Link Miscellany

Why bother?  It seems so antithetical to the notion of democracy and the direct contribution that voting makes. How many times have you heard that pithy apothegm that suggests that if you don’t vote you can’t complain? I prefer George Carlin’s version of reality, if you vote you can’t complain.
And who’s paying Mitt for this RT plug? In this latest installment of let’s pick on RT, Mitt Romney laments the fact ck on RT, Mitt Romney laments the fact that he can’t escape this international news network. Really, Mitt?

Now you see it, now you don’t. This may shock you, so, I trust you’re sitting down. Cashless societies stories have been missed altogether by this incredibly impuissant media, well, to be fair, the American mainstream media, which rank consistently as the most detached and disconnected waste of collective flesh ever amassed under the incredibly ironic banner of information delivery system and platforms.