Truck carrying 3,000 pigs overturns on Illinois highway
"A traffic crash has set nearly 3,000 piglets loose for an apparent refreshing mud bath near milepost 127 (2 miles west of Casey)," state police posted.
3.22.2019
Please don't hog the road
More like Openbook
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security
The Facebook source said the investigation so far indicates between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by more than 20,000 Facebook employees.
And did we say for years?
Quickie
How Pabst Blue Ribbon Made a Whiskey - PBR Whiskey 'Aged 5 Seconds' Launches This Summer
"If it touches wood, it's a whiskey." We literally aged it in a barrel for five seconds so we have the ability to call it what it is, which is whiskey.
3.18.2019
Imagine our relief
Beto O'Rourke says nothing in his past will hinder 2020 run
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke told supporters Sunday that he's never taken LSD ...
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You are not living up to Facebook's expectations, you mopes
Facebook says service hindered by lack of local news
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook's effort to establish a service that provides its users with local news and information is being hindered...
[Facebook] said it has found that 40 percent of Americans live in places where there weren't enough local news stories to support it.
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Hard to tell if they're talking about Trump or that Beto guy*
"Interviews with some of those closest to him provide a window into a decision-making process that was organic and haphazard, one that involved a coterie of informal advisers and longtime friends and allowed thoughts to simmer before making a gut-level call. It is a process that informs how he will run his freewheeling and by-the-moment presidential campaign, as well as how his White House would operate if he were to get that far."
*From an emphatic no to an enthusiastic yes: How Beto O'Rourke decided to run for president - The Washington Post
And in other political news, I saw that Mayor of South Bend guy on the TeeVee last night (Queen of Terre Haute is too much to ask for, I guess); For the next 18 months, he's my guy. At the end of that time I expect he and 15 or 20 other Democratic candidates will have long since vanished in the snows of New Hampshire and I will still have plenty of time to consider those that are left.
A nearly-two year campaign for the nomination to run for President is not only insufferably boring, it is also the reason money plays such an outsized role in modern politics. I say it's too much and I say to hell with it.
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