Furibundum

I'm just being petty and irritable, of course, but this annoys me a little bit. See, I sometimes cross-post over at AlterNet, mostly because I'm a fan of the site, but also because I'm an attention whore . I know it's their turf and everything, but if they wanted to change my title, don't you think I might at least have been given a heads-up? I got no notice whatever, just a surprise when I went there and saw it done. Likely that's where the "alter" comes from in their name. Trivial gripe, I know, but I'm acting a crank today. Probably for the most part because I'm jealous that theirs is better than mine, and because I understand why they did it. I should know better trying to be clever all the time; lesson learned. I can still bitch about it, though.

From my sidebar Blog Breaks , one sentence from a recent post per each, why I read. So without any further ado ... blog roll please! 365 Ways to Go Green "Much like the Peanut Butter Plan, I’m not sure how this is a “green” act, but I’m hoping that it brought some joy to someone’s day and that makes our environment a better place." A Stellar Life "REPORT FACTS and if you don't have any---SHUT UP." Army of Dude "Any junior enlisted soldier knows the issued equipment is inferior to anything you can go out and buy for yourself." Ecovillage Musings "I sit here at my desk, in my home built of reclaimed lumber and strawbales, at my computer powered by solar panels and a wind turbine and wonder if I am really making a difference." Great Minds Think Like Me "These folks are faux Christians, real Christians pray for good things not the demise of their fellow human beings." Groping the Elephant "If you don't have the intestinal forti...

Here's something that has annoyed me to no end for quite some time (again, let me admit up front that this trying to quit smoking thing certainly has without doubt made me more rant-prone lately versus my usual docile self.) Blogs are all the rage, of course, and that's a good thing. That's why we're all here, right? I mean, I read dozens actually ... which now that I think about it probably doesn't reflect so well on what I apparently consider time well-spent. Whatever. Real folks, candid considerations and ruminations, intelligent dialogue (well, some maybe not so much, but usually at least amusing) all out there in the sphere of blogo. What irks me is this, though. These days, you can't turn on the television without some (seems like most, really) of the mainstream media talking heads closing his or her daily diatribe sans directive: " ... and be sure to check out my blog at www.myassistantwrotethisshit.com/ihonestlyhavenoclue ." The networks' b...