Hal - Deliberately Basic

I am always amazed at people who think they know me, when in fact they either don’t know anything about me, very little about me, or simply don’t care. Those who I consider friends assume I hold the same religious, political and moral values as they do. The three most sensitive issues in our public lives are taken for granted by those who make assumptions about our character.

So far, much to my amazement, I have received little political spam for the upcoming presidential election. In years past I have filtered email from certain people I know into the trash, (the mail, not the people) knowing nearly everything I get will be anti-somebody. If these people think, and I wonder if they have ever heard of fact-checking or critical thinking, what do they think of me?

Much has been written about passing on junk email of any sort. Lack of discretion, ignorance and plain bad manners has run rampant, passing time-worn, fabricated shit around and around the Internet. PTPS, Pal-to-pal spam, is fast becoming the latest addiction.

Last year I posted an article about addiction and oil. Note to self: Consider a political spam addiction post. But do it soon, they are dropping like flies in the primaries.

I love to get jokes, links to funny videos, or in most cases pictures. I love to laugh. I love to start the day with a laugh, and if I think something is funny, I may pass it to a select few who I think will enjoy it as much as I have. What I hate to see is, someone open their address book and pass on a message to their 5000 plus contacts, that has been passed on by 1234 others before them. These I don’t bother trying to see what the hell the message is, after being mucked up with greater-than signs.

Some observations I have made about political email missives and those who propagate political propaganda:

• They are usually ultra-right wing conservatives. It is rare for me to get a message from the more liberal side of the political spectrum. I find this remarkable, not because liberals have nothing to say, but because they are not in my face with whatever their agenda might be.

• There is a plethora of anti-Clinton messages. I think these must be written by men who are scared of women. I always tend to think they have a deep-rooted psychological problem with their mother and their penis.

• The messages often are reactionary, supposedly from a celebrities. Robin Williams and Red Skelton are frequent players for this made-up gluck.

• They attempt to play on the emotions of recipients. Bill Clinton got a blow-job, so it stands to reason he is evil. For Christ-sake, he defiled the Whitehouse. Somehow, I cannot compare a blow-job to dividing the country, making most of the world hate us, or ruining the economy.

• These messages, if nothing else, are self-serving and almost never have a grain of truth to them. It is apparent to me they are written by some terrified right-wing puritanical putz, with his dick in one hand and keyboard in the other.

Thank God for spam filters.

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