Hey again

I realize it's a bit soon for me to be writing another post (considering that my last inter-post lapse was several months--did I mention I'm not single now?) but I was reading a news article about Chinese names.

Yes. Names. In China. Fun stuff.

Evidently, the government is now asking for people with unusual names to change those names to something more ordinary. This is so the new computers employed by the government will be able to process those names with ease.

Is anyone else going "Wait... WHAT?"

That's right, boys and girls and variations thereupon. Yet another government wants people to conform.

All because it would be simpler to force the people to change than to change the System.

Hang on. There's a romantic scene on the television. Awwwwww...

Anywho. So yeah. China. Government. Bad things happening. Think about it.

And let's be careful out there.

Here's the article, if you want to check it out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Well it certainly has been a while since I posted, hasn't it? 

Not that anyone's reading this. If you are, wow, I'm happy, but really... 

Anywho.

I've been thinking about what's been going on in the world lately. Does it seem to anyone else that things are beginning to get a bit... totalitarian? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's all for our own safety, but the United States are getting all, "No. You can't visit those websites. No. You can't buy those weapons. No. You can't bring any nail polish on the plane." 

Anyone else think that's kind of strange?

Just saying. We should be careful.

We don't want to end up like the Toad:

He sat in a pot of water that heated so slowly he didn't notice it, until suddenly, it boiled him.

Or was that a frog?