Posted 6:41 PM by Gene

I was in little mood to post today -- especially after reading this one from TNR.com. The Messiah said something about Israel that appealed to two liberal blogging bigmouths who are opposites on the matter. I guess that means he knows how to talk, said the poster. Oh no, said somebody, he's a Rorschach test. Besides, said another, one of said bloggers is an anti-Semite. The anti-Semite is Jewish, said another. His mother's Jewish, said another, but he sounds like an anti-Semite. And so on. And so on and so on. And so on and so on and so on. Too much of the Web is like a convention of mothers-in-law. There is not one unspoken opinion on the whole wired universe, except the unspoken word of the truth, which surely alights on a few of us; but to find it alighting one goes blind before a monitor. I am tired of the wild goose chase that has become consuming news on the Net, and am more tired still of having to make snazzy remarks when so much of the news doesn't even merit an ape's grunt. That's why I was in little mood to post today.