Are you like me in that you NEVER read your local newspaper? I haven't given it a glance since that awful post they made months back regarding unemployment. I gave them a harsh criticism of their inflammatory and accusatory reporting, and in doing so mentioned the names in that article just to be clear. Unfortunately the funny thing about google is that this weblog, (yes this one that you're reading right now!) which I have only the vaguest attachment to (.NET guy has taken a similar haitus and then returned, full of spit about the tools and bless his heart) this weblog has stellar google placement. Go figure. Perhaps it's because I've had it a year. The thing about google is that it lends significance to your earlier posts too. So if you're a blogger and you mention people you don't know by name, you'll eventually hear from them, as I did today regarding my times article. Hey, surprise, people read your stuff. And hey, surprise, maybe I can pick up the paper again and feel ok about it.

So to complete the symmetry I picked up the paper. Not bad reporting on the Howard Dean flashmob in Seattle. Especially covering the dorky aspects of flashmobbing in general. The trend being dead is lasting longer than the trend itself, becoming more of a meta-trend really. And then there's supposedly a candidate to be hopeful about. Of course, after the president I voted for won and was not sworn in, and the monorail and transit system I keep voting for and winning has yet to put a shovel in the ground, and then there was the time everybody voted no on the stadiums but there they went up anyway, it takes more than Howard Dean to get me excited about politics. I think it would take MLK to come back from the dead and run for office, now that would get me excited.

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