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In the news recently, two high profile public persons deeply, aligned and identified with a brand or an institution, stars have imploded. Both entities connected to them are running away from them faster than you can say "Five Dollar Footlong." Jared Fogel and Bill Cosby. Jared Fogel of course was a morbidly obese man who lost half his girth to display the healthiness of Subway, only to be shown to have other morbid fascinations (sexual) with underage children and teens. He seemed like a nice guy, amiable. Really not much obvious talent besides consuming less calories than more for a period of time. Everyman. Cosby for years was a cranky cheerleader for Temple University. Temple attached its wagon to the Cosby star. Hoping for reflected glory, now Temple has institutional amnesia after years of milking the Cosby cow. Cosby, unlike Fogel, has decades of groundbreaking comedy and work to his credit. He was a Philly kid, Black, and Temple Grad who had done well. The prep...

My best buddy has a cabin up in the woods 1.5 hours north of Harrisburg. It is actually his house, not a weekender. It is where he lives full-time except when having to travel to his actual place of work. He does his work remotely and I mean remotely. Sprint (now CenturyLink) years ago ran a DSL connection across his street. I suppose it had to mine opportunity where the bigger players weren't vested. Comcast would call it chump change and CenturyLink is rather chump-like. They were the only utility that didn't respond to my repeated "call before you dig" notification when I was excavating my garden out back and that nearly resulted in me severing their phone/DSL line. By process of elimination, I figured out it was them. Sure, I will sign up for your cut-rate shitty sub-par service. I would really like to stick it to Comcast but just don't have the means if CenturyLink is my only weapon. Like the Poles on horses attacking the Germans in tanks at the star...