The Blog Mob
“Written by fools to be read by imbeciles.”

BY JOSEPH RAGO
Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST

“…….The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age. The bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage. Instead, they ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps…….

…….Because political blogs are predictable, they are excruciatingly boring. More acutely, they promote intellectual disingenuousness, with every constituency hostage to its assumptions and the party line. Thus the right-leaning blogs exhaustively pursue second-order distractions–John Kerry always providing useful material–while leaving underexamined more fundamental issues, say, Iraq. Conservatives have long taken it as self-evident that the press unfavorably distorts the war, which may be the case; but today that country is a vastation, and the unified field theory of media bias has not been altered one jot……..

…….Of course, once a technosocial force like the blog is loosed on the world, it does not go away because some find it undesirable. So grieving over the lost establishment is pointless, and kind of sad. But democracy does not work well, so to speak, without checks and balances. And in acceding so easily to the imperatives of the Internet, we’ve allowed decay to pass for progress.

Mr. Rago is an assistant editorial features editor at The Wall Street Journal. ” for more blathering: WSJ.com

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On a hunch I decided to investigate this story further and headed to Mr Rago’s residence with a strong feeling I might have an exclusive story…. I was not disappointed. As fate would dictate, I arrived at the Rago domicile just in time to witness a time honored tradition of the Rago’s. I was right!!!

Mr Rago is a purist at heart and scoffs at modern, progressive ways. He is not one to easily jump on the bandwagon of modern plumbing, instead he holds dear the time honored traditions of the Outhouse Era. Say what you will about Mr Ragos beliefs but respect his passion in the fight against indoor plumbing.

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