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July 12, 2004
It hurts, but can't change my mind....
I wish it hadn't happened, but it has. The great Rachel Lucas has quit blogging again, and this time it appears permanent. Reasons? I don't have time and my typing fingers literally do not have the strength, and besides, honestly, if I were to blog at this point in America's history, it would almost entirely consist of me screaming about how much I hate stupid people, politicians, Democrats, socialists, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood activists, and all the other various and assorted ass-knobs who fill the news each day. I cannot bear it. Besides, I truly do not have any original insight. I don't, and all who ever thought I did were fooling themselves. I can rant and I might be able to string nice bitchy words together but I can't tell any of you one single thing you either don't know already or that you can't find in better form somewhere else. Read Drudge every day, more than once. Watch the Fox News Channel. Listen to Neal Boortz. Vote Republican, not because Republicans are always right (they are not) but because Republicans are the only chance we have of not being ruled by Democrats, who, in this day in America, are so disturbingly like the Socialists and various other baby Fascists of early-20th-century Europe that it is frankly appalling. Anyone can know these things if one just knows one's history. So that is it from me for now. (Via One Little Victory.)I won't forget Rachel (although I started blogging too late). It's very discouraging, and while I can understand her reasoning, I think she's being too hard on herself, because she was one of the most original and articulate thinkers on the Internet. I completely disagree with her self assessment that she "can't tell any of you one single thing you either don't know already or that you can't find in better form somewhere else" because she often posted about things I didn't know, and which were not to be found in better form somewhere else. She's either wrong about that, or else blogging itself is a worthless, useless activity. I'm sorry that Rachel left the blogosphere on a depressing note. And it's a rainy, dreary, depressing, day today. Not much I can do about any of it. I can't even quit. Seriously. The gods told me I had to do this for three years (of which one year is up), so quitting is simply not allowed. As Rachel might have put it: No. matter. what. happens. I run and do exercises every day, rain or shine, like it or not, and I intend to treat blogging the same way. I've dealt with depression, death, and more, and blogging at its very worst consists of forcing yourself to post, no matter what your mental state. I'll just have to do that. And if I don't like it (or if a black mood overwhelms me), I'll just tough it out the same way one might wait out a bad acid trip. Nothing lasts forever. But even when it hurts, as an existential experience, I am enjoying this. Especially now that I have two more bloggers aboard. . .
Sure you won't change your mind, Rachel? UPDATE: Ambivalence? Can it be? Hope so. There isn't enough common sense in the world, and to lose Rachel's would be a victory for those who have none, or want us to have none. (Their numbers include, of course -- but are not limited to -- "stupid people, politicians, Democrats, socialists, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood activists, and all the other various and assorted ass-knobs who fill the news each day.") UPDATE: Check this out! I've never been happier to have been wrong than I am right now! posted by Eric on 07.12.04 at 06:37 PM |
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That's tragic. Rachel Lucas was one of the first bloggers I ever read. I was reading and commenting on her blog for a long time. She. Had. _Style_!
"Ass-knobs"! What other blogger writes about "ass-knobs"? You certainly won't find _that_ on Drudge's site, and _certainly_ not on FOX or any other TV.
It was Rachel Lucas who got Bill Whittle started -- and now he has compiled his essays into a book. It was through Rachel Lucas that I first heard of Arthur Silber's Light of Reason when he was just starting out. And it was on _his_ blog that I met _you_ -- and Jeanine Ring.
Good-bye, Rachel. We will miss you.