Unplugged
Your merger appointment is between 8 a.m. Monday and 5 p.m. Oct. 10, 2018: Comcast has decided to ditch its $45.2 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable.
The cable company got pushback from regulators concerned about a single company getting a monopoly on being hated.
Heard it in a love song: The Marshall Tucker Band, country-rock hit-makers of the 1970s, have enjoyed a publicity bump since getting name-checked in “Cruise,” the chart-topping country music hit by Florida Georgia Line.
Meanwhile, the Charlie Daniels Band just tweeted this to Florida Georgia Line: “What are we, chopped liver with country gravy and a side of grits?”
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1970, the People’s Republic of China launched its first satellite, which transmitted a song called “The East is Red”.
The song’s lyrics glorified Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution, but if you play it backwards and at half-speed, you hear “Within three decades, China will make and the USA will take.”
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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