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The Git Real Guide to Blogging I've read so many of your posts over the last year or so, and most I find to be pot stirrers. You stir the pot of discussion and encourage others to post in reply. Thats good, in that it encourages debate, but you often leave true debate behind and run off into your diatribes when certain political contests are brought up. You are certainly entitled to complain openly with your opinions, but your opinion is of little value when its cloaked from what your true biases are. For all we know you are some introvert, sitting in his momma's basement in Wisconsin, reading local papers from all over the country, while writing your comments anonymously on any and every subject that comes your way. I know, that is unlikely, but who you are says much more about how I view your opinions than almost any other single thing. You've made claims about your children, where they attend school, etc.. You've commented about having property in the midwest, and you've talked about the people you have met and know, myself included. But I still have no idea who you are. Some have suggested Steve Brown, and if so, then your opinion's value is thereby effected by this point. If you are not Steve, and you wish to remain hidden from the true light of public criticism, well that is your right. But you must know that although these blogs have caused some stirring discussions at local dinner parties and gatherings, their real effect is very limited. Sure many talk about Git Real, Muddle, and Dollaraday, but the opinions of those who are not willing to share thier true identities will forever be dismissed as of little importance. Its also sometimes called "put up or shut up!" So rant and rave against whomever has ticked you off. Make shrill and unfounded accusations predicated upon hearsay and rumors of which you are the only one in the know. Continue to cast aspertions about anybody and everybody that tends to question your view of this or that subject, but understand my personal opinion about you and almost every person who makes their comments from the protective shield of personal and public criticism by posting with an anonymous name, that your opinions have little value, unless and until your name accompanies your opinions. Now, get ready to tell momma to hold the Peanut and Jelly sandwich for your lunch. Turn off your myspace, facebook and instant messengers for an hour or so, and fire off one of your patented responses that trash me personally for holding a view that you find humorous. Yeah, I'm an attorney, so make some SA comment about that. But remember, it is I, and not you, or Dollaraday, that has placed my name on what we say. Yeah, thats dangerous for me, to place my name out there within a public forum about public matters, but thats the only way to speak truth to what we have to say about matters we find important. So continue to trash me, and all those running for Dan's old seat, or whoever is running for public office that hasn't bowed down and worshipped your moniker publically. I'll just sit back and reflect after all of these elections of how very little these little blogs have effected their outcomes. *** 
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