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Blogs are silly

I tried out the whole blog thing for a while and found it tough to keep up. I abandoned it for a while, but I'm going to keep using it to post short stories I write and various other things. In case you're wondering.

Some video

Some would call me a leftist, I imagine, so I feel somewhat obligated to respond to this . Here's his argument. Something like this? Correct me if I'm being dishonest. 1) Liberals look at history and the ideologies of man, the forms of government, religion, and so forth have not stopped war, poverty, crime, injustice, etc. 2) Liberals think that since all these ideas of man have proved to be wrong, the source of all war, etc., must be found in the attempt to be right, because if nobody tried to be right we wouldn't disagree we wouldn't fight, we wouldn't go to war, which means no crime, etc. 3) Therefore, liberals conclude, we must reject all fact, reason, truth, logic, morality, and decency, just like in the song "Imagine." 4) To achieve this devious goal, liberals thus elevate everything that is wrong and tear down everything that is right. Evidence: Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. NYT breaking the Abu Ghraib scandal. Newsweek's Koran story. The