(Yes, I cut the last post and I’m editing it to this.) If a troll lives under a bridge, what’s the best way to make the troll leave the neighborhood? It’s not the troll’s fault that he needs goats to eat. That’s the nature of the troll. Trolls are sad, ill creatures that cannot imagine living any other way than lurking under bridges, feeding on passersby, regardless of whether the meat that comes is of the kind they crave. When you’ve got a troll’s claw, everything looks like a goat. Still even with compassion considered, it’s best to blow up …
Month: April 2005
Amidst All That Ruckus
… my friend John sent me an interesting Op-Ed by Thomas Cahill on the Pope. If you like the Pope, you may not like this (link shouldn’t expire), but I think he has a point in some of what he says about the Pope, both good and bad. Strangely, I’m posting this under politica because I don’t have a religion section on my blog, nor do I intend to have one.
Why, No, We Shouldn’t
In my continued effort to work through/cull my Bloglines subscriptions, I have noticed a strange and saddening trend of people seemingly suggesting that we should just shut up. (That is, stop blogging.) I saw it in this post at What not to do in Asia…, as well as in this final post at ξενιτεια. (Boy I hope the Greek shows up correctly.) I can understand the sinking whumph of deciding to give up—for however long—on blogging. I can see the motivation in mocking Friday Cat Bloggery—I mean, I don’t give a damn about other peoples’ cats, of course, except my …
The Only Thing To Say About The Michael Jackson Trial
Then only thing I am going to say about this new episode in the freak’s career is that I think the judge should stipulate, regardless of the case’s outcome, “If you let your child live with Michael Jackson, you will be liable for charges of child abuse; your kids will be taken away from you and moved to foster care, and no, you will not get a juicy lawsuit out of the deal, goddammit.” I mean, wouldn’t that happen to people who let their kids stay with a non-famous person suspected and repeatedly charged with child abuse? Anyone who lets …
It just makes no sense…
… for it to be an illegal act for me to link somewhere. Gag order? Wait, you mean the government gets to decide who publishes what when and where? Why can’t the government be more efficient in getting a jury and case together? Sorry, but gag orders won’t work in a ubiquitously digital society. They won’t work. They won’t work. But I won’t do it. I won’t link, because some tweedyheaded nincompoop will probably find something to charge me with. So I am EXPLICITLY NOT LINKING to this, just telling people to go look around the internet. But of course, …