Counterintuitive
By Mitch Berg
When people ask me “how do I make it as a blogger?” (which, admittedly, doesn’t happen every day – but it does happen, pinky swear), my response is always some variation of “write something every day”. Get into the discipline of writing something – a big magnum opus on your favorite topic, pictures of your cat, a quickie fisk of something you disagree with – anything. The discipline is what brings the improvement – not the other way around.
With that in mind, I direct you to one of the great unsung bloggers in the Twin Cities – and when I say “unsung”, that’s misleading, because Speed Gibson has an audience of discerning consumers, largely but not exclusively on the subject of education.
Sunday, he had a S reminder for everyone on the right; there are still surprises out there:
We on the right might be hidebound ourselves in thinking the media will always wear the union label. But many of these reporters and editors have kids in school themselves, and must face some union reality themselves. Regardless, they’re generally good people. The lack of results despite decades of promises and billions in targeted programs may have finally left them with no other conclusion.
Who is he talking about?
Read the article.
Which is the whole point of this article…
October 6th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Since this seems to be off-topic day, let me point out that he of the eponymous “fisk” is in the news again with his report that Arabs are thinking of repricing oil based on something other than the dollar. And as what happened with the reports that generated the verb, there are lots of folks saying he got this wrong, too.