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Is Rosie really a racist?

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:19:08 GMT

Rosie has been all over the news apologizing like she was caught dropping N-bombs like Cosmo Kramer. Can anybody seriously be offended by her remarks? This racial tension in this country is approaching absurdity.

In a Dec. 5 segment, O'Donnell joked about how
Danny DeVito's recent — and seemingly drunken — appearance on the ABC daytime talk show had become international news.

"You know, you can imagine in China it's like 'ching chong, ching chong chong, Danny DeVito, ching chong chong chong, drunk, "The View," ching chong,'" the 44-year-old comedian said.

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You don't deserve anything

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:03:23 GMT

WARNING: Rant material ahead...

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I have always been amazed at what people will spend on themselves when they 1) don't have enough money and 2) only do it because they think they "deserve" it.

I think the average credit card debt per household in this country is floating around the $8k mark, with no signs of slowing down. That is just credit cards, nothing at all to do with auto loans (which is in the neighborhood of $25k per household I think), student loans, mortgage, etc.

One of the Jeep forums I occasionally visit has, for a long while, poked fun at this. They have assigned them all the title of "How-much-a-month"ers. And I think that pretty much sums it up.

If you ever go into a purchase and start asking "How much will this be per month?", maybe you should rethink your decision.

If you are reading this, and feel an urge to say something like "But, I work really hard and I deserve to have this _____!!!".

The truth is no, you don't. You have to earn it.
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Robots and main page accessibility

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT

On my quest towards e-stardom (aka a relevant and content-rich website), I realized that the navigation towards my older "news items" was somewhat lacking. My solution for this problem was to create a side bar menu that would contain all of the news item titles in descending date order (aka newest first).

A day or two after this change, I began to notice a positive side-effect to including all of these titles as links on the main page...The robots (spiders) were crawling all through my site! I'm not 100% sure, but I can't imagine how this increased indexing would hurt my chances of being returned in some search results.

In a possibly related subject, a Google search for 'Aaron Lynch' now returns this page in the top 10 search results (#6 as of this entry) and an MSN search returns www.AaronJLynch.com as #3!

Does anybody want my autograph?

UPDATE 1/25/06: Either Google has changed my ranking somehow, or my switch to BlogCFC has harmed my accessibility somehow. I now turn up on like page 5 or something terrible. Back to the drawing board!