Not much on mind to write about today but that doesn't stop a true blogger. I'm a world class windbag and I'm going to have my say, even if I have nothing to say! I'm told by unreliable sources that this is what bloggers do, slap up a new blog every day no matter what. Well, looking back on my output, I realize I haven't been writing one every single day. What's wrong with me? Am I not windy enough? Not enough time on my hands? Am I not adept enough at sounding like an expert about things I know nothing about? Woe is me….

Maybe I should practice the art of starting a discussion based on a questionable premise and proceed as if that idiotic idea is actually a fact. I stole that one from Will O'Really, an obscure blogger I ran across on the internet. He does a little prelude about how, for example, only sane, good and patriotic people believe the things he talks about, then starts talking about some real mean-spirited crap in very logical terms, all the while ignoring the fact that he's discussing a steaming pile of horseshit that violates every tenet of every religion or moral code you can think of. Not a lot of live and let live or excessive traces of humanity in Will's blogs. But hey, it works for him, suits him quite well.

Then as a finale he trashes all sorts of people who, unlike himself, possess actual credentials, knowledge, experience and expertise but for some unfathomable reason don't believe in his mouthful of bile. He questions their man or womanhood, their sanity, their intelligence, their morals and their loyalty while never once mentioning anything remotely true that any of these people believe or things that they've done. Doesn't he know about Wikipedia,? Newspapers? Newsweek or Time Magazine? Meet The Press? Friends who are smart and remember important stuff? By the end I suppose you're supposed to be convinced that Will O'Really is the smartest, most virtuous and patriotic man anywhere, a clear thinking man not afraid to stand up for his beliefs.

At least that's where I think he was going with all that blather. But then I realized he was just filling the daily page with no particular idea one way or the next and stuck to his style, creating an irrational fear here or a nonexistent crisis there and then bellowing that only craven traitors disagree with him about these non-issues. Or when he's really out of ideas he might just defend the worst tendencies and stupidest policies of the worst (and stupidest) administration within living memory as sort of a volunteer Minister of Propaganda, and then as always he singles out people smarter than himself for a good lambasting.

Maybe I could learn from this O'Really guy, he seems to be able to crank out page after page of complete nonsense with the greatest of ease. The only problem is that I'm not naturally that angry of a guy but then again I figure neither is he. I mean, who could be? He's got to be faking it. If you're never anything but angry then your anger means nothing and no one will ever know what's really important to you or take your anger seriously. It's like smiling all day long. I figure a guy who smiles all day long is either on LSD or a lunatic. And even acid heads and lunatics are better company than anger addicts. So maybe I'll leave the O'Reallys of this world to their indignation and their delusions and go my own way.

And if going my own way means not blogging every single day then, so be it. I know I run the risk of disappointing my vast readership who hang on my every word, but an artist must be true to himself, and myself is a bit lazy. I just can't muster the high dudgeon required to be a master political charlatan or social commentator. My problem is that I like people too damned much and figure most of what they do is their own damned business and none of my own, even though a lot of those things we do fascinate me. I also can't claim with a straight face that I have THE ANSWER. What I have mostly is questions, lots of 'em.