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Dear at&t,

Fuck you, and please stop calling me up in order to “upsell” me from the absolute-minimum local phone service I currently purchase to a “bundle” with mobile, internet and/or television service. I already have two of these things with other providers and I am happy with them.

If I want to save money, I’ll take action on that, on my own, when I decide to, thanks. Frankly, the option for saving money on telecommunications which is closest to tempting me is canceling my landline entirely, replacing DSL with some sort of high-speed wireless plan, and then turning to VoIP or simply having a single, cellular, phone number. Which would reduce my payments to your company to absolutely nothing, so perhaps you’d like to reconsider how frequently you want to keep prodding me over the possibility that I may be spending more than necessary on communications services?

It’s quite possible that I would have taken this step already, before you started actively, personally annoying me, if not for the fact that I work out of my home and don’t really feel like dealing with trying to update the published phone number which so far as I know you still have locked-up and protected from any sort of “portability” requirement. But I don’t really use the line that much for business communication (or for anything at all, really), so again your further pestering of me can only go on so long without consequences which I suspect you would prefer to avoid.

I should also like to point out that, attached though I am sure you are to the vision of selling everything to every customer, the fact is that given the presence of any sort of affordable alternative, I’m never going to purchase anything from you no matter what kind of “bargain” you offer because you are fucking scum. This isn’t my area of specialty, but I know enough to be quite satisfactorily convinced that you are yet another fiendish corporate near-monopolist which has spent its entire existence continually lobbying to make our society worse in order to pad your own profits.

So fuck you, please advise your staff of biological robocallers to stop filing each sales call as “not home” out of some misguided spiteful amusement at sticking me with yet another call, and leave me the fuck alone.

Fuck you very much,

Matt

Or rather, fuck your hypocritical bullshit when it comes to the issue of impaired driving.

Apparently my brother, out on his own and doing well in a productive job that he enjoys, with good opportunities, for what may have been the first time in his adult life, was busted for drunk driving over the weekend.

And so as a result of this, plus previous convictions when he was younger and more stupid and, per my understanding, recent changes to Iowa’s laws which chain him to these past offenses for the rest of his life, society’s rules now deem that his life be ruined.

Since his job involved a lot of driving, that’s gone. Since most of America operates on a personal automobile based transportation infrastructure (which, in combination with most of America’s participation in a culture of gathering for social drinking, seems like a difficult fit with zero-tolerance drunk driving laws, but we’ll come back to those), he’s now reduced to a poor sort of second-class citizenship, at best. He’s also apparently a convicted felon.

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Okay, I think this dog of a blog has just about had it. Aside from its own founder jumping ship long ago, and no one else ever bothering to post, this latest site outage of, what, ten days? Uh yeah, okay. Honestly, I’ve already made a joke out of it; at this point it’s no longer even cute.

Whatever. It’s here, for the moment, and I feel like complaining about something, so…

Uncle Paul, I loves ya, but I think you sounded like a bit of a jackass this morning in your post on “America’s Superiority Complex.” Most of this post was, as usual, sound and insightful (though I would say so, after all, given its harmonization with comments I have made once or twice).

But I’m annoyed to see yet another progressive who seemingly ought to know better dropping in this map of passport ownership by state, and then sneering about insular, bumpkin America.

If you want to sneer about insular, bumpkin America, go right ahead, of course. There’s plenty of reason for that. But sneering at low passport ownership?

Dude, what the fuck are people supposed to have a passport for? Presumably to visit other countries, right? Uh yeah, Krugs and others, if you guys like maps, maybe you should check out another one which illustrates the location of North America relative to most other countries? And maybe you would notice that it’s rather fucking isolated by some considerable distance?

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