Press Clippings: Good Morning, it’s Monday, 25 September 2017 and this is the Early Evening edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. Several White House staffers have been using private email accounts for government business. Wasn’t this a big deal once before? NFL teams staged a variety of protests to show their displeasure …
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The Nightshift: 24 September 2017
Press Clippings: Good Morning, it’s Sunday, 24 September and this is the Morning edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. The NFL and the President are in a verbal war over the National Anthem (among other things). This is probably the wrong thing to focus on at this point in American History. Today …
The Nightshift: 23 September 2014
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Saturday, 23 September and this is the Morning edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. The situation between North Korea and the United States is not improving, as the war of words, taunts, and threats continues to escalate. There is hope that a new …
The Weekend Concert Series: Steely Dan, Two Against Nature
The Hunt For New Music When we lost Walter Becker on 3 September 2017, we lost one of America’s great and innovative musicians. As one half of the music group Steely Dan (named after an item in a William Burroughs novel…so you get immediately the drift of the intellect of these two), Walter Becker teamed …
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The Nightshift: 22 September 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Friday, 22 September 2017 and this is the Morning edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. The situation in Puerto Rico is not improving. Power is still out all over the island. It could be months before order and power are restored. This has …
The Nightshift: 21 September 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Thursday, 21 September 2017 and this is the Morning edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. Puerto Rico has been devastated by Hurricane Maria. There is no electricity and it appears that there will not be any electricity for between three and six months. …
The Nightshift: 20 September 2017
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Wednesday, 20 September 2017 and this is the Morning edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed. Hurricane Maria is pounding Puerto Rico as this post goes up. Quite a bad year for hurricanes. Mexico City hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. Over 200 people …
The Nightshift: 19 September 2017
Press Clippings: Good Morning, it’s Tuesday, 19 September 2017 and this is the evening edition of The Nightshift, the world’s overnight news feed (and yes, we’re running late today). President Donald Trump Spoke at the U.N.Today. The Senate is going to try, again, to repeal Obamacare. Think they have a better actual plan than before, …
Who Won?
Paying Attention: The 2017 Emmy awards were handed out last night (17 September 2017). Here are the winners (in bold) and nominees (not in bold) in each category: Outstanding comedy series “Atlanta” (FX) “Black-ish” (ABC) “Master of None” (Netflix) “Modern Family” (ABC) “Silicon Valley” (HBO) “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix) “Veep” (HBO) Outstanding drama series “Better …
Understanding The Equifax Hack
Paying Attention: Embed from Getty Images Equifax got hacked. Big time. Over 143 million (one hundred forty-three million) records were stolen. Equifax is a big credit reporting service (one of three) and this type of data breach is not supposed to happen at a company that deals with such sensitive data. I talked with a …