Et in Arcadia nos.

 Et in Arcadia nos. 

Lede: The notoriously frugal Uncle Albert didn’t turn off his cable when he left Paradise to keep an eye on me, when I was expelled from Bedlam.

At the creation of man: The whine of snowmobiles replaces
birdsong in Paradise. Inside, the whine of CNN replaces
quiet music from the radio of the spheres.

So, when we return to pack a steamer trunk to ship the things he has decided he needs to spend another month or two with us, we can pick up with CNN right where he left off. Not the least of Fox News’ successes is that it has turned CNN into a pale-blue imitation of itself (of Fox!), a series of talking heads talking to talking heads, saying the same things about the same thing over and over again. (CNN is not a pale imitation of what it used to be – it looks nothing like it used to when it was trying to be a true news network with stringers all over and camera crews ready to go anywhere in the world.)

03.03.17