"What now is the aim of my life? To sit on a rock in the desert and stare at the sun until the sun goes black." --Edward Abbey
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Fun with Firefox
I'm having plenty of good clean geek fun going through Firefox Extensions. Really cool, with lots of potential is the stumbleupon extension. I went to a half dozen sites that I like a lot, told it that I like them a lot, and now it is already coming up with suggested sites that pretty much killed my whole evening. I'm sure the spammers will find a way to pollute this, but for now it's a great tool to wade through all the BS on the net and discover new things.
Sunday, January 02, 2005
So, You Support the Troops?
I've driven over 3000 miles in the last few weeks over the holidays. And a stereotype has developed. There are a lot of people with ribbon sickers on their cars (usually SUVs) about supporting the troops. Sometimes yellow. Sometimes red, white, and blue.
Typically, the drivers are pricks. They pass in the right lane, they tailgate, they drive while talking on cell phones.
You assholes are not part of the team, not part of the effort. You are the weakest of the weak. You are the sycophants. You want to be part of something bigger than yourselves. You wrap yourselves in the flag without thinking. Yea, troops! Go USA! How exactly are you supporting the troops? Did the three dollar magnet you bought (you don't want to actualy stick something to your car) even help a soldier?
If you really supported us, those stickers would say bring our sons and daughters home. We didn't elect him President, but John Kerry was right 30 years ago when he asked: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake."
Iraq was a mistake. Bush is a mistake. Support the troops, fuck the war. If you love Bush too much to actually oppose the war, give some money to the USO rather than buy a bumper sticker. True, you won't have any public recognition of the fact that you supported the troops. But this never was about YOU anyway, was it?
Typically, the drivers are pricks. They pass in the right lane, they tailgate, they drive while talking on cell phones.
You assholes are not part of the team, not part of the effort. You are the weakest of the weak. You are the sycophants. You want to be part of something bigger than yourselves. You wrap yourselves in the flag without thinking. Yea, troops! Go USA! How exactly are you supporting the troops? Did the three dollar magnet you bought (you don't want to actualy stick something to your car) even help a soldier?
If you really supported us, those stickers would say bring our sons and daughters home. We didn't elect him President, but John Kerry was right 30 years ago when he asked: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake."
Iraq was a mistake. Bush is a mistake. Support the troops, fuck the war. If you love Bush too much to actually oppose the war, give some money to the USO rather than buy a bumper sticker. True, you won't have any public recognition of the fact that you supported the troops. But this never was about YOU anyway, was it?
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