{"id":454,"date":"2009-11-04T00:02:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T05:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/?p=454"},"modified":"2010-02-23T18:38:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T23:38:41","slug":"strange-news-on-my-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2009\/11\/strange-news-on-my-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange News on my Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Claude-Levi-Straus.png.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"455\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2009\/11\/strange-news-on-my-computer\/claude-levi-straus_t\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Claude-Levi-Straus_t.png?fit=158%2C140\" data-orig-size=\"158,140\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Claude Levi-Straus_t\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Claude-Levi-Straus_t.png?fit=158%2C140\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Claude-Levi-Straus_t.png?fit=158%2C140\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-455\" title=\"Claude Levi-Straus_t\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Claude-Levi-Straus_t.png?resize=158%2C140\" alt=\"Claude Levi-Straus_t\" width=\"158\" height=\"140\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>The local elections are odd enough.  But &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/tempsreel.nouvelobs.com\/actualites\/sciences\/20091103.OBS6748\/deces_de_claude_levistrauss.html\" href=\"http:\/\/tempsreel.nouvelobs.com\/actualites\/sciences\/20091103.OBS6748\/deces_de_claude_levistrauss.html\" target=\"_blank\">Claude Levi-Strauss<\/a>&#8221; is the 4th most popular search on Yahoo? Right between &#8220;Dancing With The Stars&#8221; and &#8220;H1N1 Symptoms&#8221;.  So I can only conclude that America, while gearing up for a possible deciding game of the Baseball World Series on Wednesday, is watching celebrities dance, while reading &#8220;The Raw and the Cooked&#8221; while overreacting to their spouse&#8217;s cough.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, my home of \u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/11\/debi_rose_wins_north_shore_rac.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/11\/debi_rose_wins_north_shore_rac.html\" target=\"_blank\">Staten Island has elected its first non-white person to local political office tonight<\/a>. So you can expect <a title=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/11\/staten_island_teens_accused_in.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/11\/staten_island_teens_accused_in.html\" target=\"_blank\">some meat heads to beat up random black folks<\/a>, as they did exactly one \u00a0year ago tonight. \u00a0There may be a &#8220;post racial America&#8221;, but I ain&#8217;t seen it yet.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, the <a title=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/elections\/?results-all\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/elections\/?results-all\/\">rich white guy won in NY<\/a> and the <a title=\"http:\/\/elections.nj.com\/dynamic\/files\/elections\/2009\/by_state\/NJ_Governor_1103.html?SITE=NJNEWELN&amp;SECTION=POLITICS\" href=\"http:\/\/elections.nj.com\/dynamic\/files\/elections\/2009\/by_state\/NJ_Governor_1103.html?SITE=NJNEWELN&amp;SECTION=POLITICS\" target=\"_blank\">rich white right-wing fat guy won in NJ<\/a>. \u00a0So I guess we have to go to work tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local elections are odd enough.  But &#8220;Claude Levi-Strauss&#8221; is the 4th most popular search on Yahoo? Right between &#8220;Dancing With The Stars&#8221; and &#8220;H1N1 Symptoms&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2009\/11\/strange-news-on-my-computer\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[106,135],"tags":[183,185,180,184],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mYFK-7k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}