humour is a funny thing. it's a soapbox, upon which one can say (practically) anything with impunity. a platform for the outspoken, in an easy to handle package. in this day and age, it's practically offensive to be offended any more. historically, satire's been the way get outrage heard without getting shot (so to speak).

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to begin, i'd like to point out that i expect this to get rather longwinded (and probably at some point, incoherent), so consider this ( fair warning )

brijit pays writers to provide 100 word abstracts of articles from a variety of sources. initially, this seems like one of the obvious eventualities of the shape of the future (at least as it pertains to working over the net [or as south park would have it, "internet money"]). then you look around a bit and notice what the sources from which the ( Read more... )