Archive for January, 2011

Jan 11

getting concrete about blog practices

off to a rocky start

Last night, my computer was still quite wonky. I decided to reboot the modem since I’d done the virus scanning and defragging. But I had to wait until today because my eyelids were too heavy to press through the short steps. This morning, things were still bad online, so I called in and the recording said the same thing I thought they would, Try disconnecting the modem and the other related steps before I connect you with a human being. I knew that so I can’t tell you why I called first. It might be related to another issue of not trusting what I think I know—a separate issue.

Anyway, I did the technical stuff, it worked and I didn’t have to call back because the recording wasn’t expecting me to, unless I needed assistance. With my IT concerns squared away, I was able to get on with surfing the web reading and networking.

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Jan 09

with a heavy heart

My heart is heavy today. My view of some of my countrymen diminished. My hopes for my people strained. Words matter. Words are heavy with power and we can sling them effortlessly flinging our fury out into the world for any to hear, draw from, interpret. And when these words inspire actions deemed horrific and cause children to die, we defend and justify.

  • The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.
  • I didn’t do anything. I just said…
  • It’s not my fault if he went and acted on what I said.
  • That’s not what I meant at all.
  • It was never my intention to…

Remember The Ghostbusters and the slime under the city? The airwaves, radio, television, internet, have been infested by a virtual River of Slime. It is composed of rampant hatred, intolerance, violence, ignorance, half-truths, all the homicidal ideation, messages of malicious malcontent, the slings and arrows from sad and empty vessels whose walls are lined with mean-spiritedness.

Young people are left to their own devices to sift through this mess of mixed messages to love thy neighbor—except in the instances of… If you don’t agree with someone, harass terrorize discriminate mistreat and ostracize until you change them or silence them, by any means necessary. The problem we’re faced with today is that we have many citizens without the tools to properly sift through the mess of rhetoric to adequately assess and distinguish fodder from fallacy.

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