There are two things about the Borg... Sorry. There are two things about the Germanins that scares the beejeezus out of me. The first thing is the bureaucracy (of this my adopted home). The second is the politics that feeds that bureaucracy. Worst-writer learned quickly upon moving abroad how nations act not unlike individuals. That is, nations reflect … Continue reading Better Left Unsaid?
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Confused Success
As a locked-in take-my-money Apple slave (not to demean the real slaves putting these devices together), I have no fear in the following claim: there is love to be found for Microsoft's Surface. Last year, with my 2010 MacBookPro reaching it's limits, I had to make a decision. First, even though a new MacBookAir was in the plan, I … Continue reading Confused Success
$200m Website
Oh, dear worst-reader. The news is slow of late. I think it has something to do with journalism being owned these days. You know. Owned like religion, wives and copyrights. So I found myself dredging more than usual this morn to find something of interest and a potential subject to worst-right about. Thank goodness the … Continue reading $200m Website
Diet Pizza vs. Play vs. Film
While watching the film August: Osage County (more on that here) I thought every once-a-once about something being amiss. Specifically, while the movie rambled on and Julia Roberts struggled with her cursing, I thought about diet pizza. Is there such a thing? Low-fat cheese atop less salted tomato sauce absent of olive oil? How 'bout low-cal salami or … Continue reading Diet Pizza vs. Play vs. Film
Tone It Down: Intelligence
Worst-writer has no qualms with the common man. Misanthropy be damned. And these gentleman (see video at the link below) deserve respect. In fact, they command it. You can tell, worst-reader, that they are truly on the verge of eruption. Yet some degree of self-awareness, self-respect and being born of (some) mother, held them back. So let's all … Continue reading Tone It Down: Intelligence
Worst Issue #58
Dear worst-reader, here another exchange, like this one, where opposing points of view are exposed. Good luck. Friend wrote: Dude, check out this link. This is not a mistake. I would bet the oil companies in the US are backdoor funding radical groups who oppose the Keystone pipeline. Some refiners invested heavily to process the … Continue reading Worst Issue #58
Crazy Elvis vs Edward Snowden
While most ask what would Jesus do, worst-writer asks: what would Elvis do? In the case of Edward Snowden I'm seriously confused about what to do. When the news about Snowden's leak first hit and I was able to wrap my head around it, I thought: where's the info? Seriously. Wikileaks was still all over the … Continue reading Crazy Elvis vs Edward Snowden
Collective Fraud = New Worldcup Flatscreens
Read an article this morn that set me off, dear worst-reader. Good luck with this one. The worldcup is coming and so too the NEED for a new TV. Indeed. But there's one problem. No one can afford a new TV. Germania is broke. What? You don't believe worst-writer that Germania is broke? Why? Because … Continue reading Collective Fraud = New Worldcup Flatscreens
Confused Protest(ation)
Misguided? Not sure. Government so gun-ho on reigning in the <sarcasm on> dangerous Interwebnets <sarcasm off> that any kind of protest is worthwhile protest. Or? But what's clear about recent Net Neutrality effort on the part of big government and even bigger corporatism is that this most recent attempt to control it has mostly to … Continue reading Confused Protest(ation)
Novel Endearment
The Physician by Noah Gordon. Finished it two nights ago, dear worst-reader. Long has this book been on my to-read list. Long have various acquaintances (in Eurowasteland) inquired about my consumption of it. Short was the task to get thru it. Glad to finally hack it off my to-read list. Now the struggle to figure out which … Continue reading Novel Endearment
Global Capitalism: April 2014 Monthly Update
For those who think: watch. For those who watch faux newz: think. For those who'd rather get a cold one and cruise the strip mall with a full tank of... Vid here.
