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TELL ERNESTINE TO PHONE OFF – PART ONE (OF TWO)
Lily Tomlin introduced her character of Ernestine, the rude, gossipy, know-it-all telephone operator, in the 1960s series Laugh-In. A typical skit would open: “A gracious hello. Here at the Phone...
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TELL ERNESTINE TO PHONE OFF – PART TWO (END)
From November, 2011 to February, 2012, AT&T demanded that Dave pay them for a service they had failed to provide. They had promised to supply him with Uverse high-speed Internet–at 25 MBPs a...
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HANGING UP ON THE PHONE COMPANY: PART ONE (OF TWO)
Lily Tomlin introduced her character of Ernestine, the rude, gossipy, know-it-all telephone operator, in the 1960s series Laugh-In. A typical skit would open: “A gracious hello. Here at the Phone...
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HANGING UP ON THE PHONE COMPANY: PART TWO (END)
From November, 2011 to February, 2012, AT&T demanded that Dave pay them for a service they had failed to provide. They had promised to supply him with Uverse high-speed Internet–at 25 MBPs a...
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GOVERNMENT AS IT REALLY WORKS: PART ONE (OF TWO)
Millions of Americans are outraged to find that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been running a program to spy on the Internet. National Security Agency Created in 1952, the NSA is the largest...
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GOVERNMENT AS IT REALLY WORKS: PART TWO (END)
In 1972, 41 years before Edward Snowden revealed that the National Security Agency was spying on the Internet, David Halberstam issued a warning about government secrecy. As a reporter for The New York...
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GOVERNMENT AS IT REALLY WORKS: PART ONE (OF TWO)
Millions of Americans are outraged to find that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been running a program to spy on the Internet. National Security Agency Created in 1952, the NSA is the largest...
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GOVERNMENT AS IT REALLY WORKS: PART TWO (END)
In 1972, 41 years before Edward Snowden revealed that the National Security Agency was spying on the Internet, David Halberstam issued a warning about government secrecy. As a young reporter for the...
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COVERING TRUMP AS HE DESERVES
On June 8, 2017, James Comey testified before the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. On May 9, he had been fired as director of the FBI by President Donald Trump. During his...
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FACEBOOK, WE’RE GLAD TO LEAVE YE: PART ONE (OF FOUR)
A September 30 story on the CNBC website spells bad news for Facebook: “Facebook Is Scrambling to Escape Stock’s Death Spiral as Users Flee, Sales Drop.” Writes Jonathan Vanian: “Meta [Facebook’s...
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FACEBOOK, WE’RE GLAD TO LEAVE YE: PART TWO (OF FOUR)
Facebook is in big trouble. And much of it stems from its own greed and arrogance toward its customers. An email recently sent to Winnie Liu, director of Facebook & Instagram Research, offers...
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FACEBOOK, WE’RE GLAD TO LEAVE YE: PART THREE (OF FOUR)
All is not well in Facebook. According to its profile on Wikipedia: “The subject of numerous controversies, Facebook has often been criticized over issues such as user privacy (as with the Cambridge...
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FACEBOOK, WE’RE GLAD TO LEAVE YE: PART FOUR (END)
And, on Facebook, the complaints just keep coming. [NOTE: The spellings are those of the complainants.] FACEBOOK BETRAYED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US ON HERE. SO MUCH SO THAT NOW WE HAVE AN...
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2022: A BAD YEAR FOR DICTATORS: PART ONE (OF TWO)
The year 2022 was not a good one for dictators. Four of them—one Russian, three American—suffered humiliating defeats. If these didn’t herald their coming overthrow, they certainly erased these...
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2022: A BAD YEAR FOR DICTATORS: PART TWO (END)
The year 2022 proved a disastrous one for dictators. The first of these profiled in this two-part series was Russian President Vladimir Putin. But the...
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