Blogs abound. We read about candidates, movements, people disagree & splatter aspersion, aversion, & boundless affection. For this assignment, search around, find a blog (some major players in the blogosphere are hosted on places like:
http://blogspot.com
http://wordpress.com
http://www.livejournal.com/explore/
here’s a pretty funny & irreverent one. it’s not exactly rated “G,” though!
http://maruthecrankpot.blogspot.com/
Not all blogs, of course, are hosted on a blog service. Many plain old websites function as blogs.
http://www.dailykos.com/
here’s a site that lists a bunch of blogs:
http://technorati.com/
http://blogsofnote.blogspot.com/
Here’s an interesting thing:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/
& another:
http://www.blogospherenews.com/
Read some of these, search for some more. Explore.
Find one of your own, and post the link here.
Put an opinion in your post.
Read each other’s linked sites.
Add comments on posts you like or dislike.
Add comments on comments.
and so on.
http://www.michaelwaddell.com/site/uncategorized/country-first
ReplyDeleteI was reading a lot about Barack Obama and thought I would chime in. I thought that Charlie Daniels definetly spoke for the common man in this article. It seems to me that America was built on the back of the people that Obama cut down in this article. Now the whole deal with the coal miners and the increased tax on Americans, I just don't understand how one man can tell another to give his hard earned money to somebody else so we can "redistribute the wealth" as Obama put it. Why achieve the American dream if your just going to have to redistribute it. We can't forget our roots as independent, hard working people.
Yes, this is an interesting comment, for sure. I know he wasn't denigrating these human beings for what they did, he was just lamenting that, instead of looking at positive actions to take to improve their lives, hard times can affect people by making them paranoid, or violent, or look with suspicion at people who aren't in the same boat as them. This is fear, & it comes from losing work, losing chances, getting down in the hell of being a working man with no work.
ReplyDeleteThe increased taxes, for instance, would not be for "hard working people," but for the true elite of this country, some of whom close the mines to move operations to third world countries, where they hire guys to work "practically for nothing"...
http://everybobdylansong.blogspot.com/2008/09/bob-dylan-song-31-north-country-blues.html
The thing is, Obama is saying that people aren't really at their best when they're living in fear. That's how I see it, anyway. Plus, America was built a great deal on whip scarred black backs, as well.
I put a few more links in my comment to the article on taxes in this same blog. The people who take the most from this America really too often do not give enough back. What's left to fertilize our economy?