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I’m sure Verizon won’t make up a million hidden charges just for me to get a new phone.

Who hasn’t had that experience? Another week of LTR’s. Every paper has letters to the editor, but these letters are to you!

I tell you, sometimes writing this stuff is like giving birth to a breeched silverback gorilla baby.

The less a creature resembles us, the more morally acceptable it is to kill and consume it.

The 2007 NASCAR season officially kicked off on Feb. 2 and for the thirty seventh straight year one particular sponsor is notably absent.

Ed. Note: City Paper has been giving the Five Points Association a pretty tough time lately. After our publisher asked some tough questions at their latest meeting this week I thought we could at least cut them a break and broadcast our “Bum of the Week” column from the Vista. Little did we know what we were getting into.

Living in fear

A little history lesson to explain how we got here

White Southerners love their rights. They’ve got state’s rights and property rights and individual rights. They’ve got sacred rights and god-given rights. They’ve got rights out the wazoo. But one thing you will rarely hear a white Southerner speak for is his civil rights.

Adult Sex Advice, Must Be 18 to continue….

City Paper’s Todd Morehead has breakfast with Sen. Chris Dodd. Lifted from the Columbia City Paper Blog.

By Joe Fotallatte

Hooters Slide Show

The chain acknowledges that many consider “Hooters” a slang term for a portion of the female anatomy. According to the chain, “Hooters does have an owl inside its logo and uses an owl theme sufficiently to allow debate to occur over the meaning’s intent. The chain enjoys and benefits from this debate. In the end, we hope Hooters means a great place to eat.” Right.

Keep public school dollars in public domain

He’s not lazy— that’s not what James is saying. He used to have a real job, a car, a place to call his own. But he there is something going on in his head that he doesn’t want to talk too much about.

“If you’re a telepath like I am then you don’t want nobody messing with you,” he said.

Beirut, Lebanon – Right up to the very end, the farm community near the town of Massoudiyye in northern Lebanon was untouched by this summer’s U.S.-approved Israeli invasion. Its Lebanese farmers and their migrant Syrian workers, ironically, had even briefly benefited – as demand for their produce had risen as supply in the south had waned under Israeli air attacks. Then, two days before the August 14 ceasefire, an Israeli jet aimed a bomb at one of the community’s small road bridges – and missed. Residents came outside to see what had happened. That’s when the Israeli jet dropped a second bomb, killing 11 people.

It will cost $8 million to $10 million to get the hardware in place to get LightRail started and, if funded, it could be working in about six months, officials say.