Now You're Just Showing Off Emma

Behold, the power of blogging...and a printing press:

CHESTERTOWN - A 22-year-old poet from Towson - who can't decide whether she'll keep blogging on the Internet or printing her work with an antique hand letterpress - walked away from her Washington College graduation yesterday clutching a check for more than $67,000.

Yeah, I face the same dilemma every week, it's will I keep blogging, or...Actually never mind, in my case the alternative isn't using a printing press...It's usually pornography. OK, you got me -- always pornography. Unless you can jerk off with a printing press. You can't, can you? No? Are we sure about this? Because the normal humping-cushions-on-the-couch routine is starting to get old. Really old.

Blogging:The New Deadly Epidemic

This may come as a shock to just about all 20 or so of you that read this blog; but blogging is a very stressful job, hobby, waste of time. Really it is. At any moment I could die of a heart attack. Could happen during this post, or maybe tonight as I worry about just what filth I'll publish tomorrow. All because of blogging. Certainly it wouldn't be because of my smoking, drinking, and risky sexual behaviour. No way. All blogging's fault. I'm positive, because I read it in the New York Times:

SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment. [...]

Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December.

I like it, "Death from Blogging". You hear that ladies, I do dangerous things -- like blogging. And taming man-eating tigers. But the blogging is definitely more deadly. Tigers have shit on blogs. That was actually going to be To the People's slogan, "More deadly than the deadliest tiger". I might just do it now as a quote,

"Blogging: More dangerous than taming maneating tigers"
-- New York Times.

Full article here.

My Real Name is Timothy Akers. I'm 38, 215lbs, Play WoW in My Mother's Basement and Jerk Off to Hentai Porn. Happy?

Meant to post this yesterday..Kentucky lawmaker seeks to ban To the People along with just about everything else on the Internet:

Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.

The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.

Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.

If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be five-hundred dollars for a first offense and one-thousand dollars for each offense after that.

Representative Couch says he filed the bill in hopes of cutting down on online bullying. He says that has especially been a problem in his Eastern Kentucky district.

I bet it's a problem. You know why? Because everyone in Eastern Kentucky is stupid. And ugly. Stupid and ugly. Actually, they are more retarded than anything else. Stupid, ugly and retarded. Impotent as well. A lot of impotent retards is what you would find in Eastern Kentucky, if you were ever dumb enough to go there.

Anonymous Cyber-Bullying: Get In On It While You Can

Saudi Arabia, Blogging Mecca No More

A shame:

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — An outspoken Saudi blogger is being held for “purposes of interrogation,” the Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed Tuesday.

Gen. Mansour al-Turki, an Interior Ministry spokesman reached by telephone, said the blogger, Fouah al-Farhan, was “being questioned about specific violations of nonsecurity laws.” Mr. Farhan’s blog, which discusses social issues, had become one of the most widely read in Saudi Arabia.

More here.

Attention All International Development Geeks

Courtesy of FP Passport, I discovered the World Bank’s has a blog, and that the IMF just launched one today. They are worth a look unlike the State Department’s aptly named Dipnote. The World Bank and IMF blogs easily trounce State it in every erudite regard in what is shaping up to be an international institution blogging war. Be prepared for Ben to begin droning on about international development at length, linking endlessly to these two blogs. I am sure my audience was getting a little sick of me just posting whatever was on the New York Times, BBC, etc. websites.

New Beer Blog

The Baltimore Sun's Rob Kasper has a new beer blog. It's worth a check every-now-and-then if you're a serious beer lover.

Monday Morning Links

David Boaz asks pols why the average American is not entitled to the same youthful indiscretions as they are. [from Cato @ Liberty]

Harvard's Steven Pinker has a big list of taboo questions to ponder. Run these by the PC crowd sometime. [Via Ron Bailey at Hit&Run]

Cartoonist Henry Payne channels Gore and recommends "adultery offsets" for Sen. Vitter. [also via Hit&Run]

An older post by Julian Sanchez questions Giuliani's "terrorism expertise", and also reminds me that I need to use the word "cocksure" much more often. [Notes from the Lounge blog]

And thanks to spellcheck for reminding me that I can't spell worth a goddam. Interestingly, "goddam" passes spellcheck.

Little Behind the Curve

When you spend as much time as I do watching pornography; it can be tough to keep up on television, movies, books, eating, etc. My point -- I just now caught Blog Wars on Sundance, and to be honest I only caught the last 30 minutes. That was enough. Michelle Malkin, Jane Hampshire (of firedoglake) and some more annoying self-important, partisan bloggers. Covers the Connecticut primary and the impact of leftist bloggers in handing Lieberman a defeat in the primary. Quite a victory...Uh.wait..How did that general election work out for Lamont?

What I learned:

• Ned has a hot underage legal daughter


• Ned has a hot wife


• I want to cuddle with Ned's underage son(kind of a lie, I discovered this from his website not the movie...Can I get away with this joke? You take a look at him and decide.)


• Chris Matthews knows what a blog is


• There are people socially and mentally retarded enough to describe their blogging as "....a fleet heading towards the death star"


• This came on after Blog Wars and is much better