That’s a whole lotta hate right there

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Bot Alert

I got my first blog subscriber today! Oddly, this same “person” registered on over 700 other blogs that I can find at the same time.

BlondinkaVika subscribed with an email address of blondinkavikam@yandex.ru via some sort of bot routine. If you find this among your blog users, my advice is to delete it immediately and block it if you can.

Fortunately I’ve got my default new user setting on “Subscriber” so this one couldn’t do any damage to my blog, but if it gains access as an editor or author elsewhere, there’s going to be trouble.

Fear and Loathing… Mostly Loathing

As far as I’m concerned, the first half of 2009 sucked. It sucked big, sharp, pointy rocks, and I’m glad it’s over.

The second half of the year started off better, but less than a third of the way in, here come those rocks again.

Let’s get the fear out of the way first, shall we? And by “out of the way”, I mean knock it off already! Enough with fomenting fear among the masses on health care reform. It’s apparently too much to ask to have a rational discussion about an issue that literally touches all of our lives here in the United States. The current health care delivery system is broken. Fix it! The “free market” isn’t fixing it. It’s breaking it more and more every damn day. It was tough enough getting the insurance company and medical professionals to play nice when I had cancer 24 years ago, and their practices have just gotten worse in the interim.

Now a little loathing…

Phoenix drivers, oh how I hate thee. Stop speeding, passing on the right, performing unsafe lane changes, tailgating, etc, etc, etc. I know it’s freakin’ hot. We’re looking at yet another heat advisory today (over 110 degrees). That’s not an excuse to be an asshole behind the wheel.

Twitter, stop fixing what aint broke. ReTweets already work just fine, thankyouverymuch. You feeling the overriding need to fix something? Block the spambots!

Got a friend about to lose her home due to unemployment, and upside-down mortgage, and a raging mold issue (her neighbors have the mold, too). I just… I… AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGHHHHH! Just can’t articulate how angry I am about this.

Arizona’s government needs to shit or get off the pot. Put a budget in place, you morons! I’m sick of your games. Just get your damn job done for once.

And then there’s time. There’s never enough of it. I just get started on something, and I run ou…