Dude needs to shut up

I can get as knee jerk as any civil libertarian when it comes to the subject of 1st amendment rights. If there is anything I see as sacred, it is the right of each and every red blooded American to make as much of an ass of themselves as they see fit.

However, Ward Churchill needs to STFU.

If you're not familiar with the man, read this to catch up. To sum it up neatly, the man has suggested that many (not all) of the 9/11 victims had it coming to them because, like little Adolf Eichmann's, they were working dutifully for the corporate machine that spread so much pain across the world. He then went on to commend the "gallant sacrifices" of the "combat teams" that struck America.

The Beautiful and The Damned

I don't have the patience to pore through the baroque prose of most “classic” authors. Call it a character flaw, but I find that archaic writing styles cross my eyeballs. The usual line of demarcation is around 1950. One of the rare exceptions to that rule is F. Scott Fitzgerald. His writing has such a viscous beauty to it that, although it takes me 4 times a long as most modern writers, I will still take the time to be instructed by one his books.

This is a test ...

c0c0c0 is a POS sitting under my desk. It runs, among other things, the latest "stable" version of the Drupal OS CMS (http://www.drupal.org) and whatever version of Linux with which I am currently infatuated. Don't be surprised if it acts as buggy as v.90 freeware.

c0c0c0 is a bully pulpit to rail at whatever has crawled up my ass. This can be anything - you'd be amazed at the stuff I allow to piss me off - but I like to consider this blog a form of therapy that enables me to avoid molesting innocent bystanders.