{"id":9579,"date":"2012-09-04T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2012-09-05T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T18:55:24","slug":"programming-note-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/programming-note-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming note"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"For reasons unknown (Red Chinese hackers?), Internet<\/strong> access last Thursday and Friday came in three forms: slow, slower and nonexistent. Hence, no S&G<\/em> for two days. (My outdated Mac at home no longer supports the home page either.) So for those of you — and there have been quite a few — petitioning for an S&G<\/em> take on Prince Harry<\/strong>‘s butt-naked exploits<\/a> at Wynncore<\/strong>, my apologies. As for my prediction of puckering sphincters at the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> in the wake of the New Orleans Times-Picayune<\/em> wipeout, Nostradamus McKee has\u00a0struck yet again<\/a>. Fortunately, in the R-J<\/em>‘s case, scything an entire stratum of long-tenured (emphasis on “long”), highly remunerated upper management will permit the restoration of five reportorial positions to a notoriously undermanned paper. Very few people “deserve” to lose a job — and I’ve lost a few in my time — but this makes a world of sense from a business standpoint, so you’ll forgive me if I don’t break out the crying towel for some of the last remnants of the antediluvian Thomas Mitchell<\/strong> era. We all get the vaudeville hook sooner or later and, in the case of these gentleman, they had the good fortune to be in the “later” category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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