Larry Murdock: “Blogging is a better way of disseminating one’s thoughts than sitting on the bench in front of the County Courthouse whittling and shooting the breeze with a couple of old-timers.”
Dad’s been forwarding me interesting bits he reads on the web with his own insights attached for years, and I finally convinced him to put these kinds of things in a blog so the rest of the world can enjoy them too. Dad’s an excellent writer and is one of the most creative, articulate, and intelligent people I’ve ever known (though he seemed remarkably stupid between about 1987 and 1991, when I briefly knew more about the world than he did). I owe him a lot.
The world is more then blogging. Not everyone reads blogs :)
From what he has published there so far, I don’t think that you can be accused of undue pride. He is truly insightful and wonderfully articulate.
I, for one, hope that he continues to regularly post his reflections on various current envents. His writings invoke Lewis Lapham to some extent (which I consider to be a very good thing).