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... you would know what I know. So you should really sign up for that.Note to Doug: I got married at that very hotel once. Hopefully things will work out better for you.Second note to Doug: Stop being a primitive troglodyte asshole and get an RSS feed for your podcast, dude.Like KN@PPSTER? Check out Tom Knapp's work at the Garrison Center too!

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From the St. Louis, Missouri Post-Dispatch:For the 14th time this year, an Illinois trooper is struck by passing motoristAuthorities say the factors for other crashes involving parked police cars can include people driving too fast, being distracted or not being aware of the law that requires them to move over.Here's another factor that nobody seems to mention:Even a few years ago, when a cop pulled a motorist over, the cop then pulled in behind the motorist on the shoulder of the road.These days, every time I see a cop-stop, the police vehicle is parked catawampus across the right traffic lane...

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That cheap k-cup type single cup coffee maker I bought around Christmas time gave up the ghost today.I can't really blame it. We used the hell out of that thing, to the tune of usually at least 4 or 5 cups a day. It started brewing half cups a few days ago. I de-scaled it, cleaned the needle, etc., per instructions. That didn't seem to help. The instructions also noted the reservoir could be cleaned by putting water in it and shaking it. After I did that, it stopped working entirely. Probably a thermostat or sensor stopped working right and...

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I could have sworn I posted this the day he died, but a reader asked me why I hadn't mentioned it, and ... well, obviously I didn't. He was one of the great ones. Here, have a video reminder of why.Like KN@PPSTER? Check out Tom Knapp's work at the Garrison Center too!

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If so, tune in to Sputnik Radio at 6:40pm Eastern.Sorry for the short notice, but the interview didn't get arranged until about 3:30pm and we taped at 4pm.Like KN@PPSTER? Check out Tom Knapp's work at the Garrison Center too!

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I'm sure that many, perhaps even most, presidential candidates have never taken LSD.But damned if I'll vote for one who admits it.Like KN@PPSTER? Check out Tom Knapp's work at the Garrison Center too!

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I reported for jury duty this morning. Lady took my summons and told me all the cases for the day had been resolved (plea bargains, I presume) and that they wouldn't be needing any jurors.With a population of more than 250,000, I have to think quite a few cases must come through Alachua County's court system. It's depressing, although not surprising, that few of them ever get to a jury.Like KN@PPSTER? Check out Tom Knapp's work at the Garrison Center too!

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... because it's a great song. And because A Picture Made is one of my favorite bands, and the more listens they get, the better it looks for them. It's an old song, re-recorded for their upcoming first album (they released an EP, Past, back in the '80s and it's still one of my favorite listens).Like KN@PPSTER? Check out Tom Knapp's work at the Garrison Center too!

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Some selected tweets:My warmest sympathy and best wishes goes out to the people of New Zealand after the horrible massacre in the Mosques. 49 innocent people have so senselessly died, with so many more seriously injured. The U.S. stands by New Zealand for anything we can do. God bless all!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2019Michelle and I send our condolences to the people of New Zealand. We grieve with you and the Muslim community. All of us must stand against hatred in all its forms.— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 15, 2019The New Zealand attacker(s ?) killed 49 innocent...

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Per CNN:Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are struggling to halt the spread of horrific footage that appears to show a massacre at a mosque in New Zealand as it was taking place.If Facebook, YouTube and Twitter had been around in 1963, they'd have been "struggling to deal with" -- that is to suppress -- the Zapruder film.If they'd been around in 2001, they'd have been trying to make sure we never saw the second plane hitting the World Trade Center towers.And that there is a bunch of bullshit.Like KN@PPSTER? Check out Tom Knapp's work at the Garrison Center too!

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This is a test post using SlackSocial, a service I just discovered for drafting, scheduling, and publishing posts to Facebook and/or Twitter and/or LinkedIn and/or Tumblr and/or here at Blogspot.So far I like SlackSocial better than Hootsuite, which wouldn't leave me the hell alone when I had its Chrome app installed -- instead of waiting for me to invoke it when I wanted it, it would cover up important buttons with its own "hootlet" link on various sites. Since I only used Hootsuite for specific scheduling tasks on Google Plus, I ditched it when the API for that stopped working. I've tested SlackSocial on Twitter and LinkedIn. As...

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I thought it would be cool to get one of the new Stephen Hawking themed 50p coins from the UK, and went to eBay to see what they're selling for:Not being a collector of fine coins, just someone who thinks it would be cool to have a particular coin, I hoped that the $1.30 price represented a non-mint/circulated coin (face value of about 65 cents US), with the $20 US range being for mint/uncirculated.Well, no. The $20 coins are indeed uncirculated. The $1.30 coins aren't coins. They're "mintage guides" (papers about coins).But because these sellers had something in their listings...

