Po
Seriously, although Steven Strauss is an ardent supporter of gun control, even he finds fault with how NYC dealt with two honest citizens:
[NY County D.A. Cyrus] Vance should use the discretion granted to his office to drop prosecution of Ryan and Meredith. It’s not in the public interest. If prosecutorial discretion could be invoked to not charge Spitzer (Harvard Law graduate, former prosecutor, heir to one of NY’s richest families) who knowingly transported prostitutes across state lines while Governor — Vance can (and should) decide not to prosecute two people who accidentally violated NYC’s gun control laws.
He makes several good points about this in his article at the above link.
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 05 Feb 2012 07:42 am
Two articles deserve mention. They’re interesting in their own right but also in where they appear.
1. In the New York Times, a column critical of the MSM’s liberal bias (really!) on the subject of abortion and its coverage of the Susan B. Komen-Planned Parenthood controversy.
2. At the Wall Street Journal, Why French Parents Are Superior. For one thing, they teach their children patience, not to expect instant gratification.
Around the WebJeff Soyer on 02 Jan 2012 08:48 am
Not that I’m in any immediate need of surgery but, if I were, I won’t be hiring this guy to perform it.
And, yes, I did use the expression, “hiring.” Too many doctors and dentists forget that the patient is still the customer who is hiring, contracting them to diagnose, treat, cure, whatever.
