Moving day (bosph.wordpress.com)

Blogger is basically unusable for me unless I host every image, every video at a remote site, and that's just a ridiculously small hoop to jump through. It's not like the United States hasn't seized/blocked sites for copyright infringements. But Atdhe.net existed for the sole purpose of stealing television shows. Anyone who can't see the difference between that and Blogger, well, there's a seat awaiting you in the Turkish judiciary.

Is it just me, or is there an air of intolerance here? Visitors to Istanbul art galleries are beaten up for sipping sangria, a TV station is slapped silly by the government for showing a cartoon character with a pipe in his mouth, TV hosts are fined simply for inviting the wrong people to interview. And, as mentioned earlier, five dozen journalists are in jail for perceived slights against the government.

Perhaps this is what happens when a country has democracy bestowed upon it, in this case by the great Kemal Ataturk, as opposed to having to fight for it.

I'll be blogging at bosph.wordpress.com/ forthwith. Hope you can visit.

If the link doesn't work, try typing it in your browser's URL bar. Contact me at sluggh@gmail.com with any questions.