I heard this thing on the radio today about blogs and their impact on journalism. This person, whose name I don’t remember, maintained that blogs (including this one I presume) deal in the dissemination of information, and are thus journalism. He implied that because of this, blog ‘journalists’ should be held to similar standards of ethics that regular journalists are pledged to respect.
     That may be. I can see where integrity and honor, adherence to the truth, and fundamental ideological balance, would and should be applied to some of the more seriously intentioned would-be reporters. However, I also believe in the reader’s responsibility to not be a shmuck, to be a little selective, and to try to think about who in the hell is writing what they are reading, but whatever. 
     That’s not my point.
     So, just to be clear, here is a little transparency:

     I am totally full of crap. If I ever talk about anything news-like, then I will always site an actual news story from some actual news agency. And it will be someone reputable, like CNN or something. The things I say are my opinion, and poorly researched opinion at that. If you, the reader, choose to believe anything I say without first checking the facts yourself, then don’t blame me if you sound like an ass. You have no idea who I am. I could be a 7-year-old boy with a low IQ an unnatural obsession with Pokemon, (I am not) or a sixty five year old retired tilt-a-whirl operator with a drinking problem who hides scotch in the toilet tank and who voted for David Duke, (also not true). I could be anybody. So take anything I might say with a giant, lick sized, grain of salt.
     And I might say anything.

     George W. Bush is a Douche Bag.

     See.
  
     So just keep that in mind. I am not the news. I am some asshole who is just trying to be funny, and who has an unhealthy interest in current events. Just so we’re straight.