Posted by
Mysterious_1 on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:10:00 PM
I know that everyone is entitled to an opinion. I know that not everyone's opinion will agree with mine. That's okay. That's one of the great things about this country. But there are some things that just ought not to be said in certain venues.
Besides being interested in politics, national security issues, the intersection of faith and culture, and a number of other "issues," I'm also interested in technology. I subscribe to several technology-related e-mail news letters. Technology would seem to me to be a somewhat apolitical topic. At least that's what I though until this morning. This morning I opened my copy of "Download Dispatch, Windows Edition" from Cnet.com. Here's what Peter Butler Senior Content Manager, CNET Download.com had to say in his article entitled "Worst Downloads of 2008":Sure, you're all jazzed about Barack Obama and looking forward to a brighter
2009, but what about the catastrophes of 2008? I'm not talking about the
financial meltdown, Sarah Palin, or The Love Guru...I'm talking about the
worst downloads of the year.
Okay, we're all "jazzed" about the inauguration yesterday. We should be, this is America. This is how we transfer power after an election. I'm sure that we're looking forward a brighter 2009. No matter how 2008 was for us, we all hope for better things in 2009. That's just human nature.
Here's where Mr. Butler flies of the rails as though he were a Huffington Post or Democratic Underground blogger. When he lists Sarah Palin as one of the "catastrophes of 2008" on par with the financial meltdown he reveals himself as either another journalist in the tank for the Democrats or as a man with an extremely poorly tuned sense of humor. Like I said, somethings just ought not to be written in certain venues. Surely technology in and of itself, is apolitical. I expect I wasn't the only person that was mildly bothered by this ridiculous comparison of Sarah Palin to the financial meltdown. Almost half of the voters in the Presidential election voted for Sarah Palin for Vice President. I hardly consider that a "catastrophe."