Carl's Maundering Blog

After I took the quiz, I got this result:

The Joker 68% Apocalypse 65% Magneto 61% Mystique 54% Green Goblin 54% Juggernaut 54% Dr. Doom 54% Mr. Freeze 53% Lex Luthor 52% Venom 50% Dark Phoenix 48% Two-Face 46% Riddler 44% Poison Ivy 42% Catwoman 33% Kingpin 33%

The Clown Prince of Crime. You are a brilliant mastermind but are criminally insane. You love to joke around while accomplishing the task at hand.

A followup to my thoughts on "activism:"

It should be and is a last resort. It signals to those you are trying to influence that you believe all other options at your disposal are exhausted, and the only remaining course of action is to make a nuisance and jackass of yourself.

This is why Joe Killian's report covering an activist demonstration was interesting to me.

I recently attended a conference where I heard what otherwise may have been a good presentation about net neutrality, by a very articulate man named David Isenberg. The last 25% of his presentation was devoted to a silly screed-in-verse in which he actually tried to get the audience chanting as if they were at a protest demonstration. (I think the chant went something like, "fat pipe, always on, get outta the way.") It was as if he was an aging hippie hoping to capture the emotionally-charged mobocracy prevalent in the 1960s. It temporarily turned me off from what otherwise was a persuasive presentation in favor of the restoration of net neutrality principles to our legal code.