It’s raining outside, and it’s cold. When I was a kid, an age before internet edits, I’d be really pumped about this cold rain. It meant that winter was on its way, and I’d be blissfully dreaming that the rain on my window was snowflakes up on the hill. My cocoon of ignorance was uninterrupted because dial-up internet was waaaay too slow for live webcams to actually work, and the computer at my parents’ house was always one virus away from going molten.

This brings me to the topic of this week’s Soapbox: THE INTERNET. This mystical web of digital information floating in space is ruining our damn lives. Click to continue »