Newspapers got 'em every Sunday. So, why can't RGNC have one too? I'm talking about your basic Sunday editorial column. Here's the plan; we all take turns writing a genu-whine editorial about the topic of our choosing, and we publish it on Sunday. What do you think? And in case you're wondering, yes, this counts as the very first one. So here I go. I will now blog forth, yes, I will blog like the wind!
It seems that the political season in which we find ourselves once again, is a major temptation to become very, um...what's the word...oh yeah, very zealous. I can speak from personal experience that this has been the case with me on several occassions. I start off a campaign season barely having any appetite for the news or the "issues", but then I slowly begin to increase the amount of attention I pay to the process as the frequency and intensity of the campaign coverage picks up. Before I know it, I'm listening to candidates A and B have at it, and I find myself reacting to certain statements by certain candidates with remarks such as, "This guy's so full of it that the whites of his eyes are starting to turn brown!", or the like. Then I start surfing the web sites, you know, the blogs that have up to the minute updates on Dan Rather, etc. And then, well, then I start up again with the dirty tricks, you know, kid stuff like slitting the tires of cars in the mall parking lot who have the other guy's bumper sticker on them, harmeless stuff, basically, right?
This year, however, I'm calling it quits early. Sort of. I am going to drastically curtail (attempt) my participation in the in the whole contentious, insulting, character assasinating slugfest that we have set before us. I already know who I'm going to vote for. After all, I'm not one of those room temperature IQ "undecided" voters who can't think their way out of a wet paper sack. Nope, I know where I stand. And by the way, even though it happened many-a-year ago, who in their right mind would ever have called their political party the "Whigs" ? What were they thinking? Or the "Tories"? What's that all about, huh? You want a good name for a political party, how about something like those dumb sports team names they come up with now, i.e. The Predators, The Wild, etc., maybe something like...well, I don't know, but you get the idea.
Anyway, that's my distinct editorial take for this week's RGNC Sunday Editorial column.
be good.
It seems that the political season in which we find ourselves once again, is a major temptation to become very, um...what's the word...oh yeah, very zealous. I can speak from personal experience that this has been the case with me on several occassions. I start off a campaign season barely having any appetite for the news or the "issues", but then I slowly begin to increase the amount of attention I pay to the process as the frequency and intensity of the campaign coverage picks up. Before I know it, I'm listening to candidates A and B have at it, and I find myself reacting to certain statements by certain candidates with remarks such as, "This guy's so full of it that the whites of his eyes are starting to turn brown!", or the like. Then I start surfing the web sites, you know, the blogs that have up to the minute updates on Dan Rather, etc. And then, well, then I start up again with the dirty tricks, you know, kid stuff like slitting the tires of cars in the mall parking lot who have the other guy's bumper sticker on them, harmeless stuff, basically, right?
This year, however, I'm calling it quits early. Sort of. I am going to drastically curtail (attempt) my participation in the in the whole contentious, insulting, character assasinating slugfest that we have set before us. I already know who I'm going to vote for. After all, I'm not one of those room temperature IQ "undecided" voters who can't think their way out of a wet paper sack. Nope, I know where I stand. And by the way, even though it happened many-a-year ago, who in their right mind would ever have called their political party the "Whigs" ? What were they thinking? Or the "Tories"? What's that all about, huh? You want a good name for a political party, how about something like those dumb sports team names they come up with now, i.e. The Predators, The Wild, etc., maybe something like...well, I don't know, but you get the idea.
Anyway, that's my distinct editorial take for this week's RGNC Sunday Editorial column.
be good.
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