I Read the News Today

One of the dilemmas of these far-too modern times might be reduced to the simple question, "just because we can do a thing, should we?" It's timeless and has always haunted us. 

I'm sure Milli Vanilli would have faced it after Girl You Know It's True if they hadn't gotten tripped up by Rose Mary Woods' tape deck. (Alas, poor Maxell, I knew him well). Everything in moderation, to include moderation, is a wonderful thought to live by. Too bad too few do.

That said, I'm sure we could have had far more letters than just 26 in our alphabet but someone, someplace said 'two dozen plus two is just peachy' and spared us the turmoil of the Dano-Norwegian Alphabet, with its Ø also known as the "not an O letter," to say nothing of the Æ (and quite frankly the less said, the better).

So it's with some trepidation I read news reports of Twitter doubling the character count. I do appreciate the idea of testing the concept with a selected group of users before offering wide-scale deployment. I hope I can be forgiven for praying that NOT among the double capacity testers is someone who has caused me to wonder about his testes and their size especially in the last eight months. 

As Little Marco shared with us once upon a time and long ago, he already has tiny hands. Trying to type 280 characters could mean a tweet that denigrates Colin Kaepernick, while simultaneously insulting Senator John McCain, disparaging three governors and two (or more) foreign leaders and nominating Steve Bannon for a B'nai B'rith award all in one swell foop. 

All of which could cause, I hope,  something other than those itty-bitty hands to catch on fire.  

-bill kenny