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Blogging is a pastime of peace. Only a tiny minority of extremist bloggers actually kill their wives. Just because Keown killed his wife doesn’t show that all bloggers are wife killers any more than Timothy McVeigh shows that all blonde-haired, blue-