Been staying up past my bedtime and re-watching Network. If you’re not familiar, the Paddy Chayefsky creation is one of the finest screenplays ever written. It also eerily predicts the rise of pundit-driven entertainment/news. Many commentators have noted that NewsCorp’s Glenn Beck is a rather transparent re-creation of Howard Beale…

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The following piece features the voices of Joe Rogan, Bill Hicks, and the Bizarro Reagans. In posting this, I do not wish to convey that drugs are necessary to transcending the narrowness of your daily perceptions. They can help, if used properly. The real point is that it is your responsibility as a human to remain curious, to absorb more of the world than your traditional senses can impart, to access deeper parts of yourself. And, for the love of everything, you need to start doing this now.

Thousands of dead blackbirds plummeted out of the sky and fell on Beebe, Arkansas this morning. Though this is hardly a novel occurrence, it may be that the planet is trying to tell us something — in the way of a choking victim desperately pleading for a Heilmlich…

I’m not usually one for New Year’s resolutions. But, if I could offer one to you Meppers, by way of suggestion: spend the year tempering your use of facebook. Let’s face it, facebook is 98% nonsense and 2% usefulness. You could take up professional lawn bowling this year and have a much more productive life in the outside world.