I have no idea what to write for a blog. Honestly, I really don't understand the whole phenomenon. I mean, everybody feels as if everything that they think or that they say is important enough that everyone should hear about it. But whatever happened to the days when these assholes (of which I am one) would just bore their coworkers, friends, family, and whoever was too polite to tell them to "fuck off" at the bus stop? Now the minutiae of their lives is posted on the internet for all to read. Actually, I guess that's not so bad. Maybe now these people won't bother everyone else by talking to them.

I guess the thing that really irritates me about the blog thing is the credence it's been given by cable news. As if cable news wasn't already completely ludicrous, now they feel the need to report on the way things are playing in the "blogosphere." Seriously, just because somebody has an opinion and internet access, why are they treating him or her as if they are an expert? Why should their opinion have any extra value? I suppose it's just an extension of the "man on the street" segment, except with that, it was treated it for what it was: the view of a layperson. Now, bloggers are treated as some sort of authority. In the November 2005 issue of Esquire Charles P. Pierce wrote, "In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a preacher, or a scientist, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert." Free speech is great and all, but for the most part, people are idiots and the rest of us don't really care what they have to say.