Yahoo vs. Wall Street

OK… so now Yahoo is taking all sorts of heat for wanting to remain independent of Microsoft’s grip.  Is it so true that the highest form of corporate existence is to be acquired by a bigger company?

While we’re all familiar with smaller fish getting eaten by bigger fish and smaller animals falling prey to larger animals, it isn’t clear to me that being so consumed is the highest purpose of each animal.  If so, then there would have to be something at the end of it all, eating the big fish… and I doubt that humanity is it.

This leads me to an alternative theory of god – one where god is the next bigger evolutionary creature.  God’s purpose is to consume us, just like we consume fish and animals, who consume other fish and animals.  Could that be it?  We’re just a link in god’s food chain?

USA Today

I’ve been traveling a lot recently.  Traveling gives me the opportunity to do things that I don’t often get to do in my coastal megapolis – including reading USA Today.

I particularly like the letters to the editor – and particularly when they touch on religion.  One recent letter talked about how an editorial “offended god.”  What, god called him up and said “you’re offending me!”?  Yeah, right.

And also last week, on Glen Beck (one of the most useless wastes of satellite bandwidth), some guy was talking about how the end times are near.  How this shit gets on CNN is beyond me!

OK… so, we don’t need to worry about the war, the recession or the environment.  The End Times are Nigh… so, in the inimitable words of Alfred E. Newman, “What, Me Worry?”