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Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
A Bit Less Distance Between
LPR and the Mainstream?

OCTOBER 9, 2005 --

Last week, LPR alluded to the problem looming for some senior citizens of not being able to make ends meet on
retirement.

After writing the item, but before it appeared, LPR saw an article on this subject in the New York Post, October
2 -- and PBS will look at this issue next week on its NOW program.

A few days after LPR's stated willingness to enter into a syndication agreement with a media company, the AP reported that AOL will purchase 85 blogs for $25 million -- and is looking to sign agreements with
other websites.

The AP story indicated that websites
discuss a wide range of subjects. LPR wonders, however, if anyone else is trying to call attention to the crushing credit card interest rates that punish cardholders.

This month, LPR's interest rate on a Chase card is 27.4%

The AP story noted that website readership tends top be influential. LPR has not been approached by AOL or anyone to make a deal.

But hopes its clicksters will call attention to items that appear here, including the subject of punitive credit card interest rates.

LPR last week referred to Mayor Bloomberg as monolithic. This view is hardly contradicted by the report in The New York Times. October 8, that the mayor has spent $50 million of his own money seeking re-election -- a sum that, for the mayor, is quite manageable, apparently.

The Times also reported that the mayor is worth $6 billion.

And not very long after LPR posted a Kurt Vonnegut lithograph, LPR noticed that he was being interviewed on PBS.

Among other things, author Vonnegut indicated his displeasure with President Bush and described Republicans and Democrats as "winners," with the rest of us as "losers."

And he also suggested, if LPR heard
accurately, that he should sue a tobacco company because he still smokes and, at age 82, is yet to killed by cigarettes.