{"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":"

\"Claude<\/a>The local elections are odd enough. But “Claude Levi-Strauss<\/a>” is the 4th most popular search on Yahoo? Right between “Dancing With The Stars” and “H1N1 Symptoms”. 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 “The Raw and the Cooked” while overreacting to their spouse’s cough.<\/p>\n

By the way, my home of \u00a0Staten Island has elected its first non-white person to local political office tonight<\/a>. So you can expect some meat heads to beat up random black folks<\/a>, as they did exactly one \u00a0year ago tonight. \u00a0There may be a “post racial America”, but I ain’t seen it yet.<\/p>\n

As an aside, the rich white guy won in NY<\/a> and the 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":"

The local elections are odd enough. But “Claude Levi-Strauss” is the 4th most popular search on Yahoo? Right between “Dancing With The Stars” and “H1N1 Symptoms”. <\/p>\n

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