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I've seen the future

I decided about a year ago that if my workplace didn't get better, I'd just retire. A week ago, I decided to retire. Frankly, I hope the newspaper industry gets what it deserves. It's been sold out to assholes who have no concept of reality, no notion of what the business was, or why. These are fruitcake nationalist wannabes who seem to think that if you give people no choice, they will learn to love their mundane existence. I think the protests are about to start. Lucky for corporate America, it will have demolished the one set of checks and balances that could have led to conversation, sensible debate and compromise. Frankly, I hope the revolt succeeds. I have all I need. Just don't leave your paper cups in my front lawn. Interesting, how this will play out. The three or four Benedict Arnolds who run our company will find work at the end of it. Eventually, they'll be cast adrift and freed to latch on as some sort of emissary with some social organization. Fuck the

Winter, 2011

I spent the entire summer not doing this blog for reasons that really aren't clear. Well, yes ... the reasons are clear. I didn't want to mess with it. But now I'm back, just to let YOU know ... and no, we will not go into a stupid Contours song from a stupid movie that wasn't at all about the title. So just getting warmed up here for the Big Spring. How 'bout them Lions?