Just when I’m starting to give up hope, the Internet totally cheers me up.
I don’t know what it was about today… I think it was this video of Helen Thomas questioning the Bush administration press secretary (the job title is actually “spokesliar”) about the fact that we obviously tortured a whole bunch of people, and the actual admission of President Bush that he did torture people even though he maintained all of that “we do not torture” rhetoric.
It just… hit me. I live in a police state. We can be arrested at any time and tortured. We don’t respect international human rights agreements. So much for being the free world.
So I’m at work and on my lunch I check Reddit. Guess what?
Redditors set up a fund to buy flowers for Helen Thomas for being the only reporter with the balls to stand up to Bush Administration lies.
Guess how much money they raised in about 24 hours? Almost $3,500. And on my entire drive to work I was fuming about it and wanting so bad to write her a letter saying thanks for being the only person to stand up and say:
“THIS IS A LIE. YOU ARE LYING.”
Hitler was totally right…repeat something enough and people take it as fact. I wonder if the press secretary knows that she’s lying… or if that kind of institutional doublethink isn’t actually doublethink at all it’s just people who are complete and utter idiots.
But thank you, Reddit, and thank you, The Internet, for rewarding voices that speak out.
I really wanted to read about this and I have a sinking feeling of “oh… my voice recognition system doesn’t work” and then I was like “wait… it does!”
I’m really happy with my new headset. It looked kind of flimsy and crappy, but it it takes up so much less space than my older one and will be so much easier to jam in my carry-on when I go to New York this summer. In my youth, I would overpack to beat the band, but these days I would be fine with just jeans, a T-shirt, and my laptop. And that’s really all I’m taking.
So I started a new television series tonight. I had downloaded the first season of the X-Files ages ago when Alex (and a bunch of other people) said it was great, but I had just finished Star Trek deep space nine. I don’t know why… it takes me about four or five months to kind of get over the emotional attachment I have to characters from one multi-season television show and start getting into others.
I really liked the first episode of the X-Files. It should be interesting. And Jesus, it’s got to have more character development than Star Trek Voyager.
Zomg today my copy of High-Rise showed up. It’s the only Ballard novel that I haven’t read (that I have been wanting to read for ages). I read this rumor on IMDB that they were going to make it into a movie, but all the rumors were from the beginning of 2007 so I don’t know it it’s going to happen. But I thought I might as well read the book. I mean, I could die tomorrow and I would never read High-Rise so I really want to read it. It’s crisp, glossy cover is in my hot little hands and I’m going to go devour it.
