Brave New Blog

The Wall Street journal ran an obituary not long ago for Christopher Hitchens.  Actually, it was a review of Hitchens' final work, "Mortality," but in view of the subject matter of the book (Hitchen's impending demise) and in view of subsequent events (namely, Hitchens actual demise), it read an awful lot like an obituary.  The headline was "A Wit Rages Before the Abyss."  I liked that idea.  It kind of reminded of Lt. Dan, laughing into the hurricane, or Slim Pickens riding the A-Bomb into World War III.  I think that's kind of what a blog is.  I can rant and rave into the cyber-abyss of the world wide web, pretend that someone is actually listening, and then go to sleep at night with a comfortably inflated sense of my own self-importance.  Genius.  This whole internet thing is great.  Hats of to you, Al Gore.