So I've blogged about cable news before, meaning you should already be well aware of the fact that it's full of shit.  What I haven't blogged about is my abhorrence of blogs themselves.  I mean, already I've done one of the things that annoys me most about the "blogosphere," cable news isn't factually full of shit.  I can't prove that! If anything one could prove the opposite, *I* could probably prove the opposite! 

But I won't prove the opposite, it's a blog, it doesn't prove anything.  It's merely a place where I or anyone else in the world can rant about what we think would make the world a better place.  It's usually going to be the wrong answer or a simplification of the problem.  Have you seen the commercial with the firefighters all sitting in congress-making decisions like "who votes for clean water?...gosh this is the easiest job I've ever had!"?  That's blog logic...blogic (I won't even get into the prevalence of fucked up phrasing like blogic), yeah, that sounds great! Everyone in government agrees we should provide clean water, where do we get the money? That's where the debating starts.

To be honest blogs tend to make at past what will from hence forth be referred to as "stupid firefighter government," and get stuck on that second part.  Where we get the money from is pretty much what government is elected to decide.  State funding? Federal funding? Economic stimulation? Rich tax cuts? Middle class tax cuts? Raise all taxes? Kill welfare?  Is deficit spending good? Bad?  Blogs tend to be about taking a stance on one side or the other side, or the extreme left/right side, or like me-trying to stand in the middle and make a compromise (or just mock the question until you give up and post it).

Occasionally someone will read the bastard post and comment, if I don't like what they say I can ban their IP address right off the bat.  If I should decide to respond, most of the time it's to someone that either didn't read the blog, thinks they're an expert on the subject and my opinion is just unsalvageably (No, it’s not a word!) wrong, or for some reason thinks because I managed to type 800 words on the damn thing that I actually give a fuck!

Something else that irritates me about blogs is the air of superiority that comes from most of them; people write these things like they're actually journalists.  This is the internet, and you're not Walter Cronkite-fuck, shit, ass, bitch.  It's okay to curse!  I paid $300 for the right to say whatever the fuck I want.  Although recent domain reservation fees have dropped since I purchased this site so I got like 3 cents back.  I mean, it didn't come to me in actual "cash," but it's the thought the principle of the thing.

If you're not a real journalist, and you're not trying to hawk your own book or something, why the hell do you put advertisements all over your website?  Yes, there are people that make a living off of their blogs, but I mean Michelle Malkin's website doesn't have as much advercrap as a lot of the blogs out there that pull in MAYBE a steady 50 hits a day.  You do not deserve to be paid for your half-assed opinion.  Three hundred bucks got me 2 years and a thousand can get me ten.  That isn't THAT much money people, self sufficiency isn't a necessity.  Get a job!  Blogging is a hobby, a hobby that gets pushed to the backburner when you get a job.

The best thing about the popularity of blogs is that they hint at a world where people aspire to one day think.  They aren't necessarily doing it now, but I guess practice makes perfect.