NO!! I WON'T DO IT!!!
Every once in a while some well-meaning fan of mine suggests that I do a blog, as if my occasional commentaries on this site are not good enough. Ok, I know that I'm the greatest mind in human history (tee hee hee) and there are folks out there who just cannot get enough of my supreme wisdom but I just cannot see how anyone would want to read a daily journal about sore bones and a stuffed nose!
My work may be interesting but, like everyone else, my daily life is not. And I just so no reason why my readers should have to put up with every rhume and whine that I could come up with. I would only succeed in making myself look really dumb, which is frankly what the vast majority of bloggers do.
Ok, there are some good ones, ones that have commentary that actually means something, ideas that are worth reading even if they are somewhat divorced from reality (at this point looking around the lab and wondering if I have just called the pot black). There are people who actually do the hard work of research and can back up what they say. But if you ever actually look at some of the sites where they pay people to write blogs you cannot help but wonder what trailer park these people crawled out of! I'm sorry, if someone is going to say something, I want to know what their qualifications, education, experience, etc. qualifies them to even have an opinion and the fact is that the bulk of them do not. If they did, they would set up their own site to discuss the matter.
The truly bizarre thing is that they live under the illusion that what they say matters, as if the folks who actually do the work of running (or ruining as the case may be) the country are really going to worry about the unsupported ravings of someone in Podunk. And I truly feel sorry for the poor Roman Catholics who get lectured by a convert with a history of mental illness. (I actually have a handwritten letter from one of those nut jobs and someday I may scan it and put it online so people can see how crazy someone can be in her own hand. In fact it might be fun to create a website just dedicated to showing the funny hate mail I've gotten over the years, the threat from the German bureaucrat was hilarious and I would have loved to have seen the look on his face when he got the famous one-word quote in reply, "Nuts!" but that is probably why no one bothers me, they know the response that they will get.)
So please, no more requests for a blog. I just don't have time or the desire.