Friday, May 18, 2012

According to Google, I find myself boring

...and who can argue with Google (my host after all).
Let me explain.  I have this blog (obviously).  Last year my son went to Lithuania for work and he kept a blog of his adventures.  Sometimes when I need a distraction (like I'm on a telephone conference that requires no attention) I'll start either at my blog or his and hit "Next Blog" which goes on some random blog hunt.  Now, I don't claim to know how Google plots a course from one blog to the next.  Maybe it's based on title.  Maybe it's based on keywords.  Who knows?  All I can say is that starting from my blog I wind up mostly at the blogs of argumentative fringe libertarians and starting at his I get to interesting artists (and breathless Malaysian college kids).

Thursday, May 10, 2012

The bully always remembers it wrong

Today's headline:    Romney apologizes for hurtful high school pranks

It seems the presumptive republican nominee led a group of his friends in prep school to capture, restrain, and hold down a younger boy he thought was gay and cut his hair, that Romney thought was too long to be "right".  It is, I think, typical that a bully will recall brutal physical assault as a "prank".  A prank is putting the principal's VW on the basketball court.  A prank is stealing another school's mascot.  Abuse is not a prank, however amusing it might be to the bully.