Life is difficult and then you die. In the interim, I try to get by and one of the things I do with the limited time I have is write blog posts.

That is never enough to satisfy some people, and one of the things that never fails to annoy me is the way some people write blog posts just exuding this attitude that because they wrote about this issue and you didn't that you really don't care, or don't care enough. It's haughty, sanctimonious and judgmental. There are plenty of things I care about that I don't write about or don't write about often, and I don't care to list them. But it just fries me when some asshat of a blogger gets into that scold-everyone-who-doesn't-care-as-much-as-I care mode.

If you don't blog about what I blog about, that means you don't care about what I care about, and it's obviously because you're selfish. Or self-absorbed.

"How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world? It's something we'll monitor, but Americans are somewhat self-absorbed."

If only such sentiments were limited to the left. Then the people on the right could argue the virtue of selfishness and politely ask the moralists to please fuck off.