Dang. Some days you can win without even trying.
Take yesterday for example. I get to move to the cube with a view and I get mentioned on another blog. Not just any other blog mind you, but on “The Debate†by Emily Messner. “The Debate†is basically a blog on the Post that talks about what bloggers are saying about key articles on the Post.com. My visitor count is already just below my daily average, and I’m late with my first post. Amazing what a little good publicity will do.
Along those lines I should thank the folks over at BlackWhite.com for their not so nice words, and to the Bohemian Delilah for her nicer words.
Back to the whole immigration thing for just a minute. This is not going to be something that can get worked out in a single piece of bi-partisan drivel masquerading as a reform bill. AlaskaMike has part of it right (even if he thinks you spell ‘Third’ with 2 r’s) that it is a long expensive process to become a citizen. That may be a hindrance to some of the illegal immigrants, but I kind of doubt that it is why they are here illegally in the first place. Robert Samuelson is closer to the target, but I still can’t believe that a mass amnesty program is doing anything more than asking for problems, and more illegal immigrants. I do think that ‘guest worker’ is a nice way of saying under-paid-and-not-on-the-books. I saw a lot of that on the farms where I grew up after the black population decided that sharecropping was not the preferred lifestyle. All it does is drive down working wages and increase racial tension in the area.
We need to enforce the laws that are already on the books before we begin to add new ones. Who knows, if we enforce the current structure we might not need anything drastic done to the legal codes.
On to other drivel. Why do we focus so much on things like Katie Couric getting a new job? Or Jennifer/Brad/Angelina? Or Jen/Ben/Jen? Is it because we are so bored with our own lives? It amazes me how wrapped up in this kind of thing Americans can get when it’s not that much different from what goes on in our own neighborhoods. People get new jobs everyday. Married people cheat on spouses, get divorced, move in with the new sex partner, and have a new batch of kids all the time. Is the reason we care more about celebrity lives than our neighbors because they are rich, or because they are famous? Will someone please explain that to me?
Like swapping sex for rent is anything new. People swap sex for lots of things; dinner, movies, concerts, sporting events — oh wait. That’s called dating. Never mind.
More later.
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