Your moment of cat-glee for the day

I love LOLcats. I love that there are people out there searching for pictures to caption just so they can get them on I Can Has Cheezburger. I love that there are people who comment on the pictures...who make Alice in Wonderland and Godzilla references when they see a picture like this.

(And I love how the little dollhouse dolls have their arms up in the Universal "Oh Noes!" Posture.)

The whole thing just makes me happy because of its sheer silliness.

Now, who was it said that the Internet was evil and isolating, and people who spend time on it become slack-jawed, cleverness-free trolls?

Actually, on a more serious note - I think people can and do see what they want in things. Pundits saying that the Internet leads to isolation and anti-social behavior, or narcissism and self-absorption (though I a bit resemble that last remark) are really not that much different from people who say that Christians are dangerous lunatics with their belief in the Magic Guy in the Sky, and they are all bent on either converting or executing anyone who disagrees, or at the very least, are bent on taking away porn and alcohol and permissive marriages and things like that.

And yet - you can always find the exception to prove the rule. I've "met" a lot of wonderful, funny, supportive people through the internet, people I'd probably never meet - probably never meet the likes of, even - in my real life. Because honestly, I'm kind of anti-social to begin with, and typing to people doesn't REPLACE calling friends on the phone - it replaces not interacting with people.

And I've also met a huge number of Christians who are wonderful and funny and centered and who make me want to be a better person. And most of the Christians I know don't care all that much about the presence (or not) of alcohol; not drinking it yourself doesn't necessarily mean others shouldn't. (And as for porn: I've not asked but I suspect many of the folk I know would kind of shrug and go, well, as long as they're not forcing the people to participate in the making of it against their will...)

I don't know. I get kind of tired of the "if you are X, then you must fit stereotype Y" attitude that so many have. Because more often, when I meet someone who is X, they're actually A, B, and sometimes C.