I went to MT’s official site to look up some documentation on their software. Off to the side on their main page, they have a list of recently updated MT-powered blogs. Is it just me or do most of the blogs out there deal with politics? I think there were around 15 links to different sites and around 12 of them were political blogs in some fashion. Some were near professional (and very well done), some looked like the collected thoughts of a casual political observer and then there were some that looked like they came straight out of the Alabama Aryan Militia official newsletter.

Basically, it was a mixed bag of ideas spread across the entire political spectrum. It almost makes me wonder if I’m utilizing my webspace and bandwidth effectively. I am getting older (as in I’m too old for a Xanga dripping with angst and Linkin Park lyrics), yet I care more about the social hierarchy of Lilian Academy than American foreign policy.

Maybe I’m not seeing the appeal here, but is it that much fun to push one’s own political agenda onto others? It’s as if most of these people bought a domain name, paid for webspace and then automatically defaulted to talking about politics because they realized that they have nothing else to write about (sound familiar?). There is also the possibility that people maintain blogs about politics because it’s one of those “universal” topics that draw a lot of visitors (i.e. attention whores). I thought writing about anime episodes was unsexy, but pandering political drivel is much worse. To top it all off, most of these blogs suck. It’s okay to have an opinion but your opinion is shit if you can’t even convey it right. Here is an example.

Some Random Blog

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Wait, who shot who in the what now? What’s interesting? Do you agree with this article? Do you think it’s written by Satan? Don’t trick me with your devious mind games! Say something, homeboy!

There’s a problem when half of your entries are copy-paste jobs of news articles found on the internet (or even worse, just a link) with minimal analysis. People have told me that the appeal of my site isn’t what I write about, it’s how I write it. So this means…

LK.com > most of the blogs out there

I win. Discuss.