The Bully Pulpit

Truthfully, I switched to Mac because all the computers at The Times-Standard except one are Apples. The lone exception was built in 1985 and runs on "flex capacitor" processing technology. Where's a newsroom supposed to get 10 gallons of plutonium for every hour spent on the Internet? The Lybians went out of business a long time ago.

Also, one of the perks of being online content editor is a company-issued Mac Book Pro laptop. Such a laptop makes me a lapdog in a pinch. I sit. I rollover. I'll do whatever my bosses want for a Scooby snack and my pretty silver computer.

Ethics Schmethics.

But even if work hadn't pushed me toward Apple, I know I would've gravitated in that direction anyway.
On my PC, there was just one too many error messages like the following:

And since I changed over, I've had no problems at all with my computer — no adware, no spyware, and no malware. When was the last time I was able to say that? Windows sucks. Don't be a sucker.