A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit by a Hawaii man against the publisher of an online virtual-world game go forward. The lawsuit alleges the man became so addicted to the game that he is “unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or communicating with family and […]
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Each year I become more convinced time goes more rapidly. That was confirmed again this morning when the youngest and middle daughter headed back to college. Although middle daughter worked in Pierre during the summer, it seems like it was just two or three weeks ago youngest daughter got home for the summer. They took […] Scarlett Thomas likes to write about big ideas. She doesn’t deviate from that in her latest novel, Our Tragic Universe. In fact, the novel is built around portentous issues like immortality and whether we are all living in a simulated universe — and the storyless story. That’s right, the storyless story. Essentially, it’s a story […] Bulletin Board I should have mentioned it before since it ended with July but I did not succeed with the Random Reading Challenge. I made it 75 percent of the way there but under the grading standards in the local schools that’s a “D”. Even the host, Caribousmom, also didn’t make her goal. And, sadly, […] A Florida man was arrested after punching the father of an autistic because the child disturbed his dining experience at Olive Garden. (via Jonathan Turley) The North Carolina State Bar has filed charges against an attorney who is alleged to have asked a divorce client how much it would cost to unbutton or remove each […] |
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