Life is Bullshit

If you’ve read my posts over the past year, you might start to get the impression that while bullshit certainly isn’t a new phenomenon, the internet has certainly had more effect on the quantity and quality of today’s special-reserve-batch of bullshit than anything else in the recorded history of humanity.

Here are some internet related special-reserve-batches of bullshit:

• People getting fired over drunken Facebook postings
• Your family and friends finding out you are gay because of Facebook postings
• Car accidents because people are IMing while driving
• Having AIDS infected babies from having sex with one too many cam-whores (RL hookups gone wrong)
• Home medical diagnosis using WedMD which results in your taking your pulse every 2 minutes or OD on some medicine which causes you to shit and piss yourself
• Sites like chatroulette.com where people dress up in ape costumes, demand you show your tits or the bird gets it or even pretend to be Hitler

All for the Lulz, right?

Who is to actually blame for this insanity? Is it Al Gore, inventor of the Interwebz? Perhaps it is Microsoft who fucked us in every conceivable way by bringing us second rate software and, as a result, ultra cheap computers to the masses? Maybe it was all those internet porn companies, without which, the average website wouldn’t even have the ad revenue to operate.

I blame you, Gabriel Battista!

NOPE. It’s none of the above. I did some checking and Gabriel Battista over at VeriSign is actually responsible for all this bullshit! Can you believe it? He had the nerve to register the TLD .com on December 31, 1994 and the bullshit has been flying since. Why would you go and do such a thing? Way to go Gabriel Battista, we give you two cow paddies up!