And they cried in pain.

[silveradept]

Why? Because we heard the words not guilty. Actually, I could care less. The only question is whether the jury just let someone out they shouldn't have. We'll see how that works out. Or doesn't. Maybe Jacko, like O.J., will do us a favor and quietly fade out of the limelight into serious obscurity. And then we can blame his horrible music on Beethoven.

Actually, today started off rather interesting, as at three this morning, I was woken by a downpour outside my window. No thunder, just the rain was enough to wake me up. I took the fan out of the window and went back to bed.

I look on with great amusement at the SNAP - SNAil-based data transfer Protocol. Runs faster than Wi-Fly, but probably has a greater latency rate.

tinchen asked me as to whether I thought the future was coming too fast down the pipe, considering the widening rift between the progressives and the conservatives, bolstered at least in part by the religious conservatives running roughshod over many of the things that a progressive society prides itself on. Bush Jr. is damaging his ideology as well as his popularity to many, probably more internationally than locally, if the percentages are correct (which they are not - apathy reigns in the liberal camp of the United States). From that, though, I drew out two observations that I think are true - the future is coming, and that often times it is the liberal who adapts and the conservative who resists. If the march of the future is inexorable, then the conservative will lose. that's not to say they might have developed several excellent stalling tactics and anchored themselves in such a way that it becomes very difficult for the future to move them. But like a drop of water on a mountain, eventually the mountain will be worn down. That's my opinion, though, and nobody has to believe it except those that want to.

In a little amount of time, though, the Christian religion could return to its roots - as a cult. What's the difference? Only a matter of membership and purchasing power. Less than two millennia ago (right, we're talking cosmic scale here), the Christians were actively pursued as a dangerous cult. There's always a chance that it could return to that state.

There's still work to do, however. A whole lot of fucking work to do, I suspect. (hauntermooneyes alerted me to this angry_biscuit post. Incidentally, do welcome a few new faces to the journal. Apparently, my cool factor is sufficient that I get people friending me out of the blue. Or maybe they're just in it for the links.)

Comments

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

Comparitavly the keg hasn't been sitting that long. It takes a long time to work up a good boil. Besides people are begining to abandon the people who claimed to have a mandate just a little while ago. Even the guy who demanded freedom fries has decided the war is a bad idea. You've just got to be patient, either that or you have to buy a Guy Fawkes mask and a big hat and go to town.

[silveradept]

Some of us actually realized that trying to fight a global conflict against an abstract concept that likes to work in small units was going to be a catastrophe, but enough people saw dollar signs, especially after Afghanistan, that they went along with it. Now they're beginning to see what happens, but they can't put on the brakes quite yet. It'll probably take a lot more casualites and fatalities that are caught on film before anything moves towards stoppage.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

No I don't think it can stop quite yet either. And dollar signs are a pain,how ever I think a lot of people are noticing that only a few people are seeing the actual cash. I think you're right though, the average viewer hasn't seen enough to put them off their lunch yet. It's not real enough for them yet, they can't make sense of a numebr like 1700 with out some visual sign.