A New Year's sundry observations
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A New Year's sundry observations –
*Since you didn't ask, let us re-load this page for you anyway* : As an indication that the internet's “free” information web-sites have not exhausted their capacity for annoying innovation, we now have sites the main home-pages of which are re-loaded automatically, whether the reader chooses this or not. So, right in the middle of one's reading something, the page reloads, returning one to the top of the page, obliging one to again scroll down to the point at which he was reading before he was so automatically rudely interrupted. (Or simply redirect you to this page, whether you happen to be interested in it or not) Then, this insult has been extended. Now, at some sites (The Guardian (London), for example) if you leave your browser on an open page long enough without detectable signs of active attention on your part, the site will automatically load a page—perhaps the page it most wants to promote—again, completely unbidden.
*All the President's Propaganda-peddlers* : The U.S. press which previously brought you complete “certainty” about the (later shown mistaken) belief that (as they annoyingly referredt to the Iraqi junta's leader) “Saddam has weapons of mass-destruction” now brings you its latest serving of propagandistic junk: the Russians have certainly meddled in the U.S. Presidential election of 2016, trying to influence the outcome by hacking sensitive data and releasing it to the public.
*Ship of Fools*: My favorite Congressional moronic busy-bodies : (for the Republicans) Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain; (for the Democrats) Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Elijah Cummings.
(ETA) John Lewis, too.
*Quexit or Regexit* : I suppose this is the last year in which admirers of Britian's Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Philip, can enjoy their long reign. We'll probably see a King succeed to the throne sometime this year.
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My most recent reading : (Volume 4) Collected Short Stories of Somerset Maugham (Penguin)
*Since you didn't ask, let us re-load this page for you anyway* : As an indication that the internet's “free” information web-sites have not exhausted their capacity for annoying innovation, we now have sites the main home-pages of which are re-loaded automatically, whether the reader chooses this or not. So, right in the middle of one's reading something, the page reloads, returning one to the top of the page, obliging one to again scroll down to the point at which he was reading before he was so automatically rudely interrupted. (Or simply redirect you to this page, whether you happen to be interested in it or not) Then, this insult has been extended. Now, at some sites (The Guardian (London), for example) if you leave your browser on an open page long enough without detectable signs of active attention on your part, the site will automatically load a page—perhaps the page it most wants to promote—again, completely unbidden.
*All the President's Propaganda-peddlers* : The U.S. press which previously brought you complete “certainty” about the (later shown mistaken) belief that (as they annoyingly referredt to the Iraqi junta's leader) “Saddam has weapons of mass-destruction” now brings you its latest serving of propagandistic junk: the Russians have certainly meddled in the U.S. Presidential election of 2016, trying to influence the outcome by hacking sensitive data and releasing it to the public.
*Ship of Fools*: My favorite Congressional moronic busy-bodies : (for the Republicans) Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain; (for the Democrats) Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Elijah Cummings.
(ETA) John Lewis, too.
*Quexit or Regexit* : I suppose this is the last year in which admirers of Britian's Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Philip, can enjoy their long reign. We'll probably see a King succeed to the throne sometime this year.
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My most recent reading : (Volume 4) Collected Short Stories of Somerset Maugham (Penguin)
