The Good and The Bad

Over the years I've read some very good blogs, and some very bad ones. In the search for a url for this blog I weeded through a detailed history of one girls trip through baton camp. Who knew such a thing existed. So, twir.blogspot.com was out. There was also a very depressing recount of one woman's menstrual cycle. She either killed herself or discovered Motrin around 2004 because that was the last post.

Those are the bad, and I will try hard not to be bad. To me bad is the mundane or worse inane. One of the best things I've read lately was a commentary about Facebook. It was simple: "If you think Facebook is inane, you need better friends." I'll try not to be inane also.

The blogs I've enjoyed have been well written, and taken a pretty direct approach on what ever subject they take on. That's what I'll do.

It won't be a blog about Thomas Friedman, although the title I choose was a direct rip off of his book. I consider Friedman the pied piper of the last decade, and I consider the last decade the Decade of the Dumb. The Bush - Hilton years, when our President was a graduate of the slow reading class in the fourth grade, and the most famous celebrity laughed at us laughing at her being so dumb. The joke was in fact on us.

Friedman deserves ridicule, and I'm sure I'll give it to him, but I don't want this to be just about politics, or just about Paris Hilton. Football coaches are dumb, I'll take them on too, and the Federal Reserve Board, or the people who propose that trains should have air bags on the front to prevent suicides.

I guess basically I'm taking a firm stand against stupid. I'm going to challenge it when I see it, and call it out when it speaks up. We've been to quiet about stupid, to afraid to challenge it, to passive in thinking 'everyone is entitled to an opinion'. Everyone is, but that doesn't been it's not dumb.

So of I go, follow along I hope. I'll write as often as I can. Daily I hope, maybe more, probably less.