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The Chronicles of Mitt: May 11, 2012

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pen on paper: 'Dear diary'
 
Hello, human diary! It is once again I, Mitt Romney, your better.

I am continuing the process of writing a diary of my daily experiences on the campaign trail. My advisers continue to insist that there is little to no profit margin involved in personal diaries, but that it will provide an outlet for practicing human emotions such as "empathy," "sincerity" and "hungry." I am all three of those things, diary! There: I believe that worked. Indeed, I feel more well-liked by the common folk...

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Verizon Expanding LTE To 21 More Areas

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Verizon Wireless will expand its already large high-speed, long-term evolution data network in the next month, adding an additional 21 markets by Oct. 20, the carrier said.

The busy wireless provider, the nation's top carrier by subscribers. already announced 20 more markets for LTE last week.

The latest markets are Birmingham, Ala.; Fort Myers, Fla.; Tupelo, Miss.; Asheville, NC; Bartlesville, Okla.; Jackson, Tenn.; Modesto and Stockton Calif.; Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM; Norfolk-Virginia Beach and Richmond, Va,. Hagerstown, Md.; Terre Haute, Bloomington, Elkhart, Evansville and South...

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker claims not to remember saying he'd 'divide and conquer' unions

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Like Republican presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker finds himself at the center of a big story he claims he can't remember his part in. Where, as Amy Sullivan puts it, "Romney knows for sure he didn't think the guy was gay in the incident he doesn't remember," Scott Walker "[doesn't] remember all of the particulars" of the incident we have on video, in which he told a billionaire donor that taking collective bargaining rights from public...
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Airlines To Stream Video and Audio for Personal Devices

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In-flight entertainment is going BYOM: bring your own monitor. Virgin America announced Tuesday a feature coming late next year to its Red in-flight entertainment system that will allow customers to download video and audio files via Wi-Fi to their smartphones, laptops or tablet computers.

Row 44, an in-flight Internet provider, will offer a video streaming service later this year on some aircraft flown by its largest client, Southwest Airlines.

American Airlines, which introduced video streaming in May on 15 Boeing 767s, said Tuesday that it will expand the service to about 400 planes...

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Hate-mongers sell paper targets depicting Trayvon Martin

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target silhouette of Trayvon Martin
Hiller Armament Company
The silhouette on the paper target is faceless. But the hoodie, the Skittles and the iced tea leave nothing to the imagination. This is meant to be Travyon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old shot to death in February in Sanford, Florida. The unidentified internet merchant told Mike DeForest, a reporter for Orlando television station WKMG, that he sold out the silhouettes in two days. The targets come in packages of 10.

The twisted cretin who had these printed said: "My...

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