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Ten years ago I spent the winter alone at the ranch watching cable news with my five dogs, the Friedmans. In the beginning I preferred CNN, but the Friedmans became viscerally addicted to the rabid pursuit of Fox News: I didn't really have a dog in the hunt, so I'd go back and forth between liberal CNN and conservative Fox. (That's part of the reason I'm bipolar today and planning to kill you.)
I soon cut off virtually all human interaction and became a 24-hour-a-day cable news whore. I stopped watching the regular networks completely. I no longer read newspapers or magazines. I did not sleep or shave or call friends or go into town except, very occasionally, to get food for the Friedmans. I didn't have the Internet back then and, praise the Lord, I still don't. That meant I got all my news from CNN, Fox, and MSNBC.
I would mute and unmute the TV all day and all night, drinking coffee, smoking cigars, burning wood in the fireplace like...
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