Guests Speak, No. 3

Blog Skepticism
by Ankush Khardori

I'm glad to see you've started this blog. You now hold the dubious
distinction of being the first person I know personally to do such a thing.
In my mind, a lot is riding on whether or not you're able to be successful: If you are, I'm going to have to stop deriding blogs at every opportunity I get.

To be fair and not to discourage you, my open disdain for these things
has more to do with their role in creating and propagating political
rumors; their authors' smug but emarrassingly unjustified sense of
self-importance (see, for example, http://slate.msn.com/id/2112621);
and the idea that otherwise useless people can make a living by linking
to *other* people's writing and adding easy irony or sarcasm (see, for
example, http://www.wonkette.com and http://www.gawker.com;
as well as http://slate.msn.com/id/2096976/).

Obviously, none of the above applies to you, and I've really liked the
few posts I've read thus far -- even though I think Coleridge a far
superior romantic poet to Byron. I'm just kidding; my knowledge of
Coleridge is limited to the oft-repeated (but infrequently attributed)
phrase, "willing suspension of disbelief." But I digress.