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urocyonAfter filling out the slightly amusing questionnaire at humanforsale.com (mentioned by winged elf), it seems that I'm worth $2,425,890.00, dental cavities and all. Half a brain must count for something, by their formula. I was a bit surprised to find that there was no difference in the result when I checked "White" instead of "Other". (Yes, I was bored.)
It's been a strangely dull day, with the constant war reporting settling in like a toothache. I don't understand how my dad can sit and channel-surf through the looping coverage without gibbering. No, he just feels the need, every half hour or so, to give everyone else in the house his condensed version of the "news", heavily interspersed with rather cryptic but biting comments. I hate to think what cranky messages he's composing right now, and I've been accused of going overboard myself! I'm not even sure if he didn't have any classes today or if he stayed home to watch television and get even more worked up.
Frankly, I've been avoiding going off on tirades here because I don't need to get myself any more worked up, either. It's not only that everything has been said, and likely expressed with more elegance than I could manage right now. I have to say, though, that I am extremely tired of being confused with my (sometimes not-quite-) elected government officials. Only one of my Congresscritters is at all likely to do what I want; besides his showing a rare degree of competence, this is mainly a coincidence of views. While Mr. Boucher may be one of the few vocal proponents of fair use doctrine, he's hardly controlling foreign policy. Yes, this sounds absurd in a point-out-the-obvious sort of way, but there's more general absurdity than abdication of responsibility from this end, from what I can tell. (I'll certainly admit that I'm never likely to know half of what I want or need to.) And abdication of responsibility is one of the main charges I am seeing levelled at us citizens, aside from the shriller-than-usual cries of Gratuitous Americanness. This has not been as big a problem some places I frequent online, but I am still horribly tired of hearing it, and am still appalled at the needless rudeness some people seem to need to throw around. Commenting as much as you like on other people's governments is expected, but veering into personal attacks based on nationality is something I'd have thought people would have learned not to do before they started school. This falls within the domain of simple manners. (As my 7th-grade choral teacher kept yelling at some little monsters, "You just don't do that!") There is also the matter of kicking people while they're down. I'm not even addressing the underlying thoughts; think whatever you like, but please do give some consideration before you speak. Again, this is normal courtesy.
Ah, the first mini-rant...I can't really say it helped clear my thoughts, which is not too surprising, as it could be summed up as "Some terribly ill-mannered people get on my nerves". Hardly a revelation; that's been a recurrent theme for probably 25 years. Couldn't even quite slip into the proper porcupine/wolverine persona today. :) It's been an antihistamines and aspirin sort of day, anyway; perhaps I can blame it on that.
It's been a strangely dull day, with the constant war reporting settling in like a toothache. I don't understand how my dad can sit and channel-surf through the looping coverage without gibbering. No, he just feels the need, every half hour or so, to give everyone else in the house his condensed version of the "news", heavily interspersed with rather cryptic but biting comments. I hate to think what cranky messages he's composing right now, and I've been accused of going overboard myself! I'm not even sure if he didn't have any classes today or if he stayed home to watch television and get even more worked up.
Frankly, I've been avoiding going off on tirades here because I don't need to get myself any more worked up, either. It's not only that everything has been said, and likely expressed with more elegance than I could manage right now. I have to say, though, that I am extremely tired of being confused with my (sometimes not-quite-) elected government officials. Only one of my Congresscritters is at all likely to do what I want; besides his showing a rare degree of competence, this is mainly a coincidence of views. While Mr. Boucher may be one of the few vocal proponents of fair use doctrine, he's hardly controlling foreign policy. Yes, this sounds absurd in a point-out-the-obvious sort of way, but there's more general absurdity than abdication of responsibility from this end, from what I can tell. (I'll certainly admit that I'm never likely to know half of what I want or need to.) And abdication of responsibility is one of the main charges I am seeing levelled at us citizens, aside from the shriller-than-usual cries of Gratuitous Americanness. This has not been as big a problem some places I frequent online, but I am still horribly tired of hearing it, and am still appalled at the needless rudeness some people seem to need to throw around. Commenting as much as you like on other people's governments is expected, but veering into personal attacks based on nationality is something I'd have thought people would have learned not to do before they started school. This falls within the domain of simple manners. (As my 7th-grade choral teacher kept yelling at some little monsters, "You just don't do that!") There is also the matter of kicking people while they're down. I'm not even addressing the underlying thoughts; think whatever you like, but please do give some consideration before you speak. Again, this is normal courtesy.
Ah, the first mini-rant...I can't really say it helped clear my thoughts, which is not too surprising, as it could be summed up as "Some terribly ill-mannered people get on my nerves". Hardly a revelation; that's been a recurrent theme for probably 25 years. Couldn't even quite slip into the proper porcupine/wolverine persona today. :) It's been an antihistamines and aspirin sort of day, anyway; perhaps I can blame it on that.
