Don’tcha wish certain blogs had filters? Like you could just click a button, and say, “Hey, I like the posts Joe-Bob makes on Movies, Work, and Cheese, but I wish to God I didn’t even have to scroll past the stuff on Highlander<\/i> or his That Damned Governor Who Doesn’t Know His Ass from a Hole in the Ground.”<\/p>\n
Yeah, me, too.<\/p>\n
Heck, probably have some readers who wish the same thing about this site, too. “If Dave posts one more thing about Iraq\/his kid\/his church\/gaming\/comic books, I’m going to not only delete him from my blogroll, I’m going to drive his Internet host into bankruptcy so that he never posts anything again.”<\/p>\n
On the other hand, if we only read stuff we agreed with, we’d never change our minds. And if we read only read stuff we liked, we’d — well, it would feel like we’re not in school any more. And we’re always <\/i>in school, kids … that’s sort of the whole point of this particular exercise known as life.<\/p>\n
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