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That's the name of the guitar, not a song title -- it's just me noodling.It's not finished yet. Gonna get rid of that "three on a bar" set of tuners (my mistake) and install individual Shane Speal signature tuners (I'll have to take a quarter inch of thickness off the headstock for that, I think), then decide whether to bring it up to open G or open E when the strings arrive. So far I'm reasonably happy with how it's coming out. You can't see it in the picture, but there's a piezo rod pickup inside and a pre-amp with...

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That's the final line of a story on Android Authority about the expansion of Google Duplex to more areas (and, eventually, to phones other than the Google Pixel).Google Duplex lets Google Assistant make phone calls (if necessary) on your behalf and schedule reservations/appointments. It has a human-sounding voice, but does identify itself as a digital assistant.Like this: "OK Google, schedule a table for four at 9pm tomorrow night at [insert restaurant here]." After you do that, Google looks up whether or not the place takes reservations. If so, it schedules your reservation that way. If not, it calls up the...

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... does "anti-Russia" mean "anti-Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and other religions and creeds which constitute an inseparable part of the historical heritage of Russia's peoples?"Just asking.Like KN@PPSTER? Check out Tom Knapp's work at the Garrison Center too!

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Let me, like Barack Obama, be very, very clear here:The "anti-anti-Semitism" resolution in the US House of Representatives isn't about anti-Semitism, or about any other kind of hate or bigotry.It's about the Israeli lobby throwing its weight around.The fact that the measure is actually controversial is good news.It means that things are changing.Until recently, an "anyone who criticizes this particular ethno-religious garrison state, or for that matter fails to support giving that ethno-religious garrison state's government anything it might happen to demand, HATES JEWS!" resolution like this would have passed pretty much without objection.Until recently, any American politician with the unmitigated gall...

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... where Chris Christie says he'll vote for Mitt Romney but just hates, hates, hates, doing it? Heck, here it is (poor quality, best I could find that was embeddable):That's about how I feel when it comes to defending that lying slimebag Roger Stone.BUT!This gag order nonsense means I have to.That is all.Like KN@PPSTER? Check out Tom Knapp's work at the Garrison Center too!

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Last Thursday, Rational Review News Digest went down. Hard.It started with a "bad gateway" error. That only went on for a couple of minutes.Then the site seemed to come back up, except that when I tried to create or edit content in Wordpress, instead of the post editor opening, the raw code for the post editor displayed.I did the things I could think of (and completely spaced one thing I should have thought of), did some Googling that led me to a seemingly reasonable conclusion (that Apache was screwing up and a server re-start was needed), and contacted Hostgator tech support.The support...

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... is already "blessed."I found this tin cake pan at a garage sale quite some time ago. It resonates like a mother****er when I hold an instrument against it and play. It's like a natural sound box.I decided not to go "primitive" and "whatever I have lying around" on this one.Went to Lowe's and bought an 8-foot poplar 1x2 for the neck. I had it cut into two prospective necks -- one 37" long, one 41" long, because I like prime numbers. Of course, the actual scale won't be nearly that long. Probably 25", based on advice I've received on...

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From the new Raspberry Pi 3B+, running Chromium in Raspbian!The machine took maybe five minutes to put together. But Raspbian downloading updates during initial setup took an hour or more.So far, so good. Next: Retropie and running a Commodore 64 in emulation!Like KN@PPSTER? Check out Tom Knapp's work at the Garrison Center too!

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If You Were on @DougStanhope’s Email List … Mar 23, 2019

The Missing Factor Mar 21, 2019

A Serendipitous Coincidence Mar 20, 2019

RIP Dick Dale, 1937-2019 Mar 20, 2019

Wanna Hear Me Badmouth the Trump Administration on Russian State Media? Mar 19, 2019

Well, That About Wraps it up for Beto Mar 18, 2019

Wow, That Was Quick Mar 18, 2019

A Song You Should Listen to … Mar 17, 2019

They’ve Got a Lotta Nerve Mar 16, 2019

When Social Media Choose to be Part of the Problem … Mar 15, 2019

This post is about SlackSocial, which didn’t seem to initially allow me the option of titling it. Just sayin’ … Mar 14, 2019

More Bait and Switch Price Fraud at eBay Mar 13, 2019

Flowers For Bo Mar 9, 2019

“It’s official. We are living in the future.” Mar 8, 2019

If “anti-Israel” Means “anti-Jewish” … Mar 7, 2019

In the Same Vein as the Previous Post … Mar 7, 2019

Remember that SNL Sketch … Mar 6, 2019

Another (Non-Affiliate-Commission-Producing) Shout Out About How Freaking Great Hostgator Support is Mar 5, 2019

I Think the Next Guitar Build … Mar 5, 2019

First Post … Mar 4, 2019