After reading this posting about Chez Pazienza, a blogger who was fired from CNN for keeping a personal blog, I have decided that I don't want to work for anyone who expects their employees to be mindless, spineless, opinionless drones. I believe that bloggers are some of the most well-rounded and informed people in the world. They make an effort to share their experiences with others, and facilitate discussions about them. But, bloggers are changing the way big business works and big media corps like CNN don't like it.

For the first time, consumers are gaining enough power to hold influence over enormous companies. In the past, one pissed-off customer was one customer lost in the eyes of the business. Now, a disgruntled customer can cost the company the business of hundreds of consumers by going public about it online.

The companies who ignore and even punish people for speaking up will die in the long run. I hope CNN surrounds itself with mindless, yes-man employees to sing compliments to the executives even as the company is becoming outdated. Other news outlets will embrace user activity and replace the once-reputable news companies. As CNN continues to report on Britney Spears while ignoring Iraq, and the New York Times publishes all the rumors fit to print, people will decide to get their news elsewhere.

Almost a perfect 5 except some of the dialogue seems slightly unrealistic. I went to see this one with Linds and Rachel near OSU campus, and I think all three of us really liked it. My favorite movies are the ones about ordinary people in ordinary circumstances. I don't know why movie producers think that audiences would rather attempt to relate to international spies and superheroes. Hopefully the success of Juno will help end the streak of awfully bad movies that have been made recently. (Yes, I'm looking at you, One Missed Call.)

(Although I'm fairly certain you will never read this, I don't care. I feel like venting.)

Anyone with a conscience could never justify causing over a thousand dollars worth of damage to steal a cd player that was worth under a hundred dollars (and that was when I bought it, which was over five years ago). But not you. Although this was not a truly serious crime, I suspect that you are a repeat offender because nearly everyone I spoke to at work (in the Arena District of Columbus) had been broken into at one time or another. You will be caught eventually, although the amount of time you spend in jail will undoubtedly be less than the time your victims have spent on the phone with the police, insurance agencies, etc.

What I can't seem to understand, however, is your selection of items to steal. Personally, I would have taken the $30 motorola car charger that was simply laying there in the floor. Instead, you chose to take a pair of scratched up, off-brand girl's sunglasses and a lifeguard first aid kit full of gauze...

Maybe you were forced into a life of crime because you lack the basic intelligence required to obtain a minimum wage job. If so, perhaps you should lay off smoking pot in the cars you are breaking into. Thanks for the contact high coming out of my seat fabric! You must truly be desperate, because I have parked in the ghetto of Clifton for over 3 years and have never had a problem.