Are you up on the latest news? Have you read this weeks' headlines? Well if you have, don't tell me. I don't want to hear about them. I admit it! I'm not a political animal. I never was one. This happens to be my parents' fault--while my Dad has an opinion on anything and everything, not only including, but especially the political scene (it ranks right up there with sports), he did not pass it on to me. (Well, he passed on the opinionatedness, just not the knowledge of anything remotely political. Well, all right, so I know I'm a Republican. And I like George Bush. George W. Bush. The other one didn't have enough backbone.)
So can I be blamed for my parents inadvertant omission? Well, don't answer that one--I know I can be. I really could have taken the trouble to be interested earlier in life, I suppose. I could have skipped "Scaramouche" and read "National Review" instead. But what was a 10-year-old kid to do? Politics simply weren't interesting enough. Now, of course, I regret that I did not spend the extra time educating myself until I could spout Tom Daschle with the rest of them. Because now, you see, I realize how much in the minority I am--the whole intellectual scene teems with people who know their Ashcroft from their Rehnquist, and who would be delighted to give you their opinion on the Supreme Court. (I could give you an opinion on the Supreme Court. It wouldn't be complimentary.) Your typical intellectual can speak authoritatively on any subject faintly political. I, on the other hand, can only give you my clearly conservative opinion. This may not be all bad--at least I would take the trouble of researching every issue I was asked about, and so my political knowledge would slowly but surely grow. But methinks I already see the look on your face. I understand. Right-wingers, such as I, are not IN. Liberals are in (and you thought I didn't know that!); the more Left, the better! You never see journalists ranting at Liberals, do you? (Or do you?) Of course, it's old hat now to say that the media is biased. The media goes right on denying it, but it's really a lost cause, because--as anyone with more than half a brain knows--they're more liberal than the liberals. Such is life.
So now you know why this weblog will never be popular. But that's all right. Popularity may keep its own--I remain unabashedly and unreservedly Right-Wing! God save America, and may He give those journalists something to rant about!
So can I be blamed for my parents inadvertant omission? Well, don't answer that one--I know I can be. I really could have taken the trouble to be interested earlier in life, I suppose. I could have skipped "Scaramouche" and read "National Review" instead. But what was a 10-year-old kid to do? Politics simply weren't interesting enough. Now, of course, I regret that I did not spend the extra time educating myself until I could spout Tom Daschle with the rest of them. Because now, you see, I realize how much in the minority I am--the whole intellectual scene teems with people who know their Ashcroft from their Rehnquist, and who would be delighted to give you their opinion on the Supreme Court. (I could give you an opinion on the Supreme Court. It wouldn't be complimentary.) Your typical intellectual can speak authoritatively on any subject faintly political. I, on the other hand, can only give you my clearly conservative opinion. This may not be all bad--at least I would take the trouble of researching every issue I was asked about, and so my political knowledge would slowly but surely grow. But methinks I already see the look on your face. I understand. Right-wingers, such as I, are not IN. Liberals are in (and you thought I didn't know that!); the more Left, the better! You never see journalists ranting at Liberals, do you? (Or do you?) Of course, it's old hat now to say that the media is biased. The media goes right on denying it, but it's really a lost cause, because--as anyone with more than half a brain knows--they're more liberal than the liberals. Such is life.
So now you know why this weblog will never be popular. But that's all right. Popularity may keep its own--I remain unabashedly and unreservedly Right-Wing! God save America, and may He give those journalists something to rant about!
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