I salute Glenn MacDonald for his recent PopMatters article “Facebook and the Death of Distance,” which confirms my paranoid suspicions:
Facebook is like having a dozen rolling high school reunions simultaneously, plus grade school, and college, and every summer camp you ever attended.
Gee, what’s the catch?
In UK newspaper The Independent’s recent article “You are being lied to about pirates,” columnist Johann Hari claims that European interests are dumping of nuclear waste and other toxic substances near Somalia with one hand, thieving seafood from those same waters with the other, and in the process of committing both of these activities, driving local Somali fishermen into the pirate game.
He doesn’t bother to point out another obvious consequence: super-powered mutant lobsters rampaging through countless bistros, ristorantes and gastropubs across the European continent. Read More
