This editing to cut out spam in the blog reminds me of the the fact that I do the same thing with my e-mail.

Sometimes I get an e-mail with a huge number of other addressees or the indication that it is a group mailing in another form.

Then all it gives me is a link to go to. I don’t go to it.

I think that’s rude. That should be a breach of net etiquette.

If you have a link or an article to send to me, I will not read it if you haven’t gone to the trouble to write a paragraph or two telling me why I SHOULD read it.

If I am supposed to read something, you are supposed to WRITE something.

Jay’s comment on “Lucifer and Promethius” is the first I have had to approve first.

I am cutting out the spam, and this approval process doesn’t take long because I look at the comments several times each day.

Eric Hoffer, who was a working man all his life and self-educated, wrote short books made up of short chapters. His first was published when he was 65.

Hoffer got a professorship at the Berkeley campus of the University of California in the 1960s. He promptly quit because, he said, “These students can’t THINK!”

Sound familiar?

He was appointed to the Civil Rights Commission. He soon quit that, too, saying “Civil Rights is a FRAUD!”

Hoffer said he had an odd way of doing research for his writings. He would go to a library, look randomly at things, and if something didn’t apply to what he was writing, he would stop writing it.

I am similar to Hoffer. So when Texas Holdem and Online Casino send me random platitudes, many of them apply to what I am thinking about.

I’ve cut out the rest.

Everything takes a little time with me. Each thing I do requires a new learning process.

I may start a Platitude Corner. I kind of enjoy some of the sayings put out by texas holdem et al with their computer or whatever.

But comments should be for what a person writes himself on the subject at hand.