THE SILLY GLITCH (October 4, 2015)
The last few years, I have grown ever closer to The Guardian. By and by, it has become the main source of news for me. Its leftish bias was easy to adjust to, just as was the case with the opposite bias of The Economist, which I abandoned years ago. Annoyed by the newspapers as I have been for years, I have still relied on the online edition of The Guardian for the basic daily news. But something strange started happening a fortnight ago or so. Soon after I would get to the newspaper’s website, everything would freeze on the screen. The screen pointer or cursor would start spinning and spinning. I could read whatever was on the screen, but I could not scroll up or down any longer. I could not open anything either. I have no idea what is behind this glitch, but it could be the Adobe Flash Player, which I have refused to update several years ago (“Screw Flash Player,” April 8, 2013). Which is why I have stopped trying the last few days. Screw The Guardian, too. Whatever is behind the silly glitch, it is ultimately on my side. For I have been doing my utmost the last few years to stop reading the newspapers. All of them. Saved by the glitch, I can only hope that my access to all the other newspapers will eventually be thwarted. And for good. Alleluia!