Mellow on Monday I am, so much so that it’s now Tuesday. No dutiful dysphemistic metaphors today, merely a congeries of nerve pluckers. Unlike nerve twitchers, which continue their spasmodic meandering through the psyche for some time, making them a significant and serious annoyance, a nerve plucker is merely an external itch. Once scratched, …
I was at Panera’s waiting for a colleague, taking advantage of the black bean soup and free wireless, when I came upon this story about a Blogger jailed in Anna Nicole Smith defamation suit. I’m not going to discuss this case, I don’t care about it except as an example of why vengeance, stupidity, …
To demonstrate the power of blogging, Zemanta, a blogging add-on that recommends blogger-friendly content as you write, will donate its $3000 in prize money to the charitable causes that the blogging community loves the most. Social Innovation Greenhouse / Weber Shandwick has added another $3,000. They Need You to Blog About Your Favorite …
For those of us addicted to the genre here in the USA the answer is yes, but it is an easy call for us. We can call our president all manner of slurs, make fun of diplomats, politicians and their wives, hell even their kids. We can freely criticize religious leaders, religion, and expertly, …
