Moving Right Along...

I thought that I would jot something down again. We were sitting down last night trying to get A. Smith's account set up as a team member for the blog, which brought up angry thoughts about one of my pet peeves...Why the hell does it take forever and a day to set up a free account? Email, Email Confirm, Password, Password Confirm, Secret Question, Secret Answer, Word Jumble, etc etc. I swear by the time the people who set this crap up are done "securing" us we'll be forced to win a game of scrabble, complete the math section of the SATs with a minimum score of 500, and be able to recite the preamble to the Declaration of Independence...all for a free blog account...I'll be honest, I don't care if someone hacks my blog...it's not a huge concern to me. Firstly because I don't think I'm that important (yet) and secondly because it isn't like I am throwing down with literary genius and my words need to be guarded for posterity.

Every day I feel like I have to jump through one more hoop, maneuver around one more obstacle and make just a bit more effort...all for the sake of "security" or in a larger sense,"securing my freedoms". Let me ask a question...isn't the opposite of security actually freedom? If you secure something then let it go, aren't you freeing it? Are our freedoms being "secured" and are we actually losing our freedoms? Shouldn't everyone be saying "we're ensuring your freedom"? It's an interesting thought...

Just another case of the man trying to get you down.

Lars T.