HalfAMommaMea
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Last weekend I linked to an apparently unbylined bit in The Province wherein Mike ‘Cookie-Dough’ de Jong clarified (contradicted?) the comments of his Big Birdness on the matter of what will happen if we return to the PST in the Armagiddeon (i.e. post-referendum) Times.
Anyway.
In the original post I made a snide remark about the bit being unbylined because maybe the author didn’t want to have his or her (but I was pretty sure it was a him) ‘Access To Evil’ curtailed by actually telling us what they know.
And I did do a little due diligence. Specifically, I became suspicious when it turned out that the link to the very political bit was buried in the The Province’s ‘Health’ section.
Well….
A sharp-eyed reader with a very pointy spade did a little digging and discovered that the bit was actually a side-bar to a Mike Smyth column in the dead-tree version of that particular edition of The Province that was not appropriately attributed online.
Thus, the reader, who we thank profusely, concluded:
“…(T)here was no conspiracy in the nameless story. Just poor desking. Which is, of course, part of the conspiracy, right?…”
Man.
The things you learn when you have conversations with people that actually know stuff about stuff.
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And, as I mentioned to our most helpful reader, I do still read a lot of dead-tree versions of a whole lot of different newspapers. The Province, unfortunately, is no longer one of them.
Meanwhile, what appear to be well-meaning folks still want to argue that we have to cut more costs on the Group Home front (see comments)….I now, officially, throw up my hands and wish them well when they fork over their share of our 3,462nd balloon payment on the new roof atop The Marsmallow in 2019.
Oh, and finally…..There’s ‘No Crying In Podcasting!’…(cue Ep89’s 42 minute mark).
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