The tape of Mitt Romney speaking at a private fund raising event, revealed to us by Mother Jones magazine last month, was in a word: AWESOME! The person who pulled this off without getting caught did a remarkably good job and we are grateful for this huge bit of insight. After all didn’t we suspect this is how Romney really felt about us? Aren’t we glad we have the opportunity to smite him with his own words and watch him recoil in shame for being dumb enough to get caught? Well, yes we did and yes we are. After all the man is running for president and seems to think he doesn’t need our votes.
The power of the smart phone is seductive. In this protracted downturn of the economy where many of us are either looking for work or hoping to keep our job it’s easy to develop feelings of irrelevancy. The opportunity to uncover a truth or expose someone publicly in order to alleviate our own sense of worthlessness and shame with righteous noble cause, can appear to be a great reward, especially when the investment is a mere $1 APP.
Audio Memos for iPhone reportedly gives you fabulous recordings of unlimited time with lots of options for adding images, sharing, Cloud storage, etc. etc. Newer iPhones come with a built in voice recording application, too. But if these don’t work for you, there’s a gazillion other similar apps free, cheap and otherwise, to get the job done and put the power of control back into your hands. Consider CopRecorder, the app designed for the lead footed imbiber, the Occupy activist, and anyone remotely resembling Rodney King. VR+Lite for Blackberry gives you the ability to record that politician you wait on who’s always inviting you to ‘join him in congress’ AND post this recording to Facebook or Twitter before he signs his credit card receipt. From blundering, lying candidates, greedy co-workers, cheating spouses, abusive partners, criminal neighbors, lusting landlords, disrespectful employees, corrupt bosses, or environmental polluters…there’s an app to help you expose and crush them- Oh yes!
But should you? Probably, you should not.
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