War on Christmas

I have one huge resolution for 2006. I am not going to use email lists anymore for public discussions of political issues unless it is a private and "members only" list.

Not that I have any complaints or anything but responding to the national homeschooling lists I belong to just cuts into my blogging time. I have to do it this way for time reasons, plain and simple.

I now have a mess of emails to cobble together into one coherent post after I spent the weekend discussing the importance of looking at choice as continuum that spreads to education, parenting, even how we choose to rest in peace.

But, you know, I don't regret having spent the time doing so. A lot of really great ideas are coming out of those lists, it's just I don't have the time to reply to everybody independently --and the discussions sometime overlap leaving me confused as to who I am responding to. Anyhow ...

The site, once again, was down. This time it was due to my switching domain hosting companies; and that takes me to my second resolution. I vow to break all business ties with GoDaddy.com in the coming year. I own quite a number of domain names and at the time I bought them, GoDaddy was the cheapest alternative to Register.com and Network Solutions. But then, he published his now heavily edited and recanted views on the allegedly mild discomfort produced on detainees at Guantanamo Bay --because, you know, it's not torture, it's just a mild discomfort like when you drink some sour milk and your tummy gets a boo-boo. I find the man and his political views repulsive beyond belief.

I use www.1and1.com and have found them efficient. Their domain management interface is a bit lacking but, for $5.99 a domain, it's as good as it gets. Even though they're a German company, I am not bracing myself for any revelations. That's the nature of European companies --you just expect them to have some skeletons in their closet. I just get irritated by Americans acting like gringos.

Another resolution is to focus more on the repressive uses of technology. You think that Bush's wiretapping of citizens is an outrage? The you obviously have no idea how privacy and freedom are being turned into an emerging industry in this country, and especially after September 11.

Of course, I will be focusing on impeachment. Please remind all those 'star bloggers' on the blogosphere that waaaaay before it was fashionable to talk about impeachment, people like me and Morgaine Swann were not just talking about it but strongly advocating it in our blogs. What were we called by certain liberal bloggers? Impractical, too far to the left.

Riiiiight.

This takes me to another resolution: I am doing a serious pruning of my blogroll. You don't give me the love even after I ask you?

[Expletive deleted due to the Secular Humanist Holidays].

My blogroll is coming back. It was possesed during the previous incantation. Which reminds me : I have been meaning to do some serious updating with linkbacks to people showing the love. If you have me on your blogroll and you want the love back, please leave a comment here.

Last, at least for now : I vow to have people like Samuel Alito run out of the judiciary. I swear, the man makes Machiavelli look like an amateur. He would have been real at home working for Pinochet. So what's going to be part of my holiday reading? The cornucopia of NARA - National Archives - Records Pertaining to Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

Because, you know, it's the secular humanist holidays. We need to have a reason for being depressed.

And that's it for now.

I have two hairless monkies waiting for me to take them to a date with the dinosaurs today. Blog you later.