BWAB: Do “They” Have The Right To Know?

Let me preface this with saying that I gave up any debate on this issue, long ago. This blog is an archeological relic and I barely ever shlock stuff over here unless it's just irresistibly retarded like this one.

“Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.”

Please list all aliases or “handles” you have used to communicate on the Internet.

Bozeman isn't simply interested in finding out where to look for potentially embarrassing personal details; the city wants full disclosure, since the form demands username and password information for each. City employees will apparently be able to dig through any information applicants have put online, regardless of whether it's accessible to the public.

It's probably safer to ascribe this sort of behavior to cluelessness rather than malice. (Or maybe not). But the cluelessness is apparently a two-way street, as Sullivan indicated that nobody has objected to the city's request for login credentials.

Yeah, right, whatever ... if you're only discovering this question NOW, you basically lost your right to ask it nearly 10 years ago.

And as an extension of that utter cluelessness, "people like them" continue to wonder why "people like us" simply do not fit into this society. Sorry, but we just can't teach rocks to read, regardless of the persistence of our own earnest optimism, patience, and fortitude.

Sometimes, ipso facto, this is the kind of stuff that makes me suspect that "we" -- some theoretical and as yet ill-defined nebulous sub-group of the human race -- are already an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of the species from "them" -- occupants of the middle of the bell curve of human cognition.

If none of this makes sense to you, dear reader, don't worry, here's a special translation just for you: "OMG! Look at all the Ponies and Rainbows! OMG! LOL!"