lit crit

 I didn't look up those links of Beagles because there was no mention of their source or specifically where in their verbose jungle was what they were saying what he says they were saying and it takes considerable time searching through them looking for what often turns out to be a needle in a haystack.  But I decided today to humor him.

The first quote was from Sinclair that notorious right wing group that buys tv stations and then tells the reporters what to say.  But just because somebody is a lying liar does not mean that a specific thing they say is untrue, so I looked through it and all I saw was anecdotal evidence.

The other one was from something called The Conference Board which I never heard of and seems to be composed of the heads of big business.  The site is sloppy with a lot of photos and I gave up early on finding anything there.

The internet is indeed like the bible in that you can find anything you like there, that is why it is not a good idea to do this

I chose to take my sources at their word because they were consistent with what I had already seen with my own eyes,

Oh it's a good idea if you already know what you believe and are only interested in buttressing your ideas whether they are true or not.  But it is not the way science is done,  That's why people believed the earth was flat for much longer than made any sense.

What Uncle Ken did was asked an unbiased question of the google machine and then surveyed the first page of responses.  Also not an ideal way to search but better than looking for stuff that agreed with what I already thought I knew.  I wonder if Beagles did those searches, and if he did, did he read any of the articles.

But we have been here a million times, okay maybe a hundred.  And I get no joy in it.

Catfish is a long Word doc and searching through it while editing it a little bit and also searching through the blog which has an awkward structure takes a lot of time and I had a feeling that I might be repeating that last chapter, but I just went ahead with it because the time was getting late.

But I am glad it was pointed out because now at least I know that it is being read.  I know it is asking a lot, but I will anyway because I put a lot of work into this.  Could I get a little commentary from the Dawgs, comments along the lines of you liked this and you didn't like that?  Actually I prefer the latter because that is the way that I learn things.

Long ago I stood out front of the Ten Cat looking at one of my shows and this fellow came out to get a smoke and started commenting on the paintings and he was being quite critical, which I really appreciate because people who know me generally just say something like, oh that's great, which really tells me nothing, but this fellow was just standing there smoking his roll your own and saying what he thought.  He did not know at first that I was the artist, but even when he found out he kept right on being critical, and I really appreciated that.

And that fellow was Old Dog.