All is vanity!

Today's first reading:

Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth,
vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!
Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill,
and yet to another who has not labored over it,
he must leave property.
This also is vanity and a great misfortune.
For what profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heart
with which he has labored under the sun?
All his days sorrow and grief are his occupation;
even at night his mind is not at rest.
This also is vanity.

You know I thought a lot about vanity while I was sitting there in church. How vain we all are and all the crazy things we are vain about. Our intelligence. Our talent. Our looks. Our probity. Our integrity. Our position in life. Our blog?

I think one of the main components of the big blow up at TOP is vanity. The Evil Blogger Lady is the epitome of vanity. She thought her pearls of wisdom were so great that everyone should bow down to her and worship every peep. Her commenters added nothing. Just background noise and an embarrassment to her when they did not voice the politically correct line. They were bigots. Not decent. Not worthy of her attention or of being on her platform. They would  not even pay for the privilege of her thoughts. What fools.

On the other hand many of the commenters were pretty vain. They thought that many if not most came to the site for the comments. The caustic interplay and insights are what made that site. I confess I myself was pretty vain in this regard. So I went over there and picked a fight with them. And now I pick a fight with Leisure Suit Larry at every opportunity. I hate to see his bullshit go unchallenged so I go in guns blazing like Lucas McCain. And for what? Vanity.

Muhammad Ali used to say "It is hard to be humble when you are as great as I am."

It's true it is hard to be humble. To remember that we have a short time on this earth and our time is better spent than in petty disputes with petty people. I search for humility and I always fall short.  The wife tells me that I always think I know how to do somebodies job better than them and that I think I know it all. I don't know it all. But I know a lot of shit. And I can tell when I am being bullshitted.
When we talk about stuff I don't know about I keep my mouth shut. If you are talking about repairing and building something I would listen to what Sixty Grit or AllenS had to say and keep my mouth shut because I don't have a clue. It's easy to be humble when don't know anything about the subject.

I have to strive to be humble and let go of my vanity. I get in trouble a lot because I fight other peoples battles. I am pretty self-sufficient and I am not worried about much but when other people  get smacked around I have to jump in. I doubt that I am going to stop doing that but I can be a little better at being humble. Let go of my vanity.

The only vanity I want to have to think about it that hot chick that Prince used to bang.

I don't believe in kicking somebody when they are down....

Well actually I do but in this case it will make me look bad. So I will have to pretend. There is a lot of that going around these days.

I have to laugh at the anguish over at TOP. They made their bed and now they have to lay on the grate outside the bank. They are asking for people to email them to say they are "sorry." For what?
Disagreeing with them.

The evil blogger lady was getting progressively nasty each and every day. She was particular nasty to me. I mean she posted a link that outed my real name and put my business out there. Fair enough. I know she likes to fight dirty. So do I. Spare me the histrionics and the crocodile tears. I said in the comments that she was entitled to get as mean as she wanted. She did. But other people called her on it. So she cried like a little bitch.

She was gratuitously nasty to harmless feebs like edutcher. I mean it was like she was running up and shaving off his Pete Rose haircut and stealing his special Olympic medals. Other nasty little shits like somefeller and Harrogate and that cunt Inga jumped right in. That is the real Evil Blogger Lady. A nasty piece of work through and through.

I had said that many a time. Having met her in person when she got her load on it is not a pretty site. Poor Chance the Gardner is in for it now. She will have many fewer targets to vent her spleen. He better brush up on his cunning linguist skills so he can get a new gig. I hear Meghan McCain has daddy issues so he might have a new target of opportunity.

I want to spend the weeks and months ahead on new stuff. Fun stuff. Trips. Vacations. New ventures like the great new book by Mrs. Spinelli. So I am going to try to not dwell too much on the implosion of TOP.

But tonight we can all enjoy it for what it's worth.

Heh.

Things never change.....

I have been away from the internets for a while and everything is more of the same. I followed the links of what youse guys are talking about and I am very happy I haven't been monitoring TOP!

That stuff can get you ill. Just sayn'

What they think Trooper looks like at TOP

They are not nice people. I mean they might be right but they are not nice.

What they think DBQ looks like at TOP

Those people are just not nice.

Whose that author?

Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It's night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it's blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it's on, and so let's talk very honestly about fear. Let's talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madness...and perhaps over the edge.Be afraid.....be very afraid.