The unordered list has a storied history in blogdom, as does random bitching, so here I give you my bid for inclusion in the annals of history. Also, I don’t really have time for the well-written, well researched post these days, plus I fear that my boring working environment may be killing my brain, so expect me to be hitting ‘publish’ instead of ’save’ more often from now on. Fair warning.
- Soccer, Football, Footie, Futból, whatever you call it, I don’t care. Oh, you say it promotes international unity and ZZzzzzz. I don’t care. True, the rules are admirably simple compared to most American sports; but why is it that people assume I’m supposed to like soccer even though I don’t enjoy watching football, baseball, basketball, hockey, golf, softball, or any other sport involving moving an object from place to place? I just don’t enjoy it. Incorporate this into your worldview and move the fuck on.
- Terrorists. McDonald’s and R.J. Reynolds will each kill more people this year than all the world’s terrorists have since the modern media created them. It is terrible that anyone must die due to another person being so warped that they place a lower value on human life than they do on some other goal. This holds true whether that villain is a religious extremist, a corporate CEO, or an American president. But terrorists hold no patent on callous disregard of life, and their stated goal is to inspire fear. Their victims should be mourned, they should be brought to justice, but they should otherwise be resoundingly ignored.
- How close to insolvency the [movie | music | TV | bandwidth | aerospace] industry is. Good! That’ll teach the indolent bastards to innovate more and lobby less. Fuckers.
- How great you think Vox is. If I don’t get to play with the shiny new toy, then kindly shut up about it. I’m currently involved in a couple of private betas, and yet somehow I manage to hold conversations on other topics.
And last, briefest, and certainly not least:
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awesome post man… I agree with you 99.9% (I have no clue who Amanada Congdon is)
Consider yourself lucky. I was only vaguely aware of her until last week, and now she seems to be mentioned everywhere I turn.
Also: Yay! Comments do actually work. I was beginning to have doubts.
I think people (and by people, I mean me) hate comments on blogs because it takes special effort to track replies to your comments… the only reason, for instance, I found your reply to my comment is because I wanted to give a friend of mine a link to this post so I had to open it in my browser to check if it was really the one I wanted…
you should implement either ’subscribe by email’ or RSS feed for comments (maybe on a per-post basis?)
crap. I just noticed that you do have that. hrmph…
Comes default with wordpress these days. Fully compatible with CoComment, as well. I hear what you’re saying, though; that’s the main reason I don’t comment on other people’s blogs much either.