Friends, readers, bloggers, lend me your ears:
I come to bury stupidity, not to praise it;
the blogs that we write live after us,
the good writing is often interred WayBack,
So let it be with Kos… The noble Glenn
Hath told you Kos was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Kos answered it…
Here, leaving for dead Kos and the rest of the left,
(For Kos is an honourable man;
So are they all; well, not all, but it sounds good)
Come I to linkwhore from Glenn’s funereal link …
He has been my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Kos says he was ambitious,
And Kos is an honourable man…
Except that he and his ilk want a blogger’s union.
Say what?
Yeah. Even I am at a loss for words.
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August 6, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Gonna take a bit to wrap my mind around this one. I thought most (if not all) bloggers started this trip on and for a more personal level? I surely did, anyway.
I have this Orwellian bad feeling about this though. If you think about it long enough, you will catch the drift.
There’s a bad moon rising (and it ain’t an old ’70′s rock song).
August 6, 2007 at 6:48 pm
There’s an Orwellian sense from the long-time bloggers perspective, too, WG. I give credit to you Venomites for sparing me the majority of it, but I witness it at other blogs.
Wherein it goes something like this:
(1) We read your blog because we want to;
(2) We tell you to blog for yourself;
(3) However, when you don’t blog about things we like or — worse yet — blog so that it’s OBVIOUS you’re trying to earn money, we’ll bitch;
(4) How dare you give us an opportunity bitch;
(5) Tell us more, more, MORE about your personal life;
(6) Now let us shit on you.
I am very, VERY fortunate that the Venomites tend to be those who found this blog right about the time I was starting out and had a cold-water introduction to steps 3 through 6. Most of you know full well the incident to which I refer.
And while I’d love to claim that’s all long behind me now, it does color the things I blog about these days.
Being able to make a living from blogging the same ol’ stuff that precipitated the incident to which I refer: priceless.
August 6, 2007 at 7:28 pm
So a “Bloggers Union” is for those who like to party with Parties?
August 6, 2007 at 8:18 pm
There ya go!
August 6, 2007 at 7:27 pm
A blogger’s union makes as much sense as avoiding martinis because “it isn’t good to drink alone.”
August 6, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Heh, that was Wichi Dude, not me, Kate.
I have to admit, I actually was speechless for several minutes when I read about this proposed union. All I could think was, That has to be the most ultimate liberal idea EVER. And then I laughed, long and heartily.
See, I’m not only a union member in one of the largest unions in the US, but I’m a shop steward as well. (That fact ought to thoroughly perplex anybody, by the by, since unions and my other political proclivities tend to go hand in hand like hand grenades and a curious 3 year old. All I can say is, it’s better than the alternative.)
Think about it, though. Is this not the most classic example of liberalism you’ve ever, ever seen? People who, in the words of some MSM mogul I can’t remember, were derided as “guys in their pajamas” writing for themselves and their audience…these are people who were driven to write, wanted to write, needed to write, had things to say, had a message and were passionate about whatever they decided to blog on. Now they wanna be organized, and, I’m sad to say, want to be able to tell the little guys what to do, because when it comes right down to it, that’s what unions are about: Unite in the name of WE, and decide that whatever is In Everybody’s Best Interest is the official party line. Everybody down to the lowliest Morlock had better toe the line, and there are shop stewards there to stay on the bullhorns and keep everybody in step.
Okay, I know that was a horribly mixed set of metaphors, but at least it sort of made my point. Unions don’t exist in a vacuum, they fizzle and die out when “The Man” isn’t there to fight against. Unions only thrive when they are united by whatever is worse than the naturally lazy “leave me alone in my hole and let me do my job” mindset that is the typical employee.
The only conceivable reason for a blogger’s union is to keep the message united, and in effect turn it into a host of little reflections of the mainstream media….and I’d bet you 10 to 1 it’s being led by a bunch of nitwits that haven’t outgrown being the Senior Class Student Government.
And now I shall continue laughing at their imminent downfall. Most of the time, people like that are kinda like a Slinky…not really good for anything, but you can’t help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.
August 6, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Absolutely!
On KnoxNews I said we need a professional society so we can have conventions so we don’t have drink alone.
August 7, 2007 at 8:41 am
Glad I’m not the only one who faltered when reading the proposed union. So they want health care and such — aren’t they making enough on THEIR blogs to pay for it themselves?
Colossally bad idea.