OK, so I left the blogosphere, in part, because I grew tired of the constant sniping, immaturity, combativeness, and just plain idiocy that characterized so many of the posts and comments on the blogs I frequented (and wrote for). Since abandoning this blog, I have gotten involved with a Democratic PAC out here, and gotten my news from the Wall Street Journal. Well, I’m here to tell ya, folks, the signal-to-noise ratio is significantly better in the blogosphere. (Seriously, have you ever read the puerile pablum that passess for a Wall Street Journal op/ed piece?)
While I doubt I’m back to posting regularly, I have started reading blogs again, and I see that my favorites are tossing “memes” at each other like giant beach balls at a pep rally. So, in an effort to contribute once again to what—sadly—seems to be the highest-level political discourse around, and in light of the fact that both parties seem increasingly willing to abandon their principles in favor of rabid attack and defense impulses more suited to pit bulls than civic leaders, I return to a favorite theme of mine and ask progressive and conservative bloggers to post the ten things (principles, platforms, ideas, goals, beliefs, qualities, hairdos, whatever) that most clearly define their ideology
Since this blog has lost most of its juice, I’m calling on the Eve and Lilith of my corner of the blogosphere, the two ladies from East Coco Beach with the worst (yet, amazingly, distinct) taste in music ever, Dawn Summers and Karol. If you two give it a push, maybe this meme will catch on. I’m very interested to see what the politically-inclined folks of the blogosphere have to say about their respective ideologies when divorced from any specific news story or controversy. Are progressives and conservatives really all that different, other than the people they feel duty-bound to attack or defend?
I wonder . . .
