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Google "hate alton brown" and (at least at the time I wrote this) you get my entry from 2008. The entry was forgettable, but the comments were not. Leave it to the Internets to get all worked up over someone's opinion. Still, having the comments on that post be the only traffic here got me thinking about this site and how I've neglected it for the simple crack that is Facebook. There, instead of forming complete thoughts and actual paragraphs, our simple one-liners get us all that social validation. I'm not opposed to it, but I do miss the effort required to put together a proper set of ideas. Of course the same criticism cam be made of most of the Internet. Facebook and Twitter are just the most refined (see "crack" or "heroin") version. I don't think it's so much a tragedy for consuming complex thought, since most people who read blogs/facebook/twitter aren't running out to buy Umberto Ecco novels, but more a tragedy for forming complex thoughts. We aren't forced to put our ideas into anything other than "where did the weekend go?" So I'm shutting off comments on Alton. Take your strongly felt opinions and try turning them into either something more complex or, more interestingly, something more delicious: go cook something!