Posts under ‘Rants’

The Trifling blog is morphing to become a more effective tool for you, my reader.  Yesterday this blog was just the place you went to check the weather,  get stock quotes, and see your credit score; now we have added additional functionality. Notice that the word   f u n c t i o n [...]

1) The pope does a youth rally and 2 kids are stampeded to death, resulting in pictures of the Pontiff kissing kids on the cheek and making promises to visit the injured.
I use a news aggregating service called Newser. http://www.newser.com/ Aside from being a testimonial to how condensed information delivery and receipt has become, it [...]

There are some things that I am good at – by my own account.  Others who’s opinion of me is good have weighed in – agreeing with my position on myself. They are allowed to have a high degree of credibility. Despite my high opinion of myself I must admit that there are things that [...]

That’s it, there is nothing to follow.
The title of this post is a statement not a sign pointing to some larger truth. It is in fact the only partial truth that matters. Succinctly: The News is Depressing. I’m not talking about normal every day depressing news like the kind we used to get back in [...]

OBAMA BLAM.mp3

It’s amazing to me, but Rush is in the news.
I used to be a Rush fan. Not a true ditto-head, but a minor fan. My fan-hood was based on three things. First was my love of satire (I assumed he was a radio personality and a showman, not a spokesperson for conservative thought)  second [...]

There are a few visual cues that always return the same response from me. For instance when ever I see anything on aged brown parchment, with backwards writing and some cryptic invention or mechanism of war; the salivary glands are activated. I call my theory the modified unification theory of reincarnation. It states briefly that [...]

Amuse and enjoy.
Just words, and words are signposts. They point toward concepts. This is where it all gets very sticky because each of us interprets the direction these signposts are pointing differently. At very least this is amusing behavior, at very most it is at the heart of the disquiet and dissatisfaction of a planet [...]

1/15/09

My Space…..MyFace….MyRace……MyPlace

I finally get it. (Why does this most often happen in the shower?) Mashup. This is what the world is coming to. I want to be able to take what ever is in front of me, rearrange it and redistribute it. I don’t want to worry about plagerism, or identity theft. I don’t [...]