Odds and Ends from the week...

Ok, so George Will, a nationally syndicated columnist takes a crack at bloggers today. That's easy for you George, you have the big gig. I think he misses the point. He quotes articles in Time magazine that compare Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin's efforts to blogging and myspace and goes on to say while there is nothing wrong with blogging there is nothing admirable either, that there is no genius involved.

I think the point is missed because one, no claims of genius are made here and for the fact that a blog gives one a way to keep connected to the far flung family that the modern world suffers today. Think about it, if we were all on the farm still we would not need a computer, we'd just hollar out and in the still of the night old cuz would here us and come a running. I think George just needs to read a good blog.

Reading a good blog is also helpful in keeping the writer from coming over to your house. Do you really want me at your kitchen table telling the catfish story again and again, or sticking my head outside for a little night screaming, or arranging my boogers on your good Christmas table cloth to represent parts of the brain? What if I need one more booger, will I ask for one of yours? When we do encounter one another and I start a conversation you can cut me short by saying, "I read it on the blog." Think of the enjoyment you can have as I sit and stew over in the corner, trying to think of something to say that has not been broadcast to the world. May be that's the genius, thinking before we speak.

Don't you wish this guy had a blog?