Secret Meat

Back in the Infostream, the ol newsfeed addiction fed proper.
After a Holiday sabbatical spent with the Family in more rural locales, my resistances are down. The gibbering faces that mime out the ticker and twitter are jarring at first, and most all the actual factual events writers are taking breaks of their own, storing up their juices for the push through into deep winter, and the political dealings that come with the new congressional and economic season.
But we must have information.
The caroling is done, the sales are over. As soon as the hangovers are completely faded in the new years light we'll get down to the rapidly increasing effort of keeping business as usual.
Taking a week off from News for feasting and merriment may be refreshing, but blinders don't slow the traffic down any. To much of the world, it is still 1431.
Too soon to start making the books, but the first few hours indicate the sleaze of the third millenniums first decade be only a hint of the excitement to come.


World's tallest building opens tomorrow in Dubai.
The deeper they dig, the uglier it gets: Childrens school lunches composed of spent hen nuggets and rotten, ammonia treated head-meat.
Professional gluttony as pornography.
In an effort of extreme scientific denial, the English disprove the G-Spot.
Christmas is not about spending. Which is why you don't need the money, but God does.
Lots of dead civilians, but politik dictates there be no one responsible.
Two more ships added to Somalian pirate fleet.
As much as TSA hates doing its job, it really hates an amateur pointing it out for them.

Its makes sense, what with Humor being a form blasphemy in Islam, but an axe-wielding Assassin was sent after a cartoonist and his five year old granddaughter. Act surprised if your fancy your self culturally sensitive.

Chinese Banks = Chinese Government. Chinese Banks investing in American Business = Chinese Government owns American Business. Wholesale. Cheap. Goin-outta-bidness. Simply and beautifully, we're all now "too big to fail." It's just who gets the lions share of the future.