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Just after New Year’s Day, I added a question to the Patrick’s Place Poll focusing on the controversy of how to refer to the current year. Some people insist it should be “two-thousand-ten.” A few insist it should be “two-thousand and ten,” which is absolutely incorrect because in mathematics, the...

The Patrick’s Place Poll may look pretty much the same as it always has, but it’s now being powered by a different plugin within Wordpress.  Hopefully, this will allow folks to vote once, but not vote a second time in the same poll. The current one, about the Cash for...

Remember the story about the protest planned at a restaurant whose manager had the gall to ask a breastfeeding mother to make an attempt to cover up? It prompted a question in the Patrick’s Place Poll:  How do you feel about breastfeeding in public?  Here were the results: 60% -...

Cat of This Much is True left the following comment to my post about the coach who was fired after his girls’ basketball team smoked its competition in a 100-0 blowout: “In most leagues, there is a “slaughter rule” which sets a limit by which a team can be behind....

Well, we’re in it now.  So how do you feel as we start a new year? Will this one be better than last year?  Will it make last year look like a trip through paradise? Take the new Patrick’s Place Poll on the sidebar, and if you want to share...

A new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans expect great things from the Obama presidency, according to CNN: “The public thinks it's likely that Obama will improve race relations, improve economic conditions, bring stability to the financial markets, make the U.S. safer from terrorism, reduce the country's dependence on...

What’s your favorite social networking site?  Do you Myspace?  Do you Facebook? I think my first foray into social networking sites was on Friendster, which seemed to be harmless enough.  One or two people I know were actually on that site. Then I joined Myspace.  More people I know are...

Here are the results from the latest Patrick’s Place Poll, which asked which candidate you thought was most ready to lead from Day One, an obscure qualification that no one can really define because it means different things to different people.  Regardless of the vagueness in determining what exactly might...

The procession was led by two horses pulling a pine box topped with a boquet of fake black roses. Funeral-goers weren’t crying. They were cheering. That was the scene in Detroit today as the N-word was laid to rest. Ceremoniously, that is. The NAACP, as part of its 98th Annual...

The local community of Mount Pleasant has banned smoking in indoor workplaces, including restaurants and bars, effective September 1st, according to the Post and Courier. The city of Charleston plans to enact its own smoking ban in July. Unlike Charleston and nearby Sullivan’s Island, whose smoking bans carry a maximum...