I've received some very nice comments about what I've done here in Knews Not News, and it has taught me the value of this kind of writing. I wish I had the time to do it justice. There certainly is a market for this. But...
The options for continuing this blog are clear: rearrange my schedule to permit continuation, redesign on a different platform, more content, steady updating, guest posting, create a destination. All excellent suggestions and very appreciated. But I unfortunately don't have that last critical element that is required for this blog: hours 25 and 26 packed into a regular 24 hour day.
I will be taking those suggestions, just not for this vehicle. My other blog, Turning Springs, will utilize most of the suggestions I've received about this blog in the coming year. And I'll continue to highlight some of the weirdness I encounter in my journey through life in a section of the Turning Springs updates called The Wind-Up. So it's not all the way gone.
But, as Yogi Berra said,"It ain't over till it's over." And Knews Not News is. Thanks for reading.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Is This Working for You?
At the beginning of the year, one of the things I promised myself was to review Knews Not News to determine whether it was worth it to the readers to keep it going.
So do me a favor: review some of the past posts and let me know if the snarkfest is working for you. Bad or good, let me know in the comments for this post, but let me know soon. I'll make the decision February 15th whether to adios this blog and save us all some time or keep pointing and scoffing.
Thanks!
So do me a favor: review some of the past posts and let me know if the snarkfest is working for you. Bad or good, let me know in the comments for this post, but let me know soon. I'll make the decision February 15th whether to adios this blog and save us all some time or keep pointing and scoffing.
Thanks!
Monday, November 14, 2011
We Knew We Weren't Alone
We here at Knews Not News were raised on certain rules in our formative years. One of those rules was that honesty isn't just the best policy but the only policy in the majority of situations we would encounter in life. If you're embarrassed or could be charged by a truthful account of your behavior, you're doing it wrong, whatever it is. And it needs to be fixed. ASAP.
Such a desire for decent behavior is a frequent motivator for many of our previous posts. We know, much more money can be made acting like jerks, but it's our lance and we can point it where we want, thank you. So we ride off again. But on this issue we are not alone.
Al Lewis of the Wall Street Journal asks the question The Truth, Your Honor? in his column for November 13. It's a question we have long demanded an answer to: how do we stop any crime from happening over and over again if 1) there is no open and personally identified recognition of guilt and 2) the penalties/remedies provided are easily reached?
It's a question we've often wondered while driving. Someone who can afford an SUV roughly the size of a dump truck can afford a triple-digit speeding ticket much more easily than someone who makes considerably less money. A setback like that can be met with a shrug instead of the questions "how am I going to make the rent?" or "what am I going to feed my children?" It's an uneven burden, but we know the poor aren't going to get a pass from anything because they're poor. No lobbyists, you know. And we get that. But the wrong-doer in traffic violations can at least be identified.
But not, as Mr. Lewis explains in the column linked above, if your crime is part of the 2008 ham-stringing of the United States economy.
But they should be identified. Someone, at some early point in this financial disaster, said, "Yes, let's do this" or "Okay, go ahead." Someone did. And it wasn't some communally designated flunky who can't even take their lunch without permission from a higher-up. It was someone with a big office and a big paycheck and enough authority to set a plan in motion that earned millions of dollars for the company and wrecked the US economy and millions of lives in the process. Someone took credit for this. Someone got the big bonus for the increase in the bottom line. And someone is protecting them, even while the US economy continues to founder. We, including Mr. Lewis, we imagine, would like to know those names. So we ask again, because no one in business or government will tell us.
Please.
Such a desire for decent behavior is a frequent motivator for many of our previous posts. We know, much more money can be made acting like jerks, but it's our lance and we can point it where we want, thank you. So we ride off again. But on this issue we are not alone.
Al Lewis of the Wall Street Journal asks the question The Truth, Your Honor? in his column for November 13. It's a question we have long demanded an answer to: how do we stop any crime from happening over and over again if 1) there is no open and personally identified recognition of guilt and 2) the penalties/remedies provided are easily reached?
It's a question we've often wondered while driving. Someone who can afford an SUV roughly the size of a dump truck can afford a triple-digit speeding ticket much more easily than someone who makes considerably less money. A setback like that can be met with a shrug instead of the questions "how am I going to make the rent?" or "what am I going to feed my children?" It's an uneven burden, but we know the poor aren't going to get a pass from anything because they're poor. No lobbyists, you know. And we get that. But the wrong-doer in traffic violations can at least be identified.
But not, as Mr. Lewis explains in the column linked above, if your crime is part of the 2008 ham-stringing of the United States economy.
But they should be identified. Someone, at some early point in this financial disaster, said, "Yes, let's do this" or "Okay, go ahead." Someone did. And it wasn't some communally designated flunky who can't even take their lunch without permission from a higher-up. It was someone with a big office and a big paycheck and enough authority to set a plan in motion that earned millions of dollars for the company and wrecked the US economy and millions of lives in the process. Someone took credit for this. Someone got the big bonus for the increase in the bottom line. And someone is protecting them, even while the US economy continues to founder. We, including Mr. Lewis, we imagine, would like to know those names. So we ask again, because no one in business or government will tell us.
Please.
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