Friday Fishwrap, Evening Edition
It is the 5th Friday in Lent. 9 days until Easter
Welcome to Friday Fishwrap™, your weekly email filled with this week’s efforts from the staff of The Global Exclaimer.
The Glob Staff is on an adventure. We are currently in some casino in Oklahoma. In case you missed it, we did a “Live” from one of our stops. You can see it below:
A Cigar Pairing. The first of many - well, no, probably not…
We have been traveling with very spotty internet, so I have not done much writing this week.
I have been redecorating The Glob. I decided that my desire to make it look like a newspaper was an artificial constraint, and not really appropriate for what is basically an opinion magazine, not a newspaper. So I removed all the local, national, global news tags, and created some new sections. I am busy retagging all the articles so they show in the right place. The new sections are all in the menu bar at the top of the page.
While I was at it, I ran across this article i wrote ragging on the Google Search tool, retagged it as Opinion and Cultural Takes, and decided to call everyone’s attention to it again.
t has moved past “walled garden” to Evil Overlord Wannabe. I think the last laugh is on Google though, as I never use it for any searches at all anymore. I’ve moved to Duck Duck Go and Chat-GPT, and, as soon as I find a suitable mail client, I will dump Gmail as well. It has truly turned into a steaming pile of manure.
Google - marginally useful at best
Once upon a time searching with Google was an exciting and fun adventure. You could search and see what came up. Or you could narrow your search with Boolean operators and quotes.
I also feel this article is worth a review since it was written when I had half the number of subscribers as I did when it first published. I made some slight edits, and present to you the dangers of Occam’s Razor in the hands of the Childish.
Occam's Razor is not for use by the childish.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (GLOB) - What's on my mind is the abuse of Occam's razor, specifically with people finding reasons for why Harris lost the election.
So, that’s all I have for this week. Next week:
some Globservations from our Adventure
The second half of my article on Theophany
The continuation of my review of White Fragility
Some more Smoky The Barely Tolerant.
Have a good week and a blessed Lent.
If you are enjoying The Glob and want to support me in some way, you can buy me part of a cigar!
