http://wordflare.com General Observations on the Human Condition Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:48:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The problem with the media is not just that they suck, not just that they pander to the lowest common denominator, and not just they prize a pretty face above all other attributes. The real problem is that they are proudly and aggressively stupid.  Witness this exchange with Dennis Kucinich: Now, Kucinich ... http://wordflare.com/index.php/2007/11/23/main-stream-media/ I know I've been pretty lax in my blogging for the last few months, but I just have to point out this addition to my blogroll: God:  FAQ I'm sure this means that I'm destined for eternal hellfire, but that's a risk I'm willing to take in a good cause. http://wordflare.com/index.php/2007/11/17/an-addition-to-the-blogroll/ You need look no further than here.  At Quiblit Magazine, I am the Publisher, Managing Editor, Webmaster, Forum Moderator, Recruiter, Designer...oh, yeah - I do the crossword puzzles, too.  And...loving it.  Luckily, I am blessed with people with far more talent than me to do the writing (whew) - anyone ... http://wordflare.com/index.php/2007/10/20/anyone-wondering-whats-happened-to-me/ I find myself unable to vote. Choices: Liberal (incompetent promise-breakers) Conservative (hijacked by evangelicals) NDP (socialist weinies) Green (also socialist weinies, but with added evangelical fervour) Bleh. http://wordflare.com/index.php/2007/10/10/election-day-today/ You crazy, shiny, beeping ball, you.  Fifty years young today. It was supposed to herald the dawn of the new Space Age.  But, it didn't.  That one is still a few generations down the road, if it's ever coming at all.  What it heralded was the Communications Age, when information became ... http://wordflare.com/index.php/2007/10/04/happy-birthday-sputnik/ I missed the fact that the last one was my 250th - that is, if you ignore the 150 or so that I accidentally wiped out in the lamentable circumflex incident. Quite a milestone - uh-huh - a quarter of the way to a thousand.  In less than a year.  While ... http://wordflare.com/index.php/2007/10/02/my-251st-post/ Is there really any doubt? Salaried employment interferes with our natural sleep cycles - where's my goddamned afternoon nap?  It forces us to spend our day among strangers, which naturally induces anxiety among humans.  It forces us to be answerable to a near-stranger, who is quite likely to be stupider, less ... http://wordflare.com/index.php/2007/09/28/working-for-a-living-is-unnatural-torture/ Apparently, MC Hawking has been around for several years and nobody told me?  Find him here. http://wordflare.com/index.php/2007/09/21/how-could-i-have-missed-this/ Nothing stays the same.  Everything changes.  But, you protest, the more things change, the more they stay the same.  Well, sure, but how does that help me to maintain my blogroll? People moving back and forth, deleting blogs, hiding blogs, renaming blogs, moving to quiblit (my own damned fault, that one), ... http://wordflare.com/index.php/2007/09/21/trying-to-keep-up/ Any of you who read Bob Harris's Prisoner of Trebekistan will know what a warm, funny guy he is (and he really is just like that). Bob has a new book coming out - Who Hates Whom.  I don't have an advance copy of this one, but it looks like it's ... http://wordflare.com/index.php/2007/09/18/plug-for-a-friend/