kitty shroedinger's box

One of the basic concepts of modern physics is that reality does not exist until it is observed by you, the observer. It's what the title of this blog is all about. Like the cat in the box, its state of being collapses into the real world from the quantum state only when the lid is lifted, or in this case, read. This idea holds for all the sites on the web, none of them exist...we sort of forget that there are no real places on the net, like the one you are sitting in right now. Yeah, that chair under your butt is real...this site is just a bunch of electrons, forming into shapes on a screen and into ideas invading your mind. But a few days ago I found a site that challenges my reality in ways hard to describe, because ideas are real.

I want to be like Dorothy, just as she 'knew' that there was no place like home and say, "I do believe, I do believe, I do believe", in the First Amenment; all the while willing to accept that the occasional whirlwind could blow it away. Dorothy defeated her witches and the flying monkeys and escaped the poppies of delusion, but in cyberland I found an old demon in a pretty new dress who has created a shiny bauble on the information highway. Clever, astute, bold and attractive to the vulnerable, confused and frustrated travelers who seek to understand the ways of today's 'Land of Oz'.

It cajoles "Come my pretties and I'll show you a way that all your problems can be solved. I'll tell you the truth of why your world is so damn hard and I'll even tell you how to fix it!"

The Libertarian National Socialist Green Party is a menage a trois of concepts, but the truth of it's origins is in the heart of it's name: National Socialist...most people under the age of seventy have never even heard the term except in the dry, dusty context of a history class. Libertarian and Green? Well golly gee, those folks are all for environmental goodness and freedom and all, right?

Well, to give the Libertarians their due, their laissez (sp?) faire approach to life is a legitimate political stance that has its points and they actually serve the body politic by keeping certain facist factions under control. The Greens are sincerely concerned about many aspects of the environment and the foundation of a society that creates a balance and harmonious way of life. Social justice issues and concerns about the techno-industrial domination of our society are real.

No, the problem with the LNSG is not real Libertarians or genuine Greens. It's the Nazi heart. Yeah, you got it, the LNSG are Nazis, co-opting two legitimate party images and sliming their way onto the political stage. I wondered for a while, whether ignoring them might just be the best way of dealing with their existence. After talking it over with some of my friends, I realized that I would be making a mistake.

I picked up a rock on the verge of the information highway and there was a fat hairy slug of data. I wanna get a magnifying glass and have at it on a really sunny day.

more later....

I swear it was not there last week. Anyway, this means that I can now put up the link to I fear the end of language...

His last post was at the end of May, but I suppose this means he is off for the summer and I can only hope the blog resumes come autumn.

I fear for my sanity.

I did it! I figured out a way to get the links onto the sidebar. When originally looking through all the set-up stuff on posting, I found most of it pretty self explanatory. The Template thingy however? That was scary, it was in some kind of mumbo-jumbo language.

I once formatted a hard-drive back in the days of DOS and DOSSHELL. Ever since then anything that wasn't in a pretty little window or looked even remotely like code would send me diving for the exit. But I really wanted to figure out how to use this blog set up and the damn help box kept telling me to type stuff in.

So I looked at it
and it sorta made sense
and I then I created another blog
and started messing around.

I did it! I got up a link
and I promise to try to put up more
and I even figured out how to write stuff in the space
and I'm just so proud of myself.

My kids think I'm pathetic.
"It was such a no brainer Mom"

Yeah? Well at least this time I didn't wipe out the entire year-end report and all your poetry from fifth grade english and have to write a note to your teacher because your paper on 'The Thirteen Colonies' was real history and a thing of the past.

I did it all by myself this time too, and it worked!

Okay, so Larry and Angie (and as far as I can tell none of the almost 300 folks to apply), have not completed the application and registration process to be on the ballot. I still think there will be a lot of names in that part 2 section come Oct. 7th. Perhaps so many as to make this entire event a joke. Now they say it's going to cost about $67mil to produce this dog and pony show, and today I read that the Dems are 'unraveling' - what a delicious word! 'Unravel' came from an aol headline and originated as a Reuters post, but here's is a cute little article that had me rotflmao.

Friends tell me that my posts make me sound like a republican. I'm shocked and dismayed...horrified to give this impression. I'm not registered with any party. I belong to the select elite of persons cited by Groucho; 'I'm not sure I would want to be in any club that would have me'.

I'm just easily amused and the current political scene here in CA is the silliest reality show on the planet. I must laugh, because I lack the superhuman strength it would take to face the real reality of the state of this State. It is a verbal hysteria, not real humor.

Anyway, to reclaim my light heart I must tell you thatthey say Arnold is going to give us his final word next Wed. nite on Leno. What remarkable timing! Being that he's not Jewish, I seriously doubt he knows this date is the anniversary of the Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (72 ce) and also the day the Jews were tossed out of Spain in 1492, as well as the day Columbus set sail looking for a way to get rich quick.

It is one of 'those' days Arnold and I tell you, unless you're like Angelyne and only in it for the show, you oughtta just say, "I'll be back." Listen to your wife. Wait for the dust to settle baby, and make a clean entrance in the next reel election.

Are there ANY real leaders out there?

Whenever I click up Blogger, there is this nifty list of the last ten blogs to be posted. My luddite friend, who shall remaing anonymous - let's just call her Luddie, was aghast at the notion, that if I didn't check them all out, I would never be able to find the good ones. I gently told her that the list was like the 'stream of Heraclitus', and finding a gem was simply a matter of fate.

"Like a gumpian box of chocolates?" she queried.

"exactly."

Somewhat mollified, she said computers and the net still give her the willies, but because she is my friend, she will accept my enjoyment of them.

Today the CompuNorns bestowed on me I fear the end of language, a delightful blog, even though I can't it link up this page because it contains a tilda symbol and I have no idea how to type that in....here is the address for those of you smart enough in data entry (I bookmarked it, I'm not a complete idiot).

http://home.uchicago.edu/(tilda)samgill/confession.html (that's all one line of course)

If you can't get to him he says to pass on the discovery that 'coalition of the willing' comes out as COW in the acronymicon.

I 've also enjoyed Blogademia, whose address I can type. He's running an experiment and you can still get in on the fun.

I wish I could get the sidebar links up and running, but I get the feeling it will cost me $ and I dont know if I have the vanity (or the cash) to pay for self-publication.