Christmas Joy? The 12 Daze of Christmas

Crankeverend has come back from the dead just in time for the “Time After Christmas”, the celebration CR is calling The 12 Daze of Christmas. We are up to day 4. Here we go…..

In the fourth daze of Christmas, CR ponders the dangers of Social Media.  Yes, CR is on social media to ponder the dangers of social media…..sounds almost cannibalistic, right?  On the exact forum that allows this cranky pastor to spout his drivel, CR will attempt not to step into something CR might regret.

Recently, a professor from Drexel Sent out a Tweet — (CR will not assume that everyone knows what a Tweet is, so here goes: it is a message anyone can send out on the Twitter platform) — and his tweet landed him in a pool full of……….  It made national news.  Here is the story if you want to read it.  CR will not mention the details of the tweet because if it was dangerous enough to land this professor in hot water, CR does not need the notoriety…..Drexel Professor Hit With Deluge of Death Threats  Full disclosure, CR did not force you to read the article……and anyway, CR often tells people who are not too bored to listen to him, that CR allows his wife to get her beautiful face on television, while CR attempts to keep CR’s sad face off the news.

There isn’t a day that goes by where someone posts something that is offensive to some group or individual and they either lose their job, receive a lot of death threats, or have to do a lot of gymnastics to back pedal from their posting.  Now CR realizes that there is this thing in America we call “Freedom of Speech”, but it seems that this freedom isn’t so freeing after all.  In the highly charged atmosphere that exists after the events of the previous 363 days we call 2016, CR believes everyone better think twice about what they are saying in any posting on any Social Media site — and you better go the extra mile and have someone read it before you post it — and do not have someone who “thinks just like you think” as your editor.  

So, what is a person to do who wants to rant and rave about their most recent issue or threat to their manhood or womanhood hoping it might go viral and win them some sort of HBO spin-off of “The Bachelor” — but who doesn’t want to be shamed by America?  How about this: Just Don’t!!!!  What CR has learned in the 54 years CR has walked upon this earth is — what often sounds funny in our heads —— isn’t – one – bit – funny.  CR’s kids are telling CR all the time “Dad, you are not funny.”  “Dad, I don’t get it.”  “Dad, don’t you have to go to church or something?”  Take the lady who tweeted something simple before hopping on a jet to fly to Africa, and she became the most hated person in the world for about — well — a loooooooong time!    Twelve words — and the world hates you. CR’s advice: just stick to telling jokes to your kids, your spouse, your closest friend — and if you want to tweet something, either get a good editor or…………. JUST DON’T DO IT!

Crankeverend……………..wait, CR’s wife isn’t done editing th………………..