The .net fetish is very disturbing, it has to be said. I avoid .net stuff like the plague (or SWT), so I have no idea how things look from that side of the fence. Do .net sites also go on and on about Java? It just seems like bad manners and a distinct lack of social grace. It’s not called randomlobbyforpartimejavamonkeyswhoalsodabbleindotnet, last I checked.

Here’s a plea to the evil minds behind javalobby, can you please split up the RSS feeds you aggregate at javablogs? The product announcements are an enjoyable informative read that I’d like to keep seeing. The forum posts however make me want to launch into a fairly disturbing frenzy of self flagellation and stabbing of random innocents; a situation which can only end in tears from almost all parties involved. Finally, something for all you Americans. Please, please, vote for notbush tomorrow, or don’t vote at all. I won’t join the mental masturbation that is so fashionable now and gloat about how evil one side or the other is.

It’s easy for you all to have pithy cosy opinions about war, civil liberties, democracy, peace, freedom, and all that. You might not know anyone affected so it’s all fun, in some sick sense. Some of us however have relatives in Baghdad. Some of us are Arabs in the US.

I’m sure it’s easy to condemn random brown people out there, to thump your chest about the greater good and whatnot. Is it as easy to look me in the eye and tell me it’s alright for my relatives to be killed? Relatives who love, cry, laugh, joke, and have children. A family that deserves to be bombed, invaded, ‘liberated’, and attacked about as much as you think your own family does.

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