Monday, October 10, 2005
That's cold!
Darryl Stein is such a dick.
Take the aforementioned Beetle's Yes on Proposition 76 post: "It screws over people currently getting money from the government, which is good!" and admits to not reading the full voter's guide. This is perhaps not the most useful investigation of the proposition in question.
Let's face it, dudes. I'm not the only one who hasn't read the full voter's guide. Besides, he picked the absolute worst post of mine on these initiatives.
I'm not calling him a dick because of that, I'm calling him a dick because he compared that with this. There's nothing wrong with that blog, but the way Stein presents it suggests that if you want to blog, you have to be willing to do research and spend time carefully commenting on issues with evidential support. Because of that, it only discourages people who have better things to do, and the only ones who will join in are those who are, by virtue of their topic, boring.
The awesome power of blogging is that it doesn't require any extra work. This blog takes a few minutes each day just repeating opinions that were bouncing through my head anyway. I read the newspapers as a matter of course, blogging about them doesn't require any extra effort. But doing so does create a community to share ideas and laughs with.
So if you're visiting as a result of Stein's piece, consider starting a blog to just publish your opinionated ideas that you'll have regardless, and don't worry about impressing outside observers with careful research. It's fun, not useful.
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