Knipple (Take That Censors!)

Working in an office can be mind numbingly boring. I have to admit that whenever the weather is terrible, I’m happy to have a job where I work inside. But normally, I wonder if sitting inside a cubicle, starring at a screen, all day, every day, is really all that great. Then my catholic guilt steps in and I hear my mother’s voice say something like, “there are starving people in Africa that would be grateful to have a job like yours”. Then I feel like a jerk.

That reminds of a piece of irony that I meant to bring up….my place of work blocks all kinds of websites. Some are clearly sexual in nature, but others are just kind of ambiguous. I guess maybe they get a whiff of controversy (like the word “nipple”) and start censoring. Case in point: They have blocked the Colorado Lottery website. You can’t actually play the lottery over the website. No harm done by gambling at work, right? You CAN use the website to check the numbers of the lotto ticket you already purchased. A ticket you may have purchased in the convenience store located in the lobby of this very building. No matter that the newspaper publishes the same numbers every day, and that site is not blocked. And no matter that I can still access ebay, purchasing all kinds of contraband right here from my desk. And no matter that the dude down the hall can still access Russian porn. But God forbid that CNN publishes a story on men breastfeeding. Oh no! That is off-limits!