Monthly Archives: February 2013

Hacking JOTR

By Joel Thurtell The New York Times is lucky. Lucky they’re a wealthy organization that can afford to hire a topflight computer security company when they find out that their computers have been hacked. I can kid around about my … Continue reading

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CABs, me and The NY Times

By Joel Thurtell If you get a mention in The New York Times, be grateful. Even if it’s baloney. Remember what P.T. Barnum said about not caring what the papers said about him as long as they spelled his name … Continue reading

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God, Boy Scouts and my ‘Eagle Scout kills atheist’ story

By Joel Thurtell Once a week for a couple years in the 1950s, we Cub Scouts in our blue shirts and yellow neckerchiefs would make a circle around the dining room table of Mrs. Nash, our den mother. We would … Continue reading

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My NRA hit list

By Joel Thurtell I’m on the NRA’s hit list. They’re hitting me up for money so they can protect patriotic Americans whose “Second Amendment rights,” the NRA claims, are in danger of being “dismantled and destroyed.” “THEY WANT TO MAKE … Continue reading

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