A stylistic note here on the blog.

In the future, when you call people "stupid," or "idiots," you must precede these terms with something much more vitriolic and virulent.

For example, try "you stupid cock." Or "you fucking idiots."

Because simply using the milquetoast "stupid" or "idiot" doesn't really demonstrate the contempt you seem to hold for all the other bloggers with whom you share this blog.

So folks, remember: Don't be shy! Go for the jugular!

The other people here are just bloggers. Words on a page. It's not like there are any real people behind these accounts.

On another note, while I have the floor, I'd like to address a question I often get in my posts:

What gives you the right to say this?

Well, isn't that what blogging is supposed to be about? Isn't this the alternative to the "mainstream media," the technology that's going to give all us little people a voice? The people-powered movement that's going to help revive our democracy through political dialogue and discourse and debate?

That's at least what I was taught in Blog 101.

Is it possible, then, to make a broad assumption here? That we're ALL entitled to say what we think, simply by virtue of showing up here and taking part in the conversation?

In the future, let's at least try and not question who has the right to state an opinion around here, k? That's pretty much a given -- it comes with the territory.

Got that, you fucking idiots?

But Paterson, a fellow Democrat who becomes New York's first black governor and the nation's first legally blind chief executive, plans to be well prepared for the job. He asked for a handover on Monday, five days after Spitzer's resignation. - AP

David Paterson would not be Governor of New York today if he was not a black, blind man.

If he was a black man, he would not be in this position today. And if he was a blind man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, of any color, he would not be in this position today.

If he was a black woman, who'd lost sight in only one eye, he wouldn't. If he was a half-black, half-white woman, who had sight in both eyes, but had lost an arm, he would not be governor. If he was anorexic, or bulimic, he would not have that job.

Muslim? Nope. Blind Jew? Certainly not.

Let me be perfectly clear -- David Paterson is lucky to be a black, blind man. The people of New York are looking for a black, blind man, and they are simply caught up in the moment.

Now, I now many of the commenters here on the blog are going to accuse me of being racist for saying this. The reality is, anytime you try and talk about how lucky black, blind men are, you're accused of racism.

Well, I think it's YOU who are being racist. Reverse racism. I really think you're attacking me because I am white.

How's that?

How come no one here seems to be able to "reply" to posts? Doesn't everyone see the "reply" check box? Does it not work for some people? What the heck's going on?

Cause I got a headache from freakin' scrolling my eyes up and down the screen, trying to figure out who the hell's talking to who.

Or is it "whom"?

I need aspirin.

Silly me. I always thought blacks had it pretty tough. Now I know they're "lucky" to be black.

It seems odd at first. Look at the fact that while "blacks account for only 12 percent of the U.S. population, 44 percent of all prisoners in the United States are black." Or how even though more white people overall use crack cocaine, "blacks constitute the great preponderance of persons prosecuted for federal crack offenses."

Just lucky, I guess! Who knew?

I always thought that since so many people that look like Obama are still called "nigger," or find nooses hanging on their front lawns, or how the overwhelming majority of racially-motivated hate crimes are against blacks, that was something we'd consider *unlucky*.

But, really, it's lucky!

Good to know.

Note: Please look for my next post, entitled:

"I Wish I Was Muslim!!!"