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Blogger added an autosave feature a while back. It does as the name suggests, and saves your posts automatically every few minutes, so that you're less likely to lose the thing if your browser crashes. It also allows you to stop mid-post with the intention of coming back later and finishing the post. This is where the problem arises… Turns out, I LIKE autosave. A lot. A recent browse thorough my 'draft' posts revealed several that I'd finished, or nearly finished, then left off without posting because they'd already been saved as drafts. In more than one case, the posts were done, I just never hit publish. In the interest of not letting these go buried, and not willing to move the dates up to something more recent, here's a few posts that almost never saw the light of day. Who knows… maybe that was a good thing. Cloverfield's excellent conceit David Chase is full of crap Niggardly

I know I've been avoiding commenting on the Pres. for a while. What's the point, I figure? He's done the majority of the damage he can, we've got less than a year left of his bullshit, and it just makes me angry to listen to the prevaricating asshole. So why should I pay attention and stress myself out, right? Sadly, sometimes I can't avoid it. Like last week, when the moron-in-chief was asked about recession and replied with the equivalent of "Recession? What recession?" Then followed that up with a reply to a question about $4 a gallon gas prices with something along the lines of "I haven't heard anything about $4 a gallon gas prices." Yeah, George, like we're looking to you for an informative grasp on the issues. But, while I can embrace the notion of blissful ignorance (hence my refusal to listen to the bastard for the past few months), even THIS moron shouldn't get a free ride on this stuff. Gas prices have gone up 45 cents IN A

I know I've written dismissively about Pinkberry before , but this really puts a fine point on it for me… "When a person buys Pinkberry, of course they're paying for the yogurt. But they're also paying for the experience of waiting in line— I'm trendy! —and for a seat in a Philippe Starck chair— I'm so sophisticated! " This quote, from a Fast Company article from earlier this year just epitomizes a 'substance over style' mentality that makes me want to run screaming from the room. Need more? How about this… But Pinkberry isn't about the yogurt… The story of Pinkberry's success is really about the chain's image as a design brand. "In my stores, I serve you a $5 dessert, and I let you sit in $500 chairs," says Lee of the Philippe Starck Victoria Ghost chairs in every Pinkberry outlet. "People can tell the difference." I want to stand in line because it makes me feel trendy, and sitting in designer chairs makes me soph