Why blog?

Because this isn't a political blog, but a collection of my musings, I try not to write about only one thing. And, to be honest, writing about the current unpleasantness in Washington and the world would be too utterly depressing if it were full time work. And my entries are sporadic, anyway, and outrages happen in DC more than daily. I just couldn't keep up.

Blogs have been around since 1994, but took off in 1998. There are now approximately 60 million blogs out there in the ether, representing people venting, telling their personal stories, providing political commentary, and displaying pix of their cats. Why do we feel the need to send our precious words into cyberspace? Is it like sending a probe to Mars, hoping that something interesting will come back with the space craft? I admit to enjoying trying to figure out who is reading my stuff based on the records in the site meter. I have regular readers in Missouri, Masachusets, and, of course, Minneapolis, although the Minnie readers could just come to the house and ask me. But the anonymity of reading someone's diary at a distance, with no chance of getting caught, is a pretty cool feature of modern life. But, of course, with site meter I can catch you.