2 Watching Billy Budd instead.
3 Pretty fun and witty.
4 It's quiet and peaceful, a far cry from the madness of the morning and afternoon that was yesterday.
5 I started writing this earlier on a new/rebuilt laptop, but I've yet to get the bugs out.
6 It's a Dell that I got with Windows 7, rather than 8.
7 I can't type a thing on it without the cursor jumping up or down a line.
8 Wanna drive yourself crazy? Work with THAT for ten minz.
9 It also changes all the fonts and font sizes when you type.
10 Bleh.
11 At some point I'll take the time to fix it. Looks monstrous.
12 My bold desktop remains king.
13 I don't suppose there is the perfect computer out there. I have faith in this little guy, but it's going to take time.
14 Moving On, Part One: I heard they made an artificial intelligence robot that ran away the other day.
15 It was on the AOL newsfeed.
16 Which is to say, it was on the Weekly World News newsfeed.
17 No wonder my students head for alternate media for their info.
18 They pretty much know that most of what they read is boushit. These kids today.
20 They seem more interested in conspiracy theories than any generation I've ever taught.
21 They are much more open-minded to things that other generations poo-pooed.
22 Even though my JFK unit was based on meticulous research, I can't help but feel many thought me a lunatic, or a madman.
23 The only person who never did was good ol' Mr. Russell-Bob YB. He and I were continually blown away at how everyone else in the world was onto that story, yet 'Murica never wanted to own it, to speak of it, nor to bring it up in polite conversation.
24 We'd watch the channel get changed pretty swiftly any time we would discuss it.
25 And we'd be boggled.
26 I guess it's sort of like bringing up religion at the dinner table.
27 This year it's gonna rollercoast in my English 2A classes.
28 I loves me making up verbs like "rollercoast."
29 Today's students are starved for the Truth. They want the Truth. They want a sane mind allowing them access to the Truth.
30 Truth is, I'm just a JFK guy. I still move carefully when considering facts.
31 The second I typed the word "facts" someone in Billy Budd said the word "facts." Just now. Happens all the time. I assume it is spirits and sprites. How's THAT for credibility?
32 Just sayin'.
33 How does one even attempt to demonstrate credibility when the roads have suddenly turned down new and exciting discoveries and concepts?
34 The trouble with "Truth" reports is that most of the guys working hard to bring the "Truth" wear top hats and baubles. They tend to look like raving lunatics.
35 If you have a clown hat and party blowers, you will be elevated in the tightrope that is, or used to be considered "investigative reporting."
36 If you look like a jughead, or like Alfred E. Neuman, AND you are accurate, you will be put out there and paid good money to look like a lunatic.
37 If you are quiet, serious, and open-minded but STILL find incredibly unbelievable information, then you are ignored.
38 Al Russell and I have been ignored for years.
39 This begs the question: are we ignore-amuses?
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42 OKAY, OKAY.
43 You must have seen THAT one coming.
44 Oh, bother.
45 I shall state this: I shall keep trying to expose the Man.
46 I shall keep writing things that pass as facts. General rule: If more than one source is a primary source and clearly credible, it shall be filed in what David Emory used to call "Food for thought and grounds for further research."
47 Dave Emory is an amazingly accurate political researcher who recently had some work done on his teeth, so he now sounds like Elmer Fudd, his words. I'm surprised he hasn't suddenly gone viral.
48 Anybody lookin'?
49 He was a disciple of the amazing <and late> Mae Brussell, out of Carmel. Mae had tremendous credibility, researched meticulously, and reported it all to the masses. Thank goodness for Mae Brussell. Thank goodness for heroes who are true journalists. She would be bold, but she backed it with citations and research.
50 I must go silent. Billy Budd is about to be hanged for telling the truth.
51 I'm only a man, not fit to do the work of God, or the Devil.
---Captain Vere, Billy Budd, the film
52 I did not write that. I don't know that Melville wrote that, but this film has some amazing quotes.
53 I've a ton of things to do and need to go. But for those following all this folderol, here is a link to those fun quotes:
54 And to people who seriously wish to consider what Mae had to say back-in-the-day, here's her website, now managed by her family.
55 Dave Emory believes to this day that Mae's death was more than likely a homicide.
56 Could be, could be.
57 Meanwhile, I haven't the time to try to save the world.
58 I have a saloon to run.
59 Have a GREAT day, and we'll see you soon.
60 Peace.
~H~
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