Category Archives: Rants

Blog

Just for the record, the word Blog is an abomination before God and all his little sisters. I dislike it in the strongest possible way. Its sound strips away every connotation and nuance one wants it to convey – there is no prose in it, no music, no literature, no philosophy. It sounds like a less serious form of webserver logfile. It sounds like a euphemism. It is onomatapaeic in a bad way. It sounds like a badly typed hairball. I can’t take it seriously, but it isn’t funny.

Ok, so I don’t have an alternative easy to digest four-letter word for this thing that the unsavvy masses can come to grips with. My question is, do we really need one so badly that we’ll gladly embrace Blog?

finals

Apparently, they are going to execute Tookie Williams. Barring some last-minute reprieve or pardon, the founder of the Crips (named so because an early incarnation of the gang carried canes, and hence were referred to as “cripples”, shortened to “crips”) will die by lethal injection.

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