World Domination Network

"How come God gets all the good followers, and we're left with the retards?" - The Violator, Spawn (1997)

I have to imagine that Barack Obama has to be asking him a similar question today. People, in general, lose major portions of brain function whenever the topic of politics comes to play. In this instance, it's particularly embarrassing for them.

Today, from The RAW story:

A McCain ad aired on Fox News channel with the words "HANG" in the background along with a photograph of Barack Obama has sparked outrage after being noticed by a reporter at a local Fox television affiliate.

The zealotry continues today and yesterday from what I earlier noted last week. This is yet another reason you shouldn't open your mouth to defend something if you don't know what you're talking about. On FriendFeed, "nicerobot" has been vehemently defending the presidency of Jimmy Carter, while at the same time relentlessly attacking the presidency of George W. Bush.

In one posting, nicerobot says:

I just never saw [Carter's presidency] as bad as people have claimed. Like I said, He wasn't good, but he wasn't bad. GW, to me, is bad, bad, bad. To me, there is a huge difference in the actions GW is responsible for which make him bad and the issues Carter had which, to me, are what made him appear bad. Simply: GW's actions are bad. Carters reactions were poor.

I'd really love for someone to explain to me the difference between bad actions and poor reactions. Aside from the semantic, when you're in the slot of the presidency, and you have a track record for either one, the culpability and net effect is the same.

Carter has been one of the nation's worst presidents, and George Bush has been giving him a run for his money in terms of fiscal irresponsibility and public relations.

In the Web 2.0 and social media community as much as anywhere else at the moment, the Olympics are a particularly hot typic, and it's brought up all sorts of off the wall discussions. Folks in the tech community, deservedly or not, always imagine themselves an expert on just about everything there is. This has a tendency to lead to tangential conversations and expert-like assertions that have little to no basis in fact or reality.

Leo Laporte, famed technology pundit and highly successful podcaster, quipped during the opening ceremonies: "I think we'll look back at this and say, this was when the American century ended and the Chinese century began."

I must admit, I was momentarily dazzled by the pretty lights, but Leo's statement jarred me back to reality. In the end, they were just a bunch of LEDs. A lot of LEDs, but the same sort of trivial electronic parts I had in my 30-in-one science kit as a child.