Letter to the Editor -- misspelled my name!

Well, I wasn't planning on my artical being in the letter to the editor, but I did expect one thing to happen -- them to get my name right! How hard is it to spell an entire letter properly with little-no editing, but screw up the person's name.

That just shocks me. Spell everything right, but mess up the name. You'd think an editor, the top/senior one at that, would get that right.

Letter to the Editor

Well if this isn't shocking. I wrote a little letter, more of an article actually, and sent it to the editor of the local paper. I figured it'd be dismissed about as quickly as any other inquiries to them about business related things. But to my surprise, he replied and is sticking it in the letters to the editor -- and he said it's there because more people read that then the articles that are in the paper.

Well, not sure if I believe him, or if it's just a thing of actual articles have to be paid, letters to the editor don't. But it is surprising that he decided to actually put it in the paper.

Now if it actually makes it is another story.

Teenage stupidity

Teenagers stupidity never ceases to amaze me.

Almost every day, there are a few teenage boys that wander the streets, having mock sex with each other. Their only goal is to get others to watch them kiss and fondle each other's bodies -- even if it involves screaming for "help!" or just running in front of people or cars and doing it in the road.

But then comes the shocking part... they yell as loud as they can any derogative term for "homosexual" to the people that look their direction! But the people really don't have a choice in the matter, look or you're run into them, or ignore the cries for help.

What's the point of this? Trying to re-create a modern day "cry wolf?"

Back when I was younger, it was the people having sexual relations with the same sex that were homosexual, not the ones that looked in their direction. I never realized that it changed. A woman with a child is gay, and so is her husband according to these teens; so are the elderly using walkers. I guess you could say, there's at least no discrimination of who's "gay" in their minds.

No matter what, there's just something about this trend that not only is stupid, but like the men are trying to explore their sexuality, or just trying to hide it from others by yelling their remarks to anyone who glances in the direction.

Yelling the crap they do is almost slander, their actions are most likely illegal in themselves -- yet it's so common, that no one seems to do anything or figures that there's no proof if they did press charges. And amazingly, they do seem to be afraid of the police, mock hump another guy, cop pulls onto the street, it stops. So they know it's wrong, or just illegal.

Perhaps the thing that bothers me most about this is a simple fact -- it's teens like this that will be running the world one day, or at least making the products that our lives depend on.

This is what they call news?

Ok, I admit it, some of the articles I've written in the past could've won the worst writing of all time award. Well, maybe not that bad, but definitely up there. I was young, and they were done over ten years ago right after high school.

But even my worst work was more newsworthy than what was on the front page the other day.

There was a Chamber of Commerce meeting, paper person attended (editor I believe) -- makes sense, they do post items from the meeting in the paper. The entire meeting involved many things, some of which being ideas that'd not only help get everyone a job, but just help out the less fortunate. And there was a mention of the chamber getting a new copier, and news that's been plastered all over the paper for a few weeks who's date has long since passed, with a few items of interest, but everyone that cares already knows.

So what made it to the front page?

Now if you think the "community helping" stuff made it, you're wrong. What did make it was the "exciting" and "invigorating" news of past events and a brand new copier! I mean... it's a copier, and NEW! What's better than that?

I guess I just live in some screwed up place where a brand new copier is front-page worthy, and an end of poverty related news isn't even worthy of the ink that'd be used to print it. Perhaps what's wrong with the world is that way of thinking... maybe there are hundreds of companies and organizations out there working their butts off to end poverty, but the news agencies won't waste the effort to tell others they exist.

No sense re-creating the wheel --- yet

I always believe in keeping things as simple as possible, whenever possible. So, instead of creating my own blog system, I'm using blogger's.

Of course originally this post was just to make sure the it'd work as expected, so many thing to take into account these days security wise. And I wasn't about to hand over a FTP username/password that had access to anything of importance! But now, everything's well, and working. But all in all, the first post is still just that -- a first post, and a test at that.