Desperately Seeking...Something

Frm ABC:  President Obama Releases Birth Certificate to End Birther 'Silliness'    Wanted: white male seeks new conspiracy theory.  Must contain unverifiable suspicions about unsavory and/or illegal activities.  Electoral abuse preferred, but will accept alien abduction, magic bullets, romance with Bigfoot, or Loch Ness Monster.  Access to silent black helicopters a plus.  Please supply own tinfoil hat.  Contact Trump 2012 campaign.  Ask for Don.

Excuse Me, I Didn't Catch Your Name

Frm Time:  'Lucas Fayne,' World's Most Positive Fake Customer, Surfaces on Twitter  Just when KNN was starting to believe everything we read on the Internet.  What really gets us is how this kept up while everyone was seemingly ignorant to it.  Shame, Intuit.  Couldn't you be a little bit more creative with your urgings toward falsehood?

Sunday (This time as advertised)

Pleasantly sunny here, but cold, cold, cold.  Time to put on some warm fuzzy stuff and sit in the sun...

Frm Dumb Little Man: How to Tackle Adversity Like an Oyster  All of us have harsh days and bad weeks and here at KNN, it's been both.  But one of the things not mentioned in the post above is to not let a bad experience allow you to forget your plans and goals.  After a particularly bad situation this week, KNN looked at the experience in terms of upcoming plans and found that nothing in the plans had changed.  After that, crap week, where is thy sting?

Frm Time to Write:  Will the worst book ever written become a movie?  Ever watch Lifetime?  During Christmas?  You don't need a horrible book to make a movie.  But having the worst book ever written become a movie?  We here at KNN call that "destructive marketing" then rekindle the warm thoughts and hopes for our own writing projects and leave it at that.

Frm IO9:  In the 1930s some predicted that giant babies would rule the world  Ah, babies.  They smell good (most of the time).  They sound good (most of the time).  And they don't rule the world.  And some people can say and do things that are so wrong that they are denounced immediately.  No concept warmer or fuzzier than that; truth escapes, no matter how desperately it is suppressed.  Sometimes, it's the last thing we have to hold onto.

Till next time!

Wow. Just wow.

Howdy, KNN followers.  We're moving to shorter posts in an effort to, well, get more of more done.  We have a lot on our serving platter sized plate.  But we're never too busy to point at something like this and gasp.  As we would at, oh, let's say, the World's Biggest Ball of Appalling Human Behavior (Covered With Tar).

Frm St. Petersburg Times:  Local governments spent freely with BP's millions  Oh, come on, now.  We here at KNN were all in favor of BP's fund to help the victims of the oil spill.  To us, it represented a significant step forward in the fight for corporate accountability, a good first step.  And then stuff like this happens?  The excuses aren't even good.  "I don't have one and I needed one" isn't a suitable excuse for anyone to take something they're not entitled to, elected or not.

And the profoundly pathetic thing about this situation is that BP could make a legal case to recover some of that cash on the grounds that it didn't go to the people it was supposed to help, which was the original reason for ponying up.  We could see a judge ruling in their favor on that.  How's that for accountability?

Until next time...

Another Sunday...

Miss me this week?  Never fear.  KNN is there for you, lurking in the wings, pointing out foolishness and laughing.  Takes a lot more than a busy week to keep us down.  It would take someone sitting in this chair.  A bald someone wearing a monocle.  In a linen suit.  Stroking a long-haired cat.  Saying "Why no, Mr. KNN, if that is your real name.  I expect you to die!"

Ah, yes, spring has sprung here in northern IL, complete with threatening weather and things growing all over the place.  Tried planting these last year.  All we got was some really grateful squirrels.

And now that the snow has melted away from the swing set, it gives us the chance to try this.  But we won't.  Because KNN doesn't want to spend the rest of the spring (and summer and autumn) wearing plaster pants.  And neither should you. 

And of course, the birdies are back in the north.  Be careful driving, everyone.  Never know what you're going to find marching in the road.

Until Next Time...

It's Sunday! And you have no idea what that means....

Because it's the first Sunday with the new blog.  And Sunday at KNN means cool stuff from my RSS feeds.

Frm Bits & Pieces:  The ultimate tool chest  This is a great site for unusual stuff that you won't find everywhere.  A lot of it (Yep, a lot) tends to be NSFW, but some of it is just plain cool.  Including this gem, which is a reminder that, yes, at one time, patience was rewarded by exquisite skill and craftsmanship. 

Frm Women's Day:  12 American Ghost Towns One of the things that humans always forget is that none of what we know now is permanent.  None of it.  And that the people who come after us will have to deal with what we've done.  And the results of what we were absolutely sure about.  Absolutely.

Frm IO9:  Steven Spielberg's Falling Skies Love IO9.  Anything in geek culture is there.  Including this new Spielberg series.  Are you kidding me?  I can see this project, with attendant marketing, making enough money to wipe out the US debt in a year.  And, on the way, turning me into a drooling fanboy.

But, is anyone else seeing an entertainment trend I'm seeing?  The US defending  itself from an outside threat?  The Red Dawn remake?  The recent alien attack on L.A. movie that tanked at the box office?  Is Hollywood cashing in on the whole "be-afraid" mentality popularized on news programs (both conservative and not so much)?  Conventional wisdom says those businesses have been capitalizing on our fears for decades, so why shouldn't Hollywood?

My questions are should we let them, and, if not, how do we stop them?  After all, I don't have to be a fanboy for anyone.

Thanks for reading!