We're a disappointed bunch, bloggers. Perhaps it's because we get our passions invested in either-or elimination events, like American Idol or the Michael Jackson trial. Whatever the outcome, some of us are bound to be disappointed.
At Easy questions are boring, Ian is "amazed and disappointed" by the EC and Parliament. He's also less than impressed by San Franciso: "Geeks are everywhere. Trying to sleep on the plane when your brain is randomly plucking tech words from surrounding conversations is like trying to sleep during a Windows install." What doesn't disappoint Ian? Neal Stephenson's System of the World, which "contains the best Monty Python joke Ever."
Politics is a common source of disappointment. David R. Mark of Journalists Against Bush's B.S. (JABBS) was disappointed by Democrats during the Gonzales Confirmation. He inveighed against the lackluster opposition, then concluded, "But maybe Americans deserved such a half-hearted effort. As the Post observed, only 20 or so protesters showed up outside the hearing room. That's hardly a March on Washington."
In Auckland, New Zealand, Aaron Bhatnagar was initially disappointed by the relatively tiny response from his country during the tsunami. He also wonders, "Why is it that the urgency to assist victims of Mother Nature is so compelling but the full force of Western Civilization is unable to halt the genocidists in Africa when they themselves recognise the depths of such human horror as a European experience of not more than 60 years ago, and understand the need to confront such cruelty to mankind?" Aaron refers to the continuing death and disease in Dafur, Sudan.
From Israel, Ushyman writes in Nushworld of his disappointment with Haaretz (his local newspaper) in their coverage of the EU "Non" vote in France, when the newspaper used "the plebiscite in France as a strong justification for opposing a referendum here in Israel on the Disengagement... Israel... has no business holding a referendum on whether to withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank, because the decision is not Israel's to make."
Immigrants, Yes! Signs, No!Sometimes other bloggers disappoint us. Matthew Dessem writes in his PolySciFi Blog that it is a pity that Powerline sees fit to complain about the signs that warn motorists of pedestrians who may run across the freeway near the border with Mexico. Matthew recalls years of pleasant amusement in seeing the image used to promote a Mexican restaurant in Topanga Canyon, California. He'd "like to propose a new law, the Ironic Repurposing Moral Outrage Act of 2005: Once an image is familiar enough to be reused in an ad, it's too late to be pissed off by it."
Article comments
1 - Ian
Hey dude,
The SF thing wasn't disappointing. I actually had a great time there, since I'm actually a geek myself :-) Hence my frustration at the EC and the SWPat thing. Read up http://swpat.ffii.org/#situ to find out why they get me riled.
2 - DrPat
My scan is sometimes soft-focus, but people can always click the link to read the original - in fact, I hope they do. I pick my citations carefully out of hundreds that come up in the initial scan, because they offer (IMHO) something unique or special, as well as fitting the theme of the week.
3 - Maglase
I am VERY disappointed by Lindsay Lohan. Herbie deserves better.