I’m always self-conscience of everything I write. I often lie awake at night and wonder what I was thinking when I wrote this or that. So I thought I’d look up some other local blogs, and see if my sometimes off the wall writings are an anomaly in the blogging world. Nope!
(My take is in italic)
From Energy Tough Love Blog:
Squirrels don’t leave carbon footprints; let them rule the Earth!
From The Eleventh Hour:
Serious Insights: In Your Face(book) Edition:
“A blog is a much better place than Facebook to wear your politics and religion on your sleeve.”
Plus, I might add, you don’t have to have any friends!
From the Capitol Fax Blog:
As if cancer, heart disease and certain early death weren’t enough….
..you voted for most of the ChangeDecatur candidates.
From First Reading
Davlin: Springfield’s better off than most of Illinois
And this is good news???
From The Capitol Fax Blog
Monk is cooperating, and is investigation moving closer to Jackson?
Monks? Rod Blagojevich? Oh, never mind!
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There’s been some discussion in the community about anonymous bloggers and the potential harm that they can do to public individuals. Just a scan through the Herald & Review’s Letters to the Editor Blog is enough to make one turn in their homo sapien chromosomes and trade them in for a higher life form: snakes, worms, slugs. But anonymous “blogging” is nothing new in America, in fact, Abraham Lincoln was an anonymous blogger!
Lincoln would often use pen names and write letters to the editor to the Sangamo Journal, one of Springfield’s early newspapers. The most famous of these letters were satirical pieces Lincoln wrote about his political adversary James Shields. Yes, before Four score and seven years…, Lincoln wrote his fair share of less than noteworthy literary pieces. He wasn’t alone either; his future wife, Mary Todd, was in on the action as well.
Lincoln, through his assumed identities, lampooned Shields poor policies and mismanagement of his duties. Throughout this series of letters, Lincoln’s friends Mary Todd and Julia Jayne also began sending letters of their own. (The Duel that Could Have Changed the Nation)
I recommend reading the entire article above. It really is quite funny how people really haven’t changed. It’s also fun to note, that Shields and Lincoln became good friends after this embarrasing incident.
Wow you should be a private investigator. Cool info. Did you see they are working on the On the Go gas station? I heard another gas company had bought it last year and it looks like they have begun the process of reopening it.
Yes, I’ve been watching the progress of both gas stations. It”ll be great for the neighborhood to have the former Clark station reopened – with better management, I hope. The other station is being repainted. I’m very happy to see that.
I read about Lincoln’s duel in several books but that article I found is written very well and detailed. The thought of Lincoln dueling on a sand bar in the middle of the Mississippi River over some letters to the editor is pretty funny. He remained embarrassed of the event, even till his time in the White House. He once told a friend, “If you’re a friend, you’ll never bring that story up again.” Or something like that. I’ll have to look up the story to get the exact words.
Kris this is so cool too funny!! So Lincoln was at one point an anoymous blogger but looks like he learned his lesson from the ordeal!! Great news about the stop & go! That used to be one of my favorite gas stations – just liked the location near my area as well and less congested than 51 and Pershing area – where we still have 2 empty stop and go stations that really need something to happen- they look terrible right on this prime entry way of our city!!
Okay, I don’t mean to be a picky prude but the paint job on that gas station is awful. It looks like some of it was painted with a broom – especially the side door. Not that I’m a better painter.
I did the same thing on the metal door leading into my garage. My dad asked me if I painted it with a broom and I got a little perturbed. I also painted the interior side of my front door with the WRONG paint. It was paint meant for tractors and machinery. Now I know to read the can. Lord have mercy it stunk and for like forever! I couldn’t have the windows open either because it was in the 90′s. It was so awful.
But I sure hope they’re not done painting because it looks bad.
Kris I saw them painting it I hope all the bee’s hang out there LOL. I saw the crew working on the building and patching the roof.
I can’t belive that stop and go wasn’t a money maker. What happened with last people?
It would make it easier for my sweet tooth late at night. I went in the yellow and red one once last year. He has a huge assortment of bongs and pipes. I felt like I was in mexico. I think I will like the other one better.
Doug, LOL!
I only went in the now yellow/red station once in all the years I’ve lived in our neighborhood. The guy at the register was rude and I hated that little lot. It’s a pain to get in and out of. It looked A LOT better when it was a Hucks. After it changed hands it went downhill quick.
I’ll be happy when the other station reopens. I’m not sure what happened but I think there were tax issues – at least that’s what a teller told my husband.
Maybe we can get them to have a gas war!
Again that Ken Lowe is way too funny check this out:
One thing is certain about the vacant seat: It’s bleeping golden, and you don’t just give something like that away for nothing. Watchdogs should be on the lookout for anybody visiting McElroy with a couple bottles of Jack and/or a party platter of cheeseburgers.
http://herald-review.com/blogs/rollcall/?p=48
LOL!!
Well, they’ve never had gas wars in the past. They usually have the same exact price – both higher than other stations in Decatur too.
I go to Thortons on Mound Round. Their prices are usually the best and they don’t raise and lower them 20 cents every other day based upon the news. I don’t give gas stations that play that game my business.
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I saw that piece from Ken. I wonder who McElroy has in mind? He said he has someone he’d like to recommend but hasn’t publicly said who yet.
How is that City Council person selected?
What criteria are employed?
What is the law governing such matters?
Should anyone who ran and lost be selected?
Does the public have any say in the matter of who will represent us as an appointee on our City Council?
Are these questions permissible?
Does anyone really care?
In light of such a dismal voter turnout the answer would appear to be negative.
Eric K. Johnson @ Yellow Zone
Speaking of Pirates and not intending to change the subject but Piratin’ ain’t nothin’ new… I’m just sayin’.
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
Kurt Vonnegut
Submitted by Eric K. Johnson
It was in Oklahoma City,
It was on a Christmas Day,
There come a whole car load of groceries
With a letter that did say:
You say that I’m an outlaw,
You say that I’m a thief.
Well, here’s a Christmas dinner
For the families on relief.
Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
And as through your life you ramble,
Yes, as through your life you roam,
You won’t never see an outlaw
Drive a family from their home.
Woody Guthrie ( The single good thing I can say about Oklahomastan is that the State produced Woody Guthrie)
Submitted by Eric K. Johnson
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
Kurt Vonnegut
Hmm? Does anyone remember Shock and Awe?
One million innocent Iraqi’s are still dead.
Three million Vietnamese, Laotians and innocent Cambobians are still dead.
Innocent civilians in Panama and Nicaragua are still dead.
How many more innocent civilians will be exterminated by AmeriCorp.?… What and who are the real outlaws?
The butcher of Cambodia Henry Kissinger continues to live a life of luxury any Pirate across time would envy!
Ollie North is a famous public figure who had his own “program” on Faux News.
bushCo. and his gang of neo-con co-conspirators have spirited away and Spain is forced to enforce the laws of The United States as well as International law?
Who was heartless and greedy?
The word terrible comes to mind…as in “gone terribly awry”.
Eric K. Johnson
Cambodians too ,Skipper!
E.K.J.
http://www.chris-floyd.com/
Bob Dylan cover’s Woody
Two outlaws in a pod !
Eric K. Johnson