I'm sorry, are there any people that aren't 20-something, scruffy white guys with webcams that think Aqua Teen Hunger Force is awesome and everyone else is stupid? 'Cause they're really starting to annoy me. I get it, Boston overreacted. I agree! Shut up already, you are not vindicated in your loserness merely by knowing what a Mooninite is when other people don't. Go away. I love marginalized geekiness as much as the next marginalized geek, but the snottiness has got to go.

In a related note, I've discovered the MetroBlog (?) for Boston, and it's written by two guys. Cool. Now I'm going to search around for blogs about Boston that offer a more diverse viewpoint. Not that I won't read the MetroBlog, just that I there must be something else. Right?

Right?

I said I wouldn't reveal the name of my school until I graduate (a rule I'm sure I've already broken), but this is too good to pass up.

So. About a year after the Dean gives us veiled threats that things we say on our blogs may lead to expulsion or other measures, the school starts three propblogs (a term I'm using to refer to propaganda blogs, because I think I'm cool enough to start using a new term). She never got back to me about the letter I wrote to her on the topic, but I didn't really pursue it. I thought it best to let it drop and graduate quietly.

I don't think I'd be so bemused if, maybe, they had a disclaimer somewhere saying that they're blogs sponsored and established by the university itself. It's not exactly clear if you happen to stumble across it via a search engine. I guess I don't mind blatant propaganda so long as there's some sort of notice about it. Then it's not as effective, I suppose, and law school's a business like any other (which has led to a lot of my recent issues with the school that I'll happily yammer about on May 27th or thereafter).

Don't get me wrong: I'd still pick my law school over any other one if I had to do it again. I also like and respect the three bloggers that are there right now (I imagine there'll be additions). I just think that if I want the experience of my law school there are other, non-affiliated blogs I'd read first. You know who you are, but I won't link in case someone gets back here somehow and the Dean decides to make use of that lovely policy of hers.

I think the internets have made me paranoid. Which, as the saying goes, doesn't mean they're not out to get me.