mutable truth

[luciab]

Wow. I just found out what Wikipedia is, and I am appalled. An encyclopedia that anyone can write, with no fact checking? WFT? I quit reading the Opinion section of our local Sunday paper when they replaced in-depth commentary on topics of national or international interest with pages of writing by local yokels. They said they just rolled the in-depth stuff into the regular news sections, but I never found it. It sure made reading the Sunday paper go a lot faster, though I never thought that was a good thing, particularly. The paper has a reputation locally as having a screaming liberal bent, but this "innovation" matches Georgie's "faith based" governance horrifyingly well. I mean, why doesn't anyone care about facts and research and truth? Oh, okay. I suppose it's possible that everyone who submits an entry to Wikipedia spends weeks or months researching the specific topic they write about, and only writes about stuff they've studied generally for years. Uh-huh. Youuuuuu betcha.

In other news, this showed up on a D'land buddy's page today. She thought it cute, I found it sweet in a sad way. Still interesting, though.

I have lots of things I should do today, especially to get ready for the apprenticing ceremony on Saturday. Hell, I've never done this! How am I supposed to know what to do? I am terrible at remembering this sort of thing or I could draw on my own apprenticing ceremony. Then again, my relationship with my laurel-- and the ensuing cermony-- were not really typical. Livia fed me dinner last night (delicious!) and we talked about what we want to do, both immediately and long term. "Immediate" includes some goodies for the reception/tea afterwards; I've got the Banbury tart filling soaking now, (thanks for the recipe AoD!) and my (apparently infamous) Rum balls have been requested. Heh. Or Whee! Depending on your approach to life, I guess.

I think I'll go get started now. Rum balls coming up! I hope that particular truth isn't mutable...

Comments

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

Nah, there's a fairly stringent criteria for entries that the mods and other users enforce pretty harshly. If you want to see it in action, go to something controversial on there, and hit the "discussion" tab - you can kind of see how the entry has evolved...