{"id":2671,"date":"2006-04-08T20:26:20","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T00:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2006-04-08T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T00:26:20","slug":"tom-tomorrow-on-dieboldfrom-halloween-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2671","title":{"rendered":"Tom Tomorrow on Diebold&#8230;From Halloween 2003&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Tomorrow (real name, Dan Perkins, by the way) of <i>This Modern World<\/i> was a guest of mine <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002662.htm\">on Thursday<a href=\"http:\/\/www.PeterBCollins.com\">The Peter B. Collins Show<\/a> where I was Guest Hosting. (<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002670.htm\"><i>Audio archives posted here.<\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>After complimenting him on his keen ability to reflect the current zeitgeist well ahead of anyone else, I asked him how he chooses his topic. His answer, paraphrased, whatever he happens to find funny. I asked if he found anything funny about Electronic Voting Machines.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently he did. And, as usual, long before most of us understood the true nature of the threat to democracy posed by these god-awful machines. He pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingforchange.com\/comic.cfm?itemid=15882\">this Halloween strip<\/a> originally published on 10\/23\/03 (notice the name on the computer monitor)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingforchange.com\/comic.cfm?itemid=15882\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Tomorrow_102803.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">No wonder he calls himself Tom Tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Tomorrow (real name, Dan Perkins, by the way) of This Modern World was a guest of mine on ThursdayThe Peter B. Collins Show where I was Guest Hosting. (Audio archives posted here.). After complimenting him on his keen ability to reflect the current zeitgeist well ahead of anyone else, I asked him how he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}