In Your Face

"Be kind to me or treat me mean. I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine."

I've been told my emotions are easily read. I wear them on my face and often can't hide if I am utterly disgusted by something. I recently had a conversation with a friend who has the very same "problem". She was even fired as a result.

I can relate.

But is it a problem?

I think the worst testament to someone’s personality is gossip. I don’t mind if people want to talk about me, but have some couth and say it to my face. Don’t smile at me and pretend to be a friend or someone who cares. What exactly does a person accomplish by talking bad about a person (be it distorted truth or flat-out lies) to other people?

I’m hot or cold. Lukewarm is for the feeble minded.

I’ve also noticed an epidemic of same-mindedness. Like a transmittable disease, someone says something, another repeats it to another, this time it accumulates a slightly new spin, and so on, and so on, and it goes on infecting minds and poisoning thoughts. People on the same bandwagon saying, "Yeah, that’s exactly it!" or "That must be true!" in unison over something they know next to nothing about. People taking a stab on a subject they presume is fact, when it is really an unjust juxtaposition lacking any regard to the truth.

My sister always tells me to trust first impressions. I believe what you think of a person when you first meet them will always ring true, even if at some time you change your mind. You will always find your way back to the original impression. I trust that opinion. And you can trust the look on my face—it always tells the truth.

Austerity

We do not live one life, but many lives. And they are one after another. This is why life is so tragic.

In Paul Auster's novel "The Book Of Illusions" he writes before the book starts:

Man has not one life but many lives placed end to end. That is the cause of his misery.
-Chateaubriand

Beautiful.

If You Pull The Plug Do You Have Battery Back-Up?

The publishers of New York Press pulled the plug on printing the Danish cartoons that have caused chaos above and beyond any debate over free speech.

The Editor-in-Chief Harry Siegel wrote, on behalf of the editorial staff:
"New York Press, like so many other publications, has suborned its own professed principles. For all the talk of freedom of speech, only the New York Sun locally and two other papers nationally have mustered the
minimal courage needed to print simple and not especially offensive editorial cartoons that have been used as a pretext for great and greatly menacing violence directed against journalists, cartoonists, humanitarian aid workers, diplomats and others who represent the basic values and obligations of Western civilization. Having been ordered at the 11th hour to pull the now-infamous Danish cartoons from an issue dedicated to them, the editorial group—consisting of myself, managing editor Tim Marchman, arts editor Jonathan Leaf and one-man city hall bureau Azi Paybarah, chose instead to resign our positions.

We have no desire to be free speech martyrs, but it would have been nakedly hypocritical to avoid the same cartoons we'd criticized others for not running, cartoons that however absurdly have inspired arson, kidnapping and murder and forced cartoonists in at least two continents to go into hiding. Editors have already been forced to leave papers in Jordan and France for having run these cartoons. We have no illusions about the power of the Press (NY Press, we mean), but even on the far margins of the world-historical stage, we are not willing to side with the enemies of the values we hold dear, a free press not least among them.

He mentions how it would be "nakedly hypocritical" to not run the cartoon he critized others for not running. This shows great character and will. I love a man who sticks to his beliefs and follows through. I think the follow through is one of the greatest qualities to posess—if you say you are going to do something, do it. If you chastise another for doing something, don't do it yourself, and vice versa. A person is their words, without them, they are nothing.

While I completely agree with free speech, and admire his decision, doesn't he know how hard it is to get a job in this town?

Or maybe finding a job is hard only for those once labeled a GOP sex tigress?

I wish I had some double AAs.