Sunday, February 03, 2013
I'm back to blogging
It has been a long time since I
blogged. This is a bad thing. I have lots of excuses: work, moving, old age,
distractions, football, reading, quality television, laundry, blah, blah,
blah. But in truth it has come down to
only one thing—I am a lazy SOB who would rather push the buttons on the remote
control than the keys on my keyboard.
So, blogging has taken a back seat to Homeland, the NFL, the MLB network
and various and sundry shows which I am too embarrassed to list. (Susan knows what they are but she is sworn
to secrecy.
Part of the reason I have not blogged
is now that I am back to work I am somewhat constrained. Not by the office, no one there has ever told
me what I can blog about (with the exception of pending cases, of course), but
I feel that now that I am, again, a deputy district attorney, I should not
comment on aspects of criminal law that might be related to my work. I do not speak for the office on any subject,
so I think that I should perhaps leave alone issues directly pertaining to
criminal law, and I should be circumspect (use of this word is a shout out to
Pete, in writing about areas connected to criminal law. So I feel I should no longer comment on the
Holmes case or the Trayvon Martin killing, and I should be careful when writing
about larger issues like gun control and the legalization of marijuana.
What does
that leave? A lot, really, but often it
seems like since I work so much, I don’t think about much else. There is politics, which is always a ripe
subject, especially because our system has become so dysfunctional that it is
easy to take shots at our politicians.
However, aren’t we all so sick of politics that no one wants to read
that?
Sports is a
subject that I am well familiar with, very interested in, and have experience
writing about. (Did you know I was a
journalism major in college and was sports editor of the school newspaper? Did you know I won an award in high school
for best sports story in the nation? Do you care? I didn’t think so.) The only problem with writing about sports is
that for any of us who like sports there is a deluge of inept journalism and illiterate
blogging about the subject. I doubt most
of my blog readers (if there are any left) care to read my take on why the
Rockies will lose 100 games or whether professional football has become to
dangerous for its own good.
I do love
movies, and I would love to blog about movies, but there are no movies I want
to see. Really. I mean can I handle the intense drama of The
Impossible, the graphic depiction of torture in Zero Dark Thirty, or the
less-than-stellar singing in the drawn out Les Miserables. I have not wanted to answer those questions,
so I have not gone to a movie in a while.
I can hardly wait for summer when I can sit back watch some
smart-mouthed super hero engage in some big screen special effects.
There are
other issues which grab my interest from time to time. For example, I read the other day that some
bus driver left a local elementary school his life savings in his will,
$34,000. Now in the greater scheme of a
school budge $34,000 is not a huge amount of money, but, still, you would think
this could buy new computers, textbooks, part time teachers aides, field trips,
even help for the school lunch program.
But no, what they actually did was buy a $20,000 sign. I mean, really? I can understand a few grand on a new sign,
but $20,000? This is why I am skeptical
of spending more and more money on education.
It is not the money that is a problem, it is the educators. (No, not all. Every time I criticize
education I hear about some heroic teacher who does great work. I am sure there
are thousands, but I think in general the problem is not sufficient funding.)
What most of
my loyal followers want are more funny blogs.
It seems that there is not enough humor in the world and when I can
actually pull off one that makes people laugh those are the most
well-received. I will try to be
funnier. It is hard to be funny on
demand, but I will give it a shot regularly.
If there is
anyone still reading, thanks for doing so.
I will try to keep writing regularly.
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