I'm Baaaaaaaaaack

OK - I haven't posted for a long time now. This is somewhat related to my wife, my daughter, and me returning to China last year to adopt our second child. She turned out to be a pistol (we nicknamed her "Typhoon Girl") and - well - along with work, and now school, I just didn't have much time to post. This was exacerbated by the fact that I'm not really all that cranky and I just ran out of things to beat people over the head with . . . at least these small social things I've written about.

Anyway, I'd kind of like to get back in the saddle here and don't much care if anyone pays attention or not . . . I just want to spend a little time now and then making a few points.

So I'm starting off with a little thought about the mainstream media and, especially, passing on a post I just read on HuffPo entitled "Lapdogs of the Corporate Press". I have all but stopped watching anything euphemistically called "News" on any of the cable channels or major broadcast channels. I seldom read the paper, with the now infrequent exception of the Sunday Los Angeles Times's Opinion section (which is decidedly more conservative than I can remember). I only listen to KPFK, my local Pacifica station, not merely because they share my view of the world, but also because they spend more time on subjects than you will ever get on any of the other outlets.

Now to a little test I wish to offer you, dear reader (and I probably am even being optimistic in using the singular; is there a tense for imaginary people?), and I'm going to try and embed a link to the little video that is the meat of the above-mentioned post. This may not work. Hmmm. It adds a nice black box below this text and doesn't even show up in the "preview", but I'm going to post it anyway to see what happens when it's for real. Anyway, it's nice to be back and typing here.

So . . . if it doesn't work, and on the off chance someone actually visits here, I'm adding the the link to this great video here.

Update at 1920 hrs. - same date - It didn't work, I don't have time to figure it out, so I took it out. The link works just fine.

Another update - way after the first one (Hey! So I don't always re-check every damn post - better late than never, eh?) Anyway I'm trying again now that Blogger has changed some of their code to more easily accommodate videos, though I think its mostly slanted toward YouTube. Anyway, here we go.




Holy Moly . . . it works!!