Weak Explanation
Gore still misses it. Demonising Koch Brothers is obviously the easy thing to do. The hell with them. But when is the real, true culprit gonna be challenged? Al Gore can't do that. I suppose it's hard to blame an idea, especially when that idea is manifest by so many who can't realise the American … Continue reading Weak Explanation
Worst Question #287
Dear WorstWriter, It seems as if the move in corporate america is to host clouds that do NOT access / use the public internet. I would say all the technology that has made the internet what it is means it is time to employ this technology "off internet" for the future movement of data. Leave … Continue reading Worst Question #287
Laugh It Off
Why I indirectly use Facebook and other FB wannabees. For me, FB first caught my attention because of all the share links available on whatever website I was reading. Those buttons were initially a great way to manage bookmarks as up to that point I had been using Delicious, which is cumbersome and monotonous. Share buttons have subsequently been replaced … Continue reading Laugh It Off
8 Sails 50 Cannons
http://youtu.be/lzw-CEljje0 Something to rid us of the grime and monotony this morn, dear worst-reader. It's raining, as usual. The Eurowasteland sky is just above my head. Nomatter. Since I can't leave this wasteland I find these little my-noot video passages to break up the pain of my fingers from typing on chicklet keyboards galore. … Continue reading 8 Sails 50 Cannons
Automaton vs Parasite
Today, dear worst-reader, let's have a moment to converse in California west cost language: This is so gnarly, dude ... surfs up ... (nuff of that.) You know, there was a time when posting pamphlets on doors reformed things. But I exaggerate. Nomatter. The video above is NOT about google or tech companies. Hell, this worst-post … Continue reading Automaton vs Parasite
Prank The Automaton
http://youtu.be/EyaZlt-Xr_A Activist group The Yes Men nail it again. These guys are so awesome they're beyond funny. Seriously. It's as though funny starts at a certain point with them and 180 degrees later it's still funny but then again it's not. Dark humour? Dark Parody? Dark... You know what I worst-mean. But then again. Wait. Nomatter. Check … Continue reading Prank The Automaton
Boy Girl Named
Watched August: Osage County the other night. So. Get prepared, dear worst-reader. This is gonna be a tumbler. Well. Maybe not. Follow-up to this post here. First. Julia Roberts can't say the word fuck. She just can't. I swear, in this film she tries, she really tries. But every time those innocent broad lips open … Continue reading Boy Girl Named
Demotivational Inspiration
Today's lesson, dear worst-reader, deals with You Can't Win by Jack Black. In the forward to Black's infamous book, William Burroughs -- the old man everyone wants as a sweet uncle on account he plays a true-to-life William Tell -- says: I see the world as a stage on which different actors are assigned different … Continue reading Demotivational Inspiration
Newz #002
A: But sirrah, I say to you, I'm not intolerant. B: You are, you just don't know it. A: Therefore, this feeling I have, this inner burning sensation, means that I hate everybody? Short pause. A: But sirrah, that can't be. B: Oh it can--just as you were born. Short pause. B: And now I … Continue reading Newz #002
Newz #001
Heard today that blogging was dying. Can that be? worst-Writer's compulsion to write has been waning, that's for sure. But does that mean there's no more room for worst-Writing? Maybe they should just change the name. Indeed. Just change it from blogging to WORSTWRITING. It's a lot better than trying to explain to young dunces … Continue reading Newz #001
Woman Scorn Beware
In the movie Iron Man 2 Tony Stark finds in the diorama of his father's design for the World Expo a formula for creating a new element that will save his life. While analysing the formula through a 3-D generated image, Stark is able to reduce the design to its essence. I say this, worst-Reader, … Continue reading Woman Scorn Beware
Hedonic Regression
http://youtu.be/Vg2tERUXaT0 Worst-word of the day, dear worst-reader. Hedonic regression. If I worst-understand it correctly, this is how the powers-that-be prevent a failed economy from actually collapsing--or at least preventing that economy from resorting to wheel-barrels full of cash to buy what used to be an already overpriced cup of coffee from a store that mimics … Continue reading Hedonic Regression
End Finally Near
http://youtu.be/VdyKAIhLdNs Unfortunately the end is hardly near. But it should be. The main worst-question to contemplate today is thus: how much will GM pay in fines to the government after the faulty ignition scandal is over? The logical answer to that question is: will the paid fines actually have anything to do with the crime … Continue reading End Finally Near
Taxation Equals Everybody
Subtitle: Taxation Makes Everybody Equal. Yeah, right! Sub-Subtitle: No Seriously. Germans can do nothing else with their success but tax. Result is blotted pseudo socialist anti-market-driven economy but the wurst is great. Links read for this post: DW Hoeness Euronews on Eurowasteland tax evasion Couldn't help but dabble in the Hoeness affair while recently visiting … Continue reading Taxation Equals Everybody
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