Blogging Special Olympics

The whole raison d’etre of a blog is that it provides an immediate – sometimes intellectual, sometimes visceral – response to events. Blog articles are not commissioned. Blogs are not sub edited. Bloggers are not line managed. Indeed, blogging only works if bloggers can freely write things which are accidentally or deliberately offensive. The hope is that gems of wisdom will shine through the muck. And they always do.

If you don’t like what you read on a blog, you simply stop reading it. Or you argue back: temporately or intemporately. But never forget that winning an argument on the internet is equivalent to winning a prize in the Special Olympics.

David T at Harry’s Place on the untimely demise of Shot by Both Sides.