The following is text I originally wrote for The Ploy, I don’t think it reads very good as text but I think it sounds quite good as audio.
The rudeness and shear inhumanity of human beings is never more present and clearer straight after the death of somebody. Tony Snow, former press secretary to President Bush and a former host on FOX News Channel died two weeks ago after a long courageous battle with cancer.
His views differ significantly from mine, but beyond politics, beyond the roles he played in media. He was a human being battling one of our worst enemies as a people, cancer. He was always positive, upbeat and always made a point of putting his family before his jobs and beyond his own health. His last 12 months were spent making sure his family had adequate funds to function after his passing.
He left a job he loved as Press Secretary to work in the private sector to do just that, he was a decent human being by all accounts. But as unfortunately what happens far too often, immediately following his death there were attacks at his character, at his former jobs and of his legacy.
The kind of human being who gets cheap thrills by disparaging someone who was brave, honorable and decent, but because of their political views should be disrespected by those who disagree; those people are the people who should be suffering.
Not Tony’s family, not his friends and not the rest of us for having to put up with their sick perspectives.
As you may have noticed if you frequent the site, I have not posted much lately, although I have been a little more busy than usual it’s not got to do with that. April 7th is the last time I did a regular post and even that was a follow up.
The reason for the lack of new material is I have none. As someone who enjoys writing, blogging and broadcasting it is the worst thing to happen, however there is nothing that sparks my interest lately enough to write about. The U.S. elections feel like they have been stuck in the same position for months, nothing new there. Locally, there isn’t much to talk about. Personally - zilch interesting. So I am stuck in a position writing about how I don’t have anything to write about. Which usually is an excruciating thing to read, but I feel I have to put something new on the blog, and at least this is original and something I put (meagre) effort into.
The problem with a blog is it needs to be updated regularly, unlike a normal website which could not be updated for extended periods of time and no one would bat an eyelid. However because a blog has a sense of immediacy and with functions such as RSS, people get content straight away and can comment on it as soon as it’s posted.
So I am stuck in a position of having nothing worthwhile to post about, so I either do the lazy thing (which I have done quite a bit of) and just post videos or articles. Or I leave the blog collecting dust. Neither prospect seems beneficial to the site. So I decided I had to do something and at least explain the delay of new material.
So there we go, now I just hope there is something I can feel empowered to write about soon. Otherwise - stand by for 20 posts about how there isn’t anything to post about. It’s going to be exciting.
