{"id":280005,"date":"2016-11-19T03:31:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-when-the-pterodactyls-came-home-to-roost\/"},"modified":"2016-11-19T03:31:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:31:54","slug":"roaming-charges-when-the-pterodactyls-came-home-to-roost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-when-the-pterodactyls-came-home-to-roost\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaming Charges: When the Pterodactyls Came Home to Roost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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They have guilty consciences, they\u2019re afraid \u2013 and fear and guilty consciences have a good savor in the nostrils of the gods. Yes, the gods take pleasure in such poor souls. Would you oust them from the favor of the gods? What, moreover, could you give them in exchange? Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom \u2013 ah, the soul-destroying boredom \u2013 of long days of mild content.<\/p>\n

\u2014 from \u201cThe Flies,\u201d by Jean-Paul Sartre<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No one inside the Clinton machine saw it coming. They were whacked from behind, while sitting at the bar, casually ordering\u00a0cocktails\u00a0to celebrate their predestined triumph, as clueless of their fate as\u00a0Luca Brasi<\/a> in The Godfather.<\/em><\/p>\n

A half-million computer simulations generated by Robby Mook assured them that their victory was foretold, a sure thing. They had the press. They had Wall Street and<\/em> Silicon Valley. They had the Council on Foreign Relations, Colin Powell and Henry Kissinger. They had women. They had blacks, Hispanics and Asians. They owned the East Coast,\u00a0the West Coast and the Great Lakes. Even those flinty Cuban exiles would help them take Florida this time.<\/p>\n

You can almost hear the smug snickering oozing through\u00a0the Podesta emails. Fuck every place else. We don\u2019t need them. Those Jurassic States with their deplorable constituents\u2013their Sunday schools and pick-ups, their deer hunts and bingo parlors\u2013deserved what they were going to get (which, of course, wasn\u2019t going to be much different than…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They have guilty consciences, they\u2019re afraid \u2013 and fear and guilty consciences have a good savor in the nostrils of the gods. Yes, the gods take pleasure in such poor souls. Would you oust them from the favor of the gods? What, moreover, could you give them in exchange? Good digestions, the gray monotony of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-280005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}