So, in keeping with the alluded to theme that blogs are nothing but a forum for tools to express worthless opinions, I offer the following: I really like Christmas music. That's right, I said it. I really like Christmas music. I think it's because I was in both band and choir (double threat guy). For seven years, October through December was spent trying to perfect Jingle Bells, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, and Winter Wonderland. Good times, good times. And, like all things Christmas, I have some specific rules governing them. Rather, one specific rule governing them. All things Christmas can only be enjoyed from the day after Thanksgiving through to New Year's Day. I will not willingly participate in anything Christmas related out of that roughly 5 week period. Nope. I won't do it. And, with that, I bid you a Merry Christmas. (I know. It's a pretty lame post. So?)

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.