sorry_blather unhinged but i found a new website to be addicted to. www.slate.com http://www.slate.com/id/2157840/?GT1=9010 070122 ... magnesium hat Slate? home of that bloated bleary-eyed drunken chickenhawk Christopher Hitchens? ....ewwwww. 070122 ... unhinged i never went back to that website i was just teasing baby i could never replace you 070227 ... raze i am going to break what feels like an unwritten rule of blather etiquette, and bring something i wrote on blue over here. i wrote it in a few small pieces, it got broken up by things other people said, and i like the way it reads as an uninterrupted thing, or the way it would read if the flow hadn't been disturbed. i also feel like it kind of got brought to a premature end over there by those other contributions. i'm not complaining, and i don't think what i write should be any more sacred than anything anyone else writes; i like that it became more of a communal blathe. but i think if i restart it here, i may stand a better chance of letting it develop further, if it has any more life left in it. i apologize if this seems like a self-indulgent thing to do. it isn't something i plan on doing again. but i feel vaguely justified in doing it just this once... 130217 ... unhinged but im gonna be hyper political for the next four years 161111 ... epitome of incomprehensibility No worries, unhinged. I'll rant about politics too! (Less knowledgeably or concisely, mind you.) Which reminds me: At work, the main problem my bosses seem to have with Trump is that he's "stupid." Is that really their only objection? I'm afraid of what his government will do to the climate, for one. Clinton might have been easily swayed by oil companies, as Trudeau the Second seems to be, but this guy IS big business and he doesn't believe in global warming (or at least he's willing to tell people that). More likely he simply doesn't care because it gets in the way of what he wants to do, and he doesn't think it will affect him. Grr. Willful, petty, destructive nationalism and greed isn't JUST stupidity. 161112 ... raze okay, now it's the inverse of what happened in 2013 (which was pointless anyway, because that blathe i hoped would be left untouched didn't stay that way). i wrote something i wanted to be a standalone blathe. i checked the directory and didn't see anything there with the name i wanted to use. but somehow i missed that "the_usual" *was* a blathe already. and i really just ... don't want my words there. it's too jarring for me. it doesn't fit. this happened to me a while back on spilled_milled_factory and i ate it, though not without some grumbling on i_keep_finding_things_you_stole. this time i don't want to let it go. so i'm making a new blathe and putting the same story i just posted somewhere else. apologies for being picky and redundant. 220720 ... raze (how the hell spilled_milk_factory turned into *that*, i'll never know. oh, typos.) 220720 ... raze i did it again. i wrote a blathe that was supposed to be called "startling". but then i had to refresh because of the fucking captcha and it changed back to the fucking "startled" blathe i was already fucking on. FUCKING WHY. so hey. you get two blathes for the price of one. fuck. 220820 what's it to you? who go blather from