Here it is, another Sunday, the start of another week, and the end of another week that should have involved much more studying than actually happened. I should be spending less time on the Internet and more time trying to learn the crap I need to know for the state technologist board.

Maybe my attitude is, as my wife would say, too negative. There are two blogs among others that I read because there is usually a lot of content, or rather they point me to a lot of things I wouldn't find on my own. On one of the blogs the founder was asked to appear on MSNBC for some commentary. He looked like a lunatic. And smug; he was leaning back in the seat, or at least it looked to be so, and swaggering as if he had all the answers, and it was about time someone called on him to solve them.

With the other, the keeper of this blog likes Hillary as a candidate, and people that comment call him on it when all his postings lean toward bashing Obama. He basically tells everyone it's his blog, and they can fuck off if they don't like it. Not in so many words of course, but it's true nonetheless, his commentary can be as biased as he likes. I don't usually mind, but this morning he seemed to be just a little too preachy.

I read somewhere that the blogs had promised to be a breath of fresh air in the media. The Internet made it possible for independent correspondents to get the real word out without having to get it approved by producers whose livelihood depended on slanted media moguls or huge corporations. More often than not, they come across as loony. It seems to me the right wing blogs are the more outrageous, but that could be my bias I realize. Still, I see it everywhere; or rather, I see little level headed discussion that considers all the possibilities.