The classifieds website Craigslist has voluntarily taken down its adult services section, deciding to replace the link to the section with a black box labeled “Censored” rather than just simply removing the link.
But as online safety advocates praised the blocking of the veiled ads for sex and sex-related services, others are complaining that the same ads are appearing on other sections of the site.
Wow.  Who would have ever imagined a stunning development like that?

I have my moments of procrastination. At times, it’s a sort of defense mechanism: I find myself wanting to make a plan before I actually act on something, which isn’t in itself a bad thing.
It gets bad, though, when there are things I know I need to do, and I’m hesitant to act because I’m waiting for all of the pieces of the plan to fall into place. For some things, it’s not unreasonable to want to see the big picture. But when it comes to letting …

The grocery store chain Food Lion, along with the other chains in the Hannaford family, is running The Great Grocery Giveaway contest, which involves shoppers receiving scratch-off cards for purchases they make in the store.
I’m not exactly sure how they determine how many scratch-off cards you’re supposed to get based on any specific dollar amount, because every time I shop there, though my tally is normally in the same general area, I’ve sometimes received two cards at once and sometimes received five.
For the most part, they had been stacking up …

This week, we saw a new hero emerge onto the American scene, a hero whose very appearance trumped two long-held tenets in our culture: first, that the customer is always right; and second, that airlines never get it right.
Former flight attendant Steven Slater, whose now famous (or infamous) exit from a JetBlue airplane after using the intercom to tell a passenger who had possibly assaulted him and probably cursed at him what she could go and do with herself, is now the stuff of t-shirts, buttons and Facebook pages.
And …

What do you think of when you see a product in your supermarket’s beverage section called “Vitamin Water”?
If you believe, based on the name, that it’s a health-friendly drink, then you’re not a reasonable person. That’s according to the drink maker’s legal team, in answer to a lawsuit.

How many awards shows for Country music do we really need?
It wasn’t enough that the Grammys recognize Country music.  CBS had to come up with the Academy of Country Music Awards.  ABC has the Country Music Awards. The CMT (Country Music Television) cable network has the Country Music Television Awards.
I wouldn’t watch any of them with a gun at my head.
Now there’s a new one coming from — of all places — Fox!

There’s that famous billboard that features a photo of President George W. Bush with the phrase,“Miss me, yet?”  Though it’s hard to imagine, I suppose there are those who do.
But this fall, they’ll get a major dose of Ol’ George.
The former president is releasing his memoir, Decision Points, about the key choices he has made in his personal and professional life.  The book is set to come out just a few days after Election Day, which could be a problem for Republicans:  you can expect a nearly-endless publicity tour for …

I was suspicious when TV Land started running movies in place of television shows.  I began to become convinced when it was suddenly so enamored with Rosanne Arnold’s ABC sitcom Roseanne that the network started running for hours at a time every night.
Now, I’m certain:  they’ve decided to seek out new ways to tick me off.
And they’re succeeding with a programming change taking effect tonight:

You’ll see much less of Drew Carey this season on The Price is Right, the show’s 39th.
Not because he’s being replaced by another host, but because there’s literally a lot less of him to see.  Since January, the 52-year old host has managed to do what some of us have lately only dreamed of doing: 

For those who’ve never set foot in a television studio, I should point out that most television studio cameras have tally lights, small lights — usually red — that illuminate when that camera is on the air. The little signal tells the talent where to look and when they are or are not on camera at a given moment.
It doesn’t take working in television for very long to learn that in a studio, if something can go wrong, it always will.  Always.
This is why most folks are told to always …

Here’s a fascinating piece of history that’s related to obsolete things, which was the topic of yesterday’s edition of the Sunday Seven.
Those of us who grew up with them never had to have any elaborate instruction on how to work an old-school rotary phone. We just somehow got it.
But when rotary phones first started appearing, replacing previous models with no dials that required asking a local operator to route your call every time you wanted to speak to someone, a major educational campaign was produced to explain to telephone …

It’s been a bumpy week for game show fans.
First, they learned that Rich Fields is out as announcer of The Price is Right in an alleged move to turn the show into “a variety show within a game show.” On Wednesday, CBS then dashed hopes that a new game would fill the upcoming vacancy created when As The World Turns leaves the air two months from now.