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In case you missed it, this gem appeared in the Friday Wall Street Journal in an article about the steady shift of the American economy's transactions from cash or check to plastic:
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Some Christians see the pervasive use of plastic as part of a dark biblical prophecy. Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, has said that plastic may signal the cashless society of the end times foreshadowed in the Bible. Mr. Robertson's network accepts contributions from supporters on both Visa and MasterCard. |
The end times, it seems, will be financed at a low introductory APR -- but when the full rate kicks in, sinners beware!
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Blogging and bloggers are getting tons of attention as the Democratic Convention gears up. Dave Winer has set up a really useful blog aggregation of tons of the con-blogging.
Salon, meanwhile, has a half-dozen staffers in Boston. The coverage will be all over our home page, but a lot of it is already pumping through War Room, our political blog. Check out Tim Grieve's report on Al Sharpton's stemwinder:
"Sharpton contrasted his run for the presidency with Bush's experience of 'being born on third base and thinking he hit a triple.' 'I wasn't even born in the stadium,' Sharpton shouted. 'I had to fight through the parking lot, get through the front gate, go around through the crowd, and thenhit a triple.' "
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While the eyes of the nation are on a certain convention in Boston this week, I will be counter-programming: Tomorrow I'm heading up to Portland for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Although Salon started covering free/open source software back in 1997, when I was editing Andrew Leonard's great pieces on Apache etc., I have never been to one of these fabled events, so I'm looking forward to it, and hope to do at least some posting from there.
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