hasta la vista
Zee tumblr's reformatting does not agree with me; it ate my homework.
While I did have a dedicated notion of this page's updates remaining apolitical as well as purely topical, this is footnote related, as the pertinent essays will (and already do) exist as archival footnotes. This site is only marginally less a frustration than tumblr at the moment, but it least it will not go ex nihilo on me.
It's also high time to break the worst summer hiatus possible, which put me offline for two months at the worst timing potentially possible (that's family for you, though by no means is this indicative of ingratitude).
I'm here to express some gratitude, as in hasta la vista Forbes, whether this is purely coincidental incidence or not, -as I am truly thankful that Forbes will no longer have the extravagance of existing as a perennial sort of gadfly invader of my consciousness. The continued periodic miasma of their idealogical bias as utter journalism fail has a spring rite quality of unwelcome resurrection. They are testament to some of the most regressive idealogical traits possible to unleash in terms of what seems an almost inbred editorial/journalistic bias, its very failure being its pretense and pretension to parade itself as journalism (ah, family businesses).
As such they could only reflect very poorly on any investor, which I belatedly discovered to be a point of concern, as in Elevation Partners. (I do not like paying attention. Then again...)
U2′s Bono Bails Out Of Forbes In Sale To Hong Kong-Based Investor Group
Well, well, wonders never cease!
I ran into Forbes quite by accident, during an unwelcome involuntary essay on what I thought was the unholy mashup of patriarchy and social media tech, which seems almost poetic in hindsight. Very few articles can be as spine chilling as advocacy against any punitive regulation of the dissemination of child pornography in defense of so marginal an aspect as image sexting vis a vis minor to minor free speech (a heavily abused construct in itself), which could be avoided adroitly in both legislation and/or prosecution. Hard to get as lame an argument with such a requisite inverse relation to defend one of the most heinous pastimes amongst us from any whiff of prosecution, but such is the banality of evil.
Forbes would, of course "progress" (after having KO'ed my sensibilities not quite senseless) - to indeed put the banal in the phrase, offering spine-snapping contortions to defend the indefensible, begging whether any ideological coherency could come out of bending it so utterly backwards. (For other sordid details, see paragraph eleven, and then paragraph thirty/thirty-two. Then there was the matter of falsehood outright over Canadian bees (paragraph #goodGodidontwanttoknow). Thanks to the likes of Forbes, this essay was forced to grow quite relentlessly since its public inception in June 2013.
Hence the deserved riposte of being a perennial gadfly on my consciousness, thankfully removed by the investor, who is the primary subject in my book beyond its protagonist. His centrality is the reason I'd find such an association decidedly unpleasant.
His divestment means I no longer feel compelled to twitter bash one of the premier apologists for sexism to the point of rampant misogyny existing amongst us today on the world wide web. (How can one conceivably argue that we don't need to defend against the rape of children being performed to serve a mass market by targeting its consumers, or pay a woman to parse over whether a mass killer of women who described his revenge motive explicitly as a desire to do so was not (*gasp*) misogynist but (merely) a blazing narcissist, an argument that can only be treated as valid if completely and utterly divorced from the prevailing culture?!)
Baby, we've come a long way.
You deserve a 264 million dollar Thank You, which is obviously a very big one.
However, if the report is indeed true, you need to ex nihilo this page. I understand the matter is pending.