Sort of too pathetic for words (but that won't stop me)
Posted by mofembot Thu, 01 May 2008 09:14:00 GMT
Well, I let the entire month of April slide by without posting anything here. I’ve been busy (the omni-excuse, n’est-ce pas?). I have just shipped off the last file to my current client, and given that it’s May Day (and that most of France, hopefully including my client, will be “taking the pont” tomorrow), I have a little time to breathe. (Especially if I ignore certain, um, chores. But I can’t call any government agencies or businesses or schools today, yippee!)
One thing I’ve been doing is culling some of my comments from the Salt Lake Tribune editorial pages and on DailyKos, with the idea in mind that sometime “soon” I will start posting the “best of.” I’m happy to report that the majority of my Tribune comments get good marks from readers. The only consistent exception is when I share my opinion about immigration. Apparently believing in the inherent humanity of hispanics, even those who enter the U.S. illegally, is grounds for Umbrage (as is, at least recently, the desire to see Due Process applied even for the FLDS in Texas). Anyway, my highest-rated comments are usually pithy one- or two-liners, and it’s not exactly clear to me how well they will come across in a “best of” without supplying some sort of context. We shall see.
Apart from the occasional diary on DailyKos, the majority of my comments are found in the weekday feature “Cheers and Jeers,” and as many of these are of a semi- or outright autobiographical nature, I’m going to gather them together in a personal history section. My other comments are usually short rants in response to Cost of Living & Hunger and U.S. Health Care issues; they’ll get put with the Tribune political stuff.
All of this means, dear reader, that I probably need to re-structure this site a bit. I certainly have to do so with nonlynnear.com. It really isn’t set up to handle book chapters and such… and yes, I’ve been something of a slug about Dying School. I spent a huge chunk of time gathering and redacting material about La Convention (dealing with the school’s legal status) during the first quarter of 2008, but it’s not quite in shape to publish on-line just yet. Still lots and lots of work to do, alas. Hopefully I will make a little headway this weekend.