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I’m getting so sick of people in Western culture looking down on, doing things to save and otherwise standing in the way of other cultures. Seriously, you are all idiots. You, being so open minded, had not noticed that your brain had fallen out. May I get real for a moment? Actually, I don’t need your permission, so listen up.

There are horrible things happening in the world. Most of those atrocities are related to people being horrible, sword-wielding brutes (both figuratively and literally). There are also other things that are happening, not because they are horrible, but simply because it’s the way things work outside of your sorry little bomb-shelter of a life.

Let’s start with sweatshops. Okay, I’ll give it to you, I wouldn’t want to work in one. I also don’t like the idea of people being forced to work until they collapse, but let’s look at things another way.

Suppose you live in a village where you can’t grow anything and you have no money. Moreover, you have no means to make money. None. You are starving.

Does that sweatshop job look like slavery or does it look like your family’s salvation? Stop thinking like a Western-region idiot and look at it through THEIR eyes for a moment, okay?

Now, suppose some dope, like you or Sally Struthers, and says to the world community: “these people are being abused! We must close the sweatshops and set them free!”

Good job. You just ran everyone in the entire town out of a job. Excellent. I hope they stay up nights dreaming of your painful end as they starve and their children die in their arms. Way to go, Superman. Don’t save me like that, okay? Thanks.

Next, let’s consider energy. People in the west are pushing for lower emissions and I think that’s great. Then they look at the poor countries of the world and chastise, saying “how dare you burn wood and coal! You heathens! Do you realize what you are doing to the environment?”

Yeah, they don’t care. Do they have processing plants to create cleaner fuel? No. Do they have nuclear energy to rely on for electricity? No. Do they HAVE electricity? Many of the poorest DO NOT. So, that would be like going up to a toddler and saying “stop acting like you’re three, you child.” They don’t have the means to make it better. YOU have to provide it if you want them to do anything about it.

Finally, wildlife. Poor people need to eat too. If they see something wandering by, they are going to kill it and cook it over that emissions-laden wood fire you just got done bitching about. They don’t have time to fuss over how it makes the animal feel, or if the animal is endangered, they are just hungry.

There was an article written where Michael Lu, President of the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines, was quoted in saying “it’s unfortunate that the locals aren’t more conscious of the threatened wildlife around them.”

Guess what? The poor in the Philippines don’t fucking CARE, Michael. They see a bird and they know they can eat it, so they do. The whole world isn’t like San Francisco, where the bleeding hearts get all the say.

In the end, my take-away message is “stop telling other people what they can’t do.” You all have become so horribly clueless you immediately decide everyone’s fate based on your tiny world. Grow up. Figure it out. Stay the fuck out of people’s lives.

Think.

I finally got around to it and recorded a podcast. In this podcast, I talk about media and doing my first podcast. It’s very stream-of-consciousness so take it for what it is. Also, Fahrenheit 451 was published in 1953 by Ray Bradbury. I didn’t make a mistake and actually mean Fahrenheit 911. I hate Michael Moore. Enjoy the podcast.

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Thanksgiving: A Memory of Tomorrows

Mother bakes a pie.
Father preps the bird.
Relatives look on,
with reverence and reserve.

Bill and Jill sneak away
making to the shed out back.
The dog noses near,
and awaits the time to attack.

Cousins pound upon each other
blackening an eye.
People come running
when little Timmy cries.

Grandpa finishes the whiskey
hiding the bottle away.
Grandma pops another pill
to make it through the day.

Father turns his back,
The dog steals the bird.
Mother goes off to “Steve’s”,
saying not a word.

The dog hunches the bird
it stole off to the corner.
Bill hunches Jill.
He’s diseased, but decided not to warn her.

Steve and mother sniff up powder
to make their sex feel better.
Cocaine is the pain
that always makes my mother wetter.

The family convenes
fulfilled and drugged and hungry.
Somehow people overlook dog hair
that made my father so angry.

I get my gun while they feed their faces,
forgetting I’m still away.
This, my friends, is my final note to all
on this joyous Thanksgiving day.

I want my piece of the pie. Before 2012 and the end of the world and the Mayans and all that, I would really like to spend a couple of days not having to worry about waking up on time to get to work, working for other people and all that. Mind you, I hold nothing against the company I work for. I like the people and the environment is comfortable, but I think I would be a liar to say that I didn’t want a little bit of extra coin in my pocket. A couple million would do just fine.

Okay, Microsoft, I know you have the cash. Out with it. You’re paying Old Man Murdoch, so what about the little guy? Am I not good enough for you? I guess I should be louder and more obnoxious to match Rupert’s troupe of fear and hate-mongering stooges like Glenn Beck. Okay, umm… here goes: Read more »

It was stated on The Art of Talk, “neutrality in this day and age is death,” regarding CNN eliminating advocacy journalists from their ranks, such as Lou Dobbs. Ultimately, it seems, we live in a time when everyone wants to tell you what you think and this is most apparent in the sheer number of advocacy journalists in mass media today.

The claim is, people have a position and you are only neutral if you are dead. In other words, I can’t simply want to know what’s going on around the world, I must listen to someone voice their opinion about it to simply get the news? I hardly think this is reasonable.

I have stopped watching TV, as stated in another blog, and this is the main reason why. I choose to think for myself and mass media has made it increasingly difficult to do so. Not only do they want to tell you what is going on, but they want to tell you how to feel about it. Read more »

I lay on my bed and visions run through my head. Data trees burn under hacker napalm. Worms till the cyber soil and corpses of long lost friends are strewn across the wasteland that was once a lush, tropic of cyber bliss. Don’t touch them, the virus will infect you too. This is the war being waged on this giant network called the Internet.

A mere 10 years ago, the whole playing field was different. People were excited about the new possibilities the web had to offer. Words like modem and baud still floated around and the Pentium II was considered decent technology. We we all so much younger then. Naive might be a better word. Read more »

Yep, nothing says I love you like a heroin overdose. Now you can tell the world with a shirt. I even pulled together a little cafepress Spreadshirt site.

Go buy one already. They make great Christmas gifts for that up and coming rock star you know. Little Jimmy can rock the stage so much better with one.

http://boygenerica.spreadshirt.com/

Note: I originally set this up with CafePress not knowing that they would suck at every turn. I got fed up and went to Spreadshirt. It was a much better idea.

Small and not in charge of very much. So, people are starting to talk about Apple’s “everything killer” but, to be honest, I am not impressed. Just what I want is a device where everything I do is even more consolidated. Let’s make it into a car too, shall we? When it fails, and it will fail, I won’t have any of my documents, music, e-books and so on and I won’t have a car to get me around either. That sounds like a great idea!

Let’s get really real for a moment, shall we? First off, the more functions you build into something, the more complicated it becomes. It’s just the nature of things. That complication ends up confusing the user. It’s gotten to the point where users expect something to be complicated to learn, so when it is simple, they get lost. This is no joke, folks!

Second*, I really don’t want everything I do to be tied to a single device. Imagine if your books and your music and all of you photos and your documents and, say, your whole world were tied to a single device. Think of the convenience! Think of the catastrophe! Gadgets fail. It’s inevitable. Think about the problem people had with the Microsoft Sidekick data “whoops” moment. Needless to say, people weren’t pleased when their contacts, data, e-mails and what-have-you just disappeared into the ether. Read more »