Do NOT link to other blogs if you:

• think you are doing a favor to them
• think they must agree with your opinions
• think they will be betraying you otherwise

DO link to other blogs if you:

• think it is something your readers wants to read
• think it makes you feel good to do so.
• think it furthers your message.

Everyone who links to me, I owe you my sincere thanks.  But my thanks don't mean IOU.  My thanks don't mean I will shut up when I don't agree with you.  My thanks don't mean I will put up with nonsense.

I like having a lot of people read my blog.  Maybe it is pleasure of public masturbation.  Maybe it is sharing what I have with others.  Maybe it is reducing the burden of holding thoughts in.  Whatever it is, it is not worth compromising my sense of who and what I am.

I am just a lazy bum who dropped out of college and got into programming because it was so much easier than chasing quarks and explaining their love life.  Millions of people use software I wrote everyday without knowing who I am, but I am happy being who I am.

Now I am blogging because it makes me feel good.  I am NOT blogging so I unknowingly end up owing people allegiances that prevent me to tell it like it is.  Hear this and hear this well.  I don't know how NOT to tell it like it is.  Only time I do is when I have to choose between truth and my wife's happyness.  Call it a survival skill.

If anybody has a problem with this, let me know so I can knock the wrong idea out of your head with the righteous thunder of "Selfish Pig".