The Internet, Bringing us Less Choice. Staples buys Office Depot

"Let's just stay home."

I think these four words will be the mantra for LIFE ON EARTH.

Where do you go? In every neighborhood, playgrounds are removed and replaced with housing for the breeding rabbit-people of the world, and a bowling alley or amusement park gets removed for a fast-food restaurant and some big sterile supermarket.

So you stay home and play video games, and watch your FREE DOWNLOADS and stream FOR FREE, and get your FREE YouTube. And blogs, of course. And free news, like this:

"You better take care of business Mr. Businessman..."

There was a time, when there was still radio, that protest songs made fun of this shit.

A business buys another business just to run it into the ground? Yep. Throw thousands out of work, too.

Another news report declared Radio Shack would soon go under. Jimmy Kimmel laughed about it. Who cares? What creepy geeks went in there to buy wires, and little doo-dads to try and fix a stereo instead of buying another?

IF I'M BEING HONEST, I haven't been to a Radio Shack in years. Or Office Depot. Or Staples. Why the fuck should I buy overpriced envelopes or bubble wrap at the supposedly "low priced" Office Depot or Staples, when it's so much cheaper ON LINE? And there's no asshole customers or clerks to deal with.

No, I don't buy from AMAZON either. I find that EBAY usually does better. There's no tax, and a lot of shoplifters steal from Office Depot and Staples and quickly do a "buy it now" at a low price. It beats Amazon. What they'll do when Office Depot and Radio Shack close, I have no idea. They'll hope that at least Staples stays open and doesn't increase security at the door.

Of course down the road when the Internet is the only option, prices will rise. We've already seen Amazon charge more for shipping, and raise prices. They can afford to squeeze the consumer, since they're also taking a tip from Google and bullying their way into iTunes territory, Netflix territory, and basically copying any other website's ideas.

And so we'll be stuck in our boxes made of ticky-tacky, and some of us will work in Amazon's warehouses made of ticky-tacky, and we'll be SO glad not to go out where Arabs are marauding and the air is turning black. Or where blacks are marauding and the air is turning Arabic (from all the babble from immigrants not speaking English).

I love 2015, don't you? It's starting out SO WELL...