Alas, it seems a lot of the busiest blogging political activists aren’t really dealing with ideas, so much as they are personalities. They see elected officials as celebrities. They want to see their favorite politicians, even their paid staffers, as “rock stars.” They don’t seem to be bothered by the implication that follows — doesn’t that make most of them groupies, and little else?

You have just taken the disorganized, unformed thoughts that have been bubbling up in my head during the past few months and given them form and logic. Yes, you’re absolutely right. I’ve seen myself writing in this same manner, and I look back on it and realize how utterly worthless such blog entries are, how little that I’ve added to the world by writing such banalities.

Thank you for your kind words, Terry.

You are a splendid writer. I loved your piece on the parrot that sounded like a car alarm. I also followed your coverage of the General Assembly during the winter. I liked it and recommended it to others. But I can’t say I remember much of it, except in a general sense.

The parrot story still makes me laugh.

Beyond your writing, in my book, more bloggers who see themselves as “political bloggers” should consider that adding some diversity to their subject matter would broaden the appeal of their web sites beyond the “echo chamber.” It might even develop them into better writers, too. And, of course, sometimes to reach a general audience with a political idea, one should wrap it in a story that plays more as a slice of life than transparent propaganda.

Alas, it seems a lot of the busiest blogging political activists aren’t really dealing with ideas, so much as they are personalities. They see elected officials as celebrities. They want to see their favorite politicians, even their paid staffers, as “rock stars.” They don’t seem to be bothered by the implication that follows — doesn’t that make most of them groupies, and little else?

I’m looking forward to the Blog Summit. It should be lively.

– Terry

It is posts like this—even if not political in nature—that prove that you are probably the best blogger in Virginia. This is excellent writing.

The Tramp

The of? Methinks you need some copy editing.

She just didn’t tell me.

Marriage has proven so much more surreal bizarre than anyone ever warned me. Fortunately, it is also so much *better* than I was ever led to expect, too. :)