I have a place to live
And that is all of the real news for now. Now I will get on to the rant of the month:
Incredible party bias.
So I'm setting up my new blog, where I am a fake person, and I get a subscriber. I'm intrigued. As far as I know, Google doesn't know about my new site. I haven't submitted it anywhere. There are YouTube links up there and a link to two external sites, both of which get far too many incoming links for them to possible check out the referrers. In short, I have no idea how this person found me.
So, given that I don't get any links, I track the guy down through several usernames linked to several email addresses and finally to his own blog. He just set it up (funny how that works, I'm now the one stalking him!). I watch as he sets up his new theme (it's not bad looking, though it could be better, certainly better than his other sites) and eager await his first post. What kind of person is my first random reader that took the time to register with my site (though he didn't comment)?
He's a political blogger.
Oh no.
Now, I don't technically have anything against politics or political bloggers. I entertain vague notions of actually being a politician at one point, because they have the most power to actually change the world. Then I realize that to make it in politics I would have to live my life wondering what some pundit is going to make of my actions when one of you inevitably spills the beans on my past when money is waved in front of your face. I'd rather live my life, thank you.
My non-bias against political bloggers remains a theoretical non-bias however, because all of them that I've seen are completely retarded. Waging wars against the "left" or the "right," and never against who they are really angry at! If George W. Bush does something that I don't like, I am going to rail against George W. Bush. If Bill Clinton does something that I don't like, I am going to rail against Bill Clinton. If Fox Corp. does something I don't like, I am going to rail against Fox Corp. I am never going to use the following phrases:
commie left-wing media
fundamentalist congress
any other emotion-soaked fact-deprived phrases designed to get your blood boiling
People, please. Pick a real target. Name names. Yes, it means that you have to do research. You'll have to see who actually sponsored that bill instead of blaming the most visible person in a leadership role. Doing research is good for you. It makes it harder for me to call you a retard.
Note that I didn't say whether this person was a bush-hating leftist hippie or a fundamentalist moral activist. It doesn't matter. Both sides need to realize that life is not some endless war between two ideologies that the entire world subscribes to. There is gray, if only because everyone is a mixture of black and white ideas. I'm sure that for any of you out there I can find one issue that we agree on and one we disagree on.
Blarg!!!
I move in tomorrow night. If any of you were here I'd ask for help.
Incredible party bias.
So I'm setting up my new blog, where I am a fake person, and I get a subscriber. I'm intrigued. As far as I know, Google doesn't know about my new site. I haven't submitted it anywhere. There are YouTube links up there and a link to two external sites, both of which get far too many incoming links for them to possible check out the referrers. In short, I have no idea how this person found me.
So, given that I don't get any links, I track the guy down through several usernames linked to several email addresses and finally to his own blog. He just set it up (funny how that works, I'm now the one stalking him!). I watch as he sets up his new theme (it's not bad looking, though it could be better, certainly better than his other sites) and eager await his first post. What kind of person is my first random reader that took the time to register with my site (though he didn't comment)?
He's a political blogger.
Oh no.
Now, I don't technically have anything against politics or political bloggers. I entertain vague notions of actually being a politician at one point, because they have the most power to actually change the world. Then I realize that to make it in politics I would have to live my life wondering what some pundit is going to make of my actions when one of you inevitably spills the beans on my past when money is waved in front of your face. I'd rather live my life, thank you.
My non-bias against political bloggers remains a theoretical non-bias however, because all of them that I've seen are completely retarded. Waging wars against the "left" or the "right," and never against who they are really angry at! If George W. Bush does something that I don't like, I am going to rail against George W. Bush. If Bill Clinton does something that I don't like, I am going to rail against Bill Clinton. If Fox Corp. does something I don't like, I am going to rail against Fox Corp. I am never going to use the following phrases:
commie left-wing media
fundamentalist congress
any other emotion-soaked fact-deprived phrases designed to get your blood boiling
People, please. Pick a real target. Name names. Yes, it means that you have to do research. You'll have to see who actually sponsored that bill instead of blaming the most visible person in a leadership role. Doing research is good for you. It makes it harder for me to call you a retard.
Note that I didn't say whether this person was a bush-hating leftist hippie or a fundamentalist moral activist. It doesn't matter. Both sides need to realize that life is not some endless war between two ideologies that the entire world subscribes to. There is gray, if only because everyone is a mixture of black and white ideas. I'm sure that for any of you out there I can find one issue that we agree on and one we disagree on.
Blarg!!!
I move in tomorrow night. If any of you were here I'd ask for help.