it’s a mad mad mad mad world
Such a strange world we live in. Now, in great American fashion, you can bet on terrorist events and middle-eastern assassinations. No wonder people around the world hate us. How would we react if there were one of these systems against America? Would people stand by as odds were put on the destruction of San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York? How would we feel if there were a webpage posting bids for the assassination of the Justices, or the Secretary of Defense, etc.?
I’m all for gay rights (which sounds dumb, because no one should have to be ‘for’ any rights…), but I think it’s a little bit over the line to establish a gay high school. With everyone talking about diversity and inclusion, how could there possibly be an advantage to taking one demographic out of the mainstream and isolating them? Next, we’ll be having black shools, hispanic schools, tall schools, fat schools, etc. No purpose. Dangerous.
In the grand style of Reality Television, now you can watch, in the convenience of your own living room or trailer, the removal of impaled objects from the human body. The show, to be aired on FOX, is the latest in a string of garish assaults on sensibility. I used to laugh when I read about such things in futurist novels, but now it’s just plain disturbing to see how close we are to the all-seeing media dystopia forecast in these books.
On the upside, it will take the RIAA over 2,000 years to sue all of the American music pirates. Chances are, you won’t be around by the time they get to you. They probably won’t be around then either. Rome barely lasted that long. Another authoritarian state that regulated and persecuted itself into oblivion. Go figure.
Speaking of things persecuting themselves into oblivion, it looks like SCO is set for a monumental collapse. Licensing? For Linux? Whatever happened to open-source? I wonder if the thousands of developers are all going to get a share of the profits. Somehow I doubt it.
Song of the day: A*Teens - Upside Down
