There is a lot out "there" in the world of which you and I, friend, are blissfully unaware. When I stumble across things on the web falling into that category, I am rarely shocked anymore. It is as though reality has become the new science fiction, only that to which we previously had no clue, has a tendency to have happened in the past by the time I find it out. From time to time, I intend to post these "day late, dollar short" epiphanies. They are most usually found by following the threads generated when exposed to something else I stumble across.
For example, I received a friend request from another ULC minister. I like to check you folks out before I accept these invitations, so I hope over to his profile. Looks good. Update page reference's his blog. I click to go check it out. A recent entry directs me to the Electronic Freedom Foundation's alert on the Internet Blacklist Bill in Congress. I go there, I read, I am appalled, I use the tool to send e-mails to my congressmen urging their opposition to the bill, I then follow a link to a related page, a paper on Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers. I am further appalled to learn that Amazon and Apple can retroactively censor the contents of your electronic library by making things you've legally and in good faith purchased and downloaded, simply disappear.
