What if?

Posted at 8:44 AM on June 8, 2006 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)

Just spent my usual 10 minutes of my life -- which of course I can never get back -- deleting spam out of the comments ( I do this at home). Now I can get back to monitoring the political universe (which is relatively calm this morning, for some reason).

What I wouldn't give to see "public hanging of spammers" suddenly emerge as a major campaign issue. I'd even consider a constitutional amendment to ban it. Politicians would rail about the amount of productivity lost in America every day because of spam, the bandwidth that is sucked dry. News conferences would be held. Bills would be filed and -- OK, here's the daydreaming part -- something would be done.

I wonder if it's one of those issues that affects voters every day that actually would resonate in a campaign. Or would he/she/it get laughed off the stage as a lunatic for talking about something that's actually real to the average person, but is not defined as a "typical" political issue.

I wonder what other issues are out there other than the "cookie cutter" issues that are almost recited by "rote" by candidates and the media?

I also wonder: do people really buy Viagra online? Somebody must buy all this junk. But have you ever met someone who did?

Just wondering.

Comments (1)

I hate comment-spam, and I figured out a way to get rid of it on my home system using no special software. It's a very simple configuration change on the server that takes advantage of the fact that all this stuff is posted automatically. If you talk to Julia Schrenkler and she might consider putting it in place for you, have her drop me an e-mail.

Or she could jump down to my January 11th entry here: http://albatross.org/journal/archives/2006_01.html

Posted by Albatross | June 8, 2006 10:19 AM

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