Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Re: comment modification or Why progress stinks

I got an email from a faithful reader re: the above. Herewith, the skinny:

Hey. Blog comments only get printed after you approve them? Is that true? Seems like that will take some of the fun out of it. But were you getting some meanspirited or pornographic comments?

Well no, but inspired by our fearless leader George Shrub, I am entering into a new era of secrecy and clandestiny. Is that a word? It should be.
But yeah, the real story is that when I switched to Blogger in Beta (in a misguided effort to simplify blogging) I screwed up and changed the settings. Ineptitude: another inspiration via our clueless Shrub!
I am taking the liberty of posting this so that others may know the truth which is of course that only Californians and nieces comment on this thing anyway and everyone knows how polite that population is. See how the writer refrained from using an exclamation point after the first word, "hey"? Also, the only mean-spirited comments are from me, speaking of which, we had a terrible shooting in NYC; an unarmed man, the night before his wedding was shot by police 50 times. In sharp contrast to the former mayor, Rudy Giuliani who tried very hard to make NYC a police state, Bloomberg offered an apology and demanded an investigation. It turns my stomach when I hear about Giuliani's run for a GOP Presidential bid. His one claim to fame was to unite the country in empathy after 9/11. Don't we have higher elected officials who should have been responsible for that? And oh yeah, he's also well-known for trying to close the Brooklyn Museum because he objected to an art exhibit saying it was anti-Catholic. Such high morals from a man who was living in Gracie Mansion (the official residence) with his wife and his mistress.
Yesterday (after an hour-long wait for my semi-annual bone scan) I went shopping for a suitable-for-dogwalking-in-the-winter coat. I found none of course but I did get a ski jacket for Caramel, in teal to match her eye. At least one of us will be warm this winter.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

HEY!!! DAMN!!!!
And, I thought all you New Yorkers loved Rudy Guiliani. But if you don't like him then I don't like him either. He doesn't know chicken shit from chicken salad! So there! HEY!!!
Adaptable reader, city of angles.

Anonymous said...

You forgot me!! I sometimes leave you comments, now I am hurt and will go eat worms!!

Coral from SA
xxx ;-)

Anonymous said...

CORAL.........
What SA are you from? South Africa?
South America?
Gotta-know reader, City of angles

Bebe said...

Dear Coral, I did not forget about you. My comment was a subtle design to provoke guilt in my loved ones for not ever commenting- you know who you are- but it doesn't ever work!
Leftie, Coral lives in South Africa, where the seasons are the opposite of ours and they have monkey problems instead of squirrels. They, like you probably have a Xmas-in-July type thing going on. Flocked Xmas trees?
And you did NOT think that all new Yorkers loved Rudy! Have you lost your East-Coast mojo? Next you'll accuse me of being a Yankee fan.
Also to clarify; chicken shit does not contain mayonnaise.