Too Much Red

I went back and edited yesterday’s post in order to take the red out--- all that red seemed too hysterical.

I’ve often thought about a blogger’s ability to go back in time and alter an old post. I’m not comfortable with the practice, it smacks too much of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth. Having predicted the end of things as we know them should we be entitled to return a year later and "predict" that things as we know them would stay pretty much the same?

When our blog attracted readers exactly because it was a shameless record of our emotional disintegration, an exercise in the absence of all sense of privacy, and a baring of personal nastinesses, is it fair, is it honest, is it healthy to go back a year or two later and paint ourselves as Mary Sunshine bravely carrying on through the whole rotten mess?

Writing About Politics

If you are an ordinary, day-to-day, blogger--- living perhaps in some American backwater like Dismal Seepage, Nebraska---is there any reason to continue to write about current politics? What could be accomplished and who would care? After all, we Dismal Seepagites are not journalists, and we are not placed to unearth news of fresh disasters.

As for opinions, we have by now run out of new ones and our readers, if any, either know, or can deduce, any changes we might ring on the old ones.