I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Bacon and egg toasted sandwich was yummy. DH was snoring his head off, so I got to eat first. Followed it up with a pain au chocolat - even more yummy.

It's nealry noon and i'm still not dressed - better do it now - yikes!!!

Sue

I finally got dressed - now I've got to make lunch - sigh.

Thanks for the welcome, ladies (a few pages back).  I mostly read these days but may occasionally post.  I also don't read every day, but am drawn back to the website to read the latest info prior to my 6 month follow up appts.  It's a beautiful, sunny day in my neck of the woods.  Hope everyone has a great day. 

Morning!

Susie .. I still like rock from the 70's and 80's.  Another band I still enjoy is Guns n Roses!
Hope your finger is feeling better this morning.

I also like Barbara's DH's band.  Listened to a great rendition of Stray Cats on FB video the other day!  I saw Stray Cats in a small club in San Diego years ago .. what a blast!

hugs,

Bren

EDITED:  Hi Belinda and Barbara!

Copied from the link Athena provided on the NYT article.

"The water is now lapping around the ankles of the Murdoch family," said Chris Bryant, a Labour parliamentarian who has taken legal action against The News of the World because he suspects his phone was hacked. Ms. Brooks was editor of The News of the World at the time of Milly Dowler's abduction but has denied knowledge of the phone hacking. In response to the crisis, the Murdoch family closed The News of the World and withdrew a $12 billion bid to assume control of Britain's biggest satellite broadcaster, British Sky Broadcasting.

Mr. Murdoch and his family still own the top-selling daily tabloid, The Sun, as well as The Times of London and The Sunday Times of London. He also has a 39 percent stake in British Sky Broadcasting.

Referring to Mr. Murdoch, Mr. Miliband, the opposition leader, told The Observer newspaper on Sunday that the "amount of power in one person's hands has clearly led to abuses of power in his organization." He called the concentration of media ownership in Mr. Murdoch's hands "unhealthy."

Good afternoon! Thanks for the congrats on the CI, won't know how it works for a few more weeks. They wait for the incisions to heal before activating the device. The bandage fell off so we took a peek and it looks like the docs did a nice job sewing my head back together, although I've got a bit of a bald spot on the side . Blue, makes sense, I'll probably have to forgo lasering off my mustachy area in favor of the bikini area. That's probably safe enough, but I'll verify with the doc before I go and do anything foolish. Last thing I want is an exploding (or imploding) head. 

Athena, I thought of you when I heard the news this am that Brooks arranged to be at the Police Station for her arrest at mid-day.  Kinda too bad the Brits don't do "perp walks."  AND, the Head of Dow Jones in USA also resigned - that's the head of the WSJ here too.  Interesting Times ( pardon the pun!) cuz Murdoch owns THAT too.  It's subscription only, so I get my news from Guardian, and Independent.

Barbara, yum yum, yum - are we all invited for breakfast?

Agree with what RM has done to the Brits.  Margaret Drabble had a very interesting column about it, I think it may have been in the Guardian.  If I can find it, I'll pm you the link!

Athena - it was The Independent -pm'ing the link  cs

I am THRILLED that the head of Dow Jones/the WSJ resigned.  Now maybe Marcus Brauchli, the executive editor of the Washington Post who came to the WaPo from the WSJ after not getting along with that guy, will GO BACK TO THE WSJ and STOP trying to make the Washington Post, a perfectly fine paper before, LOOK LIKE THE WSJ!  As you can tell, I am one of the metro area residents highly agitated by the changes to the WaPo, both online and in print.  Count DH in on that, too.  

That's not to say that I'm not thrilled that Rupert Murdoch and his cohorts are finally starting to have to pay the piper for the damage they've done.  Hope it only gets worse for them from here on in!

HL - I have never liked to Post that much. I get the NYT, which has had a few things I don't like over the years, including too much proximity to government in both Republican and Democratic administrations.

But I'm curious - what changes at the WP have you not liked? I don't read it, so I wouldn't know.

Did someone already comment on the changes to the rules at bco? I would hate for us to get in trouble because people are dropping in with their political views when the conversation here is about newspapers and Barbara's yummy breakfast,

I envy you Barbara. I get Eggs Benedict once in a while but the eggs always look like they've been sitting around all day.

 I hope I didn't ruffle any feathers but if I did oh well, I'll be offline spending the afternoon at my granddaughter's first birthday party, which will be here of course. Family is the MOST important thing.

And the paper paper SMELLS better, too!  Like morning SHOULD smell!  Evening, too, because I remember evening newspapers.  Even our middle-sized city had a morning and an afternoon paper.  My grandfather worked at the morning paper.

Silly Putty and newspapers! That was the best. Of course playing with Silly Putty is probably why we have bc today. j/k

I am still trying to figure out what to do about the fact that the NYTimes is now charging for online access to more than 20 articles a month. I'm an avid online reader of it, and I do think the model of giving out content for free has been a huge negative for journalism overall, but. . . paying for something I used to get for free and can mostly get for free from other site just goes against my thrifty genes. I made it through the years when the NYT put their opinion writers behind a pay wall and eventually they gave it up. Maybe if I stick this out they will give up the pay idea again. On the other hand, I'm going through withdrawl. 20 articles is not enough when you want to browse through like you do with a paper paper.