Someone with a backhoe somewhere severed some fiber optic cable, causing the San Diego Free Press, the OB Rag, and dozens of other sites to go offline late on Wednesday morning.
There was no Deep State conspiracy (that we know of).
We now resume our normal programming…
Doug Porter
Doug Porter was active in the early days of the alternative press in San Diego, contributing to the OB Liberator, the print version of the OB Rag, the San Diego Door, and the San Diego Street Journal. He went on to have a 35-year career in the Hospitality business and decided to go back into raising hell when he retired. He won numerous awards for his columns from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Doug is a cancer survivor (sans vocal chords) and lives in North Park.
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Well, good that it was a ‘simple accident’… the Deep State of the 1960s would have broken in to the SD Free Press offices, smashed anything of value, and in general mucked up the office.
On the street if one was selling the SD Free Press paper, or the other ‘rag’, The Door, one would be hassled by ‘freedom loving police “peace” officers’, and hassled even more by ‘freedom defending Marines’… the Navy guys usually asked where they could buy weed…
I like the shirt and tie.
How do you have access to fiber optic cable? Where in San Diego is it available and with which company? AT&T will bring fiber optic cables to the “box” in one’s neighborhood, but the speed is reduced by the cables installed by the original ISP. At least, that’s my understanding. An update on fiber optic availability would be appreciated.
The fiber optic cable that was severed was near San Antonio Texas (I’m told) and is a conduit for the company we pay to host our site.
“There was no Deep State conspiracy (that we know of).”
you mean Deep State conspiracy was not directly responsible for this action — that you know of ;-)
That’s the joy of conspiracy theories, for any form of question/objection, there is always a conspiracy based explanation as to why things are just simple what the ‘naked eye’ observes them to be, in this case, an unfortunate accident.
Less conspiratorial are ‘just-so’ explanations, from the wiki:
In science and philosophy, a just-so story is an unverifiable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behavior of humans or other animals. The pejorative[1] nature of the expression is an implicit criticism that reminds the hearer of the essentially fictional and unprovable nature of such an explanation. Such tales are common in folklore and mythology (where they are known as etiological myths—see etiology).
This phrase is a reference to Rudyard Kipling’s 1902 Just So Stories, containing fictional and deliberately fanciful tales for children, in which the stories pretend to explain animal characteristics, such as the origin of the spots on the leopard.