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Its been years. Day after day. Get rich overnight. Enlarge whatever part of your anatomy. Meet the mate of your dreams and buy some Valium. We  brush our teeth and delete the spam. All part of the daily routine. We understand the tooth maintenance, but why do these clowns keep sending these ridiculous offers. Because they work enough of the time to make it worth someones time Sex, drugs and software lead spam purchase growth

Bradley AnstisIn further news of interest to security resellers, 29 per cent of internet users have purchased goods from spam emails, according to new research by Internet security company Marshal. The most commonly purchased items include sexual enhancement pills, software, adult material and luxury items such as watches, jewellery and clothing.

29 percent of you are banned from the net, effective immediately.

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Scott Horton at The Atlantic interviews James Hawes about his Kafka biography Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life.

When I found that beetle-image in Werther, by sheer drunken chance, I couldn’t believe no one had seen it before, so I right away fired off a (still drunken) email to the Chair of German at Oxford, whom I’d once met. He said he didn’t know of anyone who’d found it, either. This was well before any thought of “Kafka’s porn” was around: it convinced me graphically that there really is what I’ve called “the unbearable blindness of Kafka studies” and that anything that could be used to crack that frozen sea, however sensationalist it might seem, was justified–if only it would help get back to Kafka’s writing as it really was, is, and always will be. And why read Kafka today? Because his analysis of the way we’re so fatally, suicidally tempted by visions of a gold-lit past, complete with all its alleged certainties and securities, is more needed today than ever. His works are one great warning against swallowing the grand illusions, one great demand that if we want to really live, we have to grow up and look life in the eye.

In a way it does a disservice to great artists like Kafka to put them beyond reach, on a pedestal so high that people start to see them either as unquestionable iconic features or to many students the dry and stodgy remnants of ages past that are read only because they’re required.

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I was thinking about drawing a diagram for this update it might make it easier to see the absurdity of urban myths and how they’re created. The Dirt In The Cross Story, Ctd. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes The Gulag Archipelago (three volumes) (1973–1978)+Watergate criminal Charles Colson writes 1983 book, “Loving God.” + Chuck says in Gulag there is a passage where a guard makes a sign of a cross in the sand+ this event never occurred in Gulag+ story gets passed around the grapevine and is echoed by racist homophobe the late Jesse Helms and the late Evangelical leader Billy Graham among others+in 1973 McCain writes about his genuinely horrible experiences in the “Hanoi Hilton”+ McCain recalls that one guard shows him some kindness, but no mention of the compelling story of his also having a guard also draw a cross sign+1999 Mark Salter+who helped McCain write faith of My fathers+cross in the dirt story suddenly appears+fast-forward to 2005+ Republican web site The Free Republic mentions story where most commenters either imply or out right call McCain a liar+2008 McCain uses cross story and some bloggers wonder why its being brought up and the eerie similarity to stories they’ve heard passed around before+McCain campaign staffer angrily denounces “liberal” blogs for daring to question McCain’s possibly faulty memory, but say nothing about Chuck Colson, Gulag, Jesse Helms or the freepers = in sum none of this matters in the sense that even though it appears that the freepers of all people were right about McCain lying and exploiting the religious Right by borrowing an enhanced version of the cross myth started by Republicans; those people that were going to vote for McCain are going to do so anyway. Then again, those people that might have considered it dishonorable for McCain to cheat at the Saddleback Church haven’t heard much in the way of media coverage because of all the noise over the cross in the dirt story. Political Science Lesson: One can make integrity and honor the centerpiece of ones campaign, come up lacking in both qualities and still have a shot at the presidency.