So it sounds like the green eyed monster has got you. Bloggers are the vanity press for the most part. Not all, but most.

Just because you express an opinion doesn't mean that everyone is denied the right to comment about YOU. Or is that too subtle for you? Toddle over to Atrios or Crooks and Liars. It's the same 20 people all screaming the same thing over and over every day and congratulating one another for how wonderful they all believe themselves to be. Ok that's fine. But it's not exactly elevating.

In any case the fact remains. Most blogging, and this column is a great example of that, are not about news or information at all. They're about hurling insults at your peers. It's the cool table in the lunchroom in highschool. Such and such talked smack about my girlfried but she's just a damn ho, etc etc etc. It's not as if that's any better or worse than the MSM. It's just another venue for the same bullshit. And the fact that I, the lone dissenter to this circle jerk get the benefit of your abuse just proves to me it's an emotive lovepile.

Now I'm sure some wit will instantly tell me something incredibly fucking arch and brilliant about how I'm in 4th grade or something. Have at. Your Pulitzer awaits.

whatever advice on life altering decision from complete strangers on the web. Because we're like informed and shit.

He should have stopped right there.

See I thought it had shades of John Updike smoking too much weed in it. Plus that whole nuclear accident thing.

Of electing someone so bland so without any dimension or depth at all so as to be to a Chauncy Gardner for the Free World. Of course why elect a Orthodox Jew when you can pick any one of interchangeable lilly white Protestant (including Mormon) 60 year old 6 ft tall non bald guys? It's not as if any of them are radically different from one another is it? From the most interesting of them to the least it's like the difference between a fully upright seat and a fully reclined seat, in coach. Wow. On the other hand the Dems seem to veer off into the weeds as badly in the other direction. Why not have a clown car and then different clowns can pop out: the woman, the hair guy, the (almost) black guy, the Mexican, the crazy old coot, the fiery dwarf/Trekkie?

Meanwhile everyone's too terrified to actually utter an opinion or a thought about anything more dramatic than "Whatever's happening now's got to changes and I'm the person who do that, whatever that is, unless of course that's offensive to you in which case, nevermind, just vote the brand not the person."

And in case you're not paying attention; Glenn Beck is the second dumbest person on TV today. Hannity is the first, the reference standard.

There are an equal number of insipid right wing blogs that you can barely read w/o bursting out laughing at the utter insanity of them. It's like most rap; so ridicuously inane you can't even make more fun of it than they do. So no, lefties shouldn't feel singled out. There are plenty of right wing noise machines out there too.

20? but in real years like the ones you compute if you're an actuary, it's more like 40.

Being who you are and what you believe in automatically exempts you from criticism? Curious. Aren't you the folks leading the vanguard of how the press took a lay down these last few years?

But by all means continue to imagine whole dialogs you'd like to have heard me say. That's fine. Yes I'm sure I did say something about Michael Moore. Of course, why don't you read it back to me now? Please do.

What if you knew your kids would develop ALS? I think hoping they turn out to be Stephen Hawking is a hell of a gamble. One you're certainly free to make though. Again it has to do with medical ethics, something most here, in their binary blinded world view are unfamiliar with. Perhaps one would need some standards that protect the rights of the people who might otherwise be exterminated for trivial abnormalities and then we could define what we mean by trivial. After all, whether you recognize it or not, doctors make decisions based on mortality vs. probability every day. You are only fully informed up to a point.

Dear me, what wit. It's hard to believe you haven't been given the Nobel or statehood or something my now. My walrus moustaches harrumphs at you. Now I must get my monicle washed in Asian baby tears. TTFN.

I would have called it caressing.

This is the year of openly calling for the elimination of some rights on some people based solely on relgion. If that works for you it works for me.

The Southern Baptists demand everyone be a Souther Baptists.

The Methodists demand you to welcome gay Methodists with open arms, or, you're being rigid.

No Jews for President.

Hell no Muslims for President.

WTF is up with those scary LDS people, they're worth looking out for.

And you Wiccans, Buddhists, Hindus and none of the above-rs yeah just go to the back to the bus.

This is America goddamnit land of the free home of the Braves, or something. Rocket's Red Glare, yo.

Thatcher

Majors

Blair

and soon, Gordon Brown

would be our PM's

who are so woefully unable to manage their own affairs need to either wear a chastity belt or live in a convent.