{"id":2599,"date":"2020-03-16T06:48:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T11:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2020-03-16T06:48:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T11:48:27","slug":"sunday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/03\/16\/sunday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Up late doing work.  It happens.  I did get a little teed-off about one of these tell-everybody-you-can-think-of emails from one of the other techs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said I was ignoring text messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were you sending them to my old number?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But an officious email to everybody will cover up for the problem existing between the keyboard and chair, no? <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PEBKAC (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=pebkac\" target=\"_blank\">PEBKAC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise, I&#8217;ve been abusing myself by watching Chuck Todd, and, on one of his gusts&#8217; recommendations, NextDoor.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MSNBC might well be a bigger danger to society than a politician who decries &#8220;fake news,&#8221; Upchuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is somebody who&#8217;s been saying that people who don&#8217;t trust people like him are dangerous.  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"1 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2018\/08\/26\/chuck_todd_american_distrust_of_media_created_by_conservative_echo_chamber_not_based_in_much_fact.html\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"2 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/chuck-todd-has-a-theory-about-media-mistrust\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"3 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2020\/03\/09\/chuck_todd_coronavirus_is_a_test_for_trump_the_way_iran_hostage_crisis_was_for_carter.html\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"4 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/bethbaumann\/2020\/03\/15\/no-dr-fauci-hasnt-called-for-a-14day-lockdown-over-the-wuhan-virus-n2564976\" target=\"_blank\">4<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I&#8217;m a bit of a masochist, I have been trying to watch his show lately.  One of his guests, the just-as-Republican-as-Bill-Weld David Brooks, mentioned <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Nextdoor (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/nextdoor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nextdoor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in the afternoon, I got an email message talking about how MSNBC and change.org were working on a petition to get everyone a COVID-19 test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Really?  Seriously?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then these old, rich, white folks were telling me exactly how I should handle the situation.  No, that&#8217;s okay.  I&#8217;ll let my docs at Georgetown to dictate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorry if that makes me dangerous, Upchuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up late doing work. It happens. I did get a little teed-off about one of these tell-everybody-you-can-think-of emails from one of the other techs. He said I was ignoring text messages. Were you sending them to my old number? Oh. But an officious email to everybody will cover up for the problem existing between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}