Far East Cynic

News you can’t use

Yes, I was going to do a post today about getting good news outlets to you. But just as I was ready to start showing you how to be an informed news consumer, over in the fact free world that is Wingnuttia, this happened: Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben

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The Alps are always beautiful!

Was out of pocket this weekend on a skiing trip. The town of Garmish Partenkirchen is always beautiful with its mountain backdrop of the Austrian Alps. This was a fun trip although it seems my skiing skills have atrophied a great deal. This could be due to the mountain being

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Overcome by events

I was going to write a nice non-political post tonight. But tomorrow is Super Tuesday (AKA SEC Primary) and I thought I would remind all present of something they need to know: IF YOU LIVE IN ONE OF THOSE STATES, GET OFF YOUR ASS AND VOTE! While I think it

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A heady cocktail

Or two. Here is a pretty neat cocktail list to describe the current election:

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Something everyone can use.

After last night’s Rethuglican slugfest. My takeaways: Trump does not have as much game as he thinks he does, and needs to put Super Tuesday away quickly. Time is not on his side. That said, he is right about Rubio and Cruz, they have never led anyone or hired anyone.

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So here is a tech question I know someone out there can answer.

This is about Apple’s fight with the FBI. I, by the way, am siding with Tim Cook because I don’t want the FBI having a back door to look at my porn phone. ( Even though I stopped being an I phone user two phones ago, and I have no

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Pouring gasoline on an open fire.

So, it would appear a portion of America really wants to prove to the rest of the world how ignorant they really are. Donald Trump won Nevada. Yet another shameful moment that is the United States election of 2016. Now the media is all over Mr. Trump, calling him unstoppable.

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Recent reading

While I was back in the Whining States of America, I made the obligatory run to Barnes and Noble. I picked up a copy of the Federalist to re-read, my original copy having gone long by the boards when the ex trashed all of my things as was her worthless

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Sir, your blog is fixed. Please pay 999.99 dollars and we don’t take checks.

Looks like the comments fix I worked on last night worked. The display “wrap around” problem where the lower half of the sidebar folded under the content appears to be fixed. “ Life is tough son, its even tougher when you are  stupid unable to interpret HTML code.” Let the whining and

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I always leaves a few parts behind when I fixes ’em.

Did some major site maintenance tonight, trying to get display issues fixed. In the process I screwed up the comments editor and my header. Will work on it tomorrow. You should be able to read content though.

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