SHAMWOW

If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you may have noticed it's been slowly dying over the past couple months due to my inability to update. There are a few reasons for this:

1) I've become a lot more politically radical over the last one or two years. Read some of my entries back in 2008-2009, and I'm sure it's all nothing but Repub-Dem tit-for-tat circlejerking. Now, there's nothing I despise more. I can barely watch Maddow and the Daily Show anymore. Even Olbermann's self-righteous douchebaggery was getting on my nerves by the time Current canned him. Democrats limit the discussion. We can kindly shake our fingers at Obama for being worse than Bush on war and civil liberties, but take no step farther, we still need to vote for him because LESSER OF TWO EVILS LOL. When both candidates do the exact same things, Obama stops being the "lesser of two evils." It honestly reminds me of how people treated Reagan, everyone was too enamored with his charm and charisma to actually check his facts. My reading has expanded, I've been reading a ton of Chomsky and Zinn and Orwell and even some of the old school anarchists. And that means I'm now afraid of typing out my real opinions on the internet. I'm not an anarchist, but simply possessing anarchist literature is enough to justify a raid. Social networks and blogs are now being constantly monitored, and a massive spy center to house this information is currently being built in Utah. I can't confirm, but a friend told me recently that by simply following Wikileaks on twitter, you're put on a terrorist watch list. And it wouldn't even surprise me if it's true, since the U.S. government considers Julian Assange and Wikileaks to be an "enemy of the state" -- the very status reserved for al Qaeda and the Taliban. I want to limit what I say on the internet because it's being monitored and it scares me.

2) I feel like I've said everything that needs to be said. I feel like I'm just repeating myself, or reposting news stories and giving an angry opinion about it, like an amateur Glenn Greenwald. It got kind of boring, and I felt like I was yelling into a mine shaft.

3) I did this to vent. That was this blog's only purpose. Since making a tumblr, I've found an entire community of people who I'm politically in line with, and it's made me much less frustrated knowing that there are others who are just as far left as I am. I didn't know they existed. Being active in that internet community and having discussions with them has given me breathing space, and it's been slowly replacing this over the last year or two.

I'm sorry, I know when I first made that tumblr I said it wasn't going to replace this blogspot, but I guess I lied. Don't fret, because I still have an internet presence, here's that infamous tumblr that killed this blog (just replace "blogspot" with "tumblr" in the URL up there). If you only tuned into this blog for interesting news stories that you may not have heard about otherwise, then I just recently made another tumblr dedicated solely to reposting those stories. I'm also on twitter now, but I still think it's pretty stupid so I don't take it seriously, I devote most of it to yelling at politicians' tweets and retweeting leftist propaganda. That's a good way to avoid the terrorist watch list.

This blog had a good run, and I'm very proud of it. It was a helluva lot better than that livejournal I kept in high school, jesus.