Monthly Archive: October 2007

Getting the Best Buy Out of Best Buy 9

Getting the Best Buy Out of Best Buy

For quite some time now, we’ve been using a pretty ghetto vacuum cleaner. I picked it up about 6-7 years ago when I first moved out and it’s since followed me through 5 dwellings and getting married. It’s been on...

Further Evidence That Lowe's Rocks 2

Further Evidence That Lowe's Rocks

A little under three weeks ago, the ancient relic that was our refrigerator started showing some early warning signs of death. It started with things kept in there not feeling quite as cool as they should. Before long, we were...

Mark Towner Makes Another Vague Legal Threat 4

Mark Towner Makes Another Vague Legal Threat

Some folks don't learn from their mistakes. Witness the vague legal threat that Mark made towards me. To Mr. Harris, PCE approached me in June 2007 about obtaining data, email security, website security consulting. The $5,000 payment received in September...

Mark Sorta Comes Clean 1

Mark Sorta Comes Clean

I guess even crazy spammer Mark Towner knows when to stop denying. Kind of. Paul Rolly reports that Towner admits to being behind the Utahnsforpublicschool.com site but says it was a sting operation to expose closeted voucher opponents and has...

Salt Lake City Council Candidate Luke Garrott Ends Up Sending Spam 4

Salt Lake City Council Candidate Luke Garrott Ends Up Sending Spam

Seems that the spam news in Utah is all over the place these days. I got the following in my inbox this morning:

It All Comes Together: Mark Towner Was Hired by PCE, Probably to Send Spam 8

It All Comes Together: Mark Towner Was Hired by PCE, Probably to Send Spam

With the excellent detective work from around the bloghive (hat tips to Bob Aagard, Mata Hari (twice!), Utah Conservative and a shall-remain-nameless e-mailer), the picture has become clear: Mark Towner sent the now-infamous "Voucher News" e-mail AND has been paid...

More Mark Towner Oddities 4

More Mark Towner Oddities

Witness the following: Why would UtahnsForPublicSchool.com (no S at the end) have a directory on it named thespyglass? And isn't a funny coincidence that the e-mail originated from ssl-mail.com, the same site that services Mark's sent.com e-mail address? Something in...

Was Mark Towner Behind the Voucher News E-mail? 2

Was Mark Towner Behind the Voucher News E-mail?

That depends on who you talk to. It seems that a fair number of Utah bloggers (like Marshall over at Wasatch Watcher) believe it to be so. The Deseret News reported on the deceptive spam e-mail in today's edition. What's...

Medic! (Or, Why does health care cost so dang much?) 7

Medic! (Or, Why does health care cost so dang much?)

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the costs of medical care. I first noticed the trend with an op-ed by Steve Olsen in the Standard Examiner last month and the resultant follow-up from The Deseret Spectacle. Since then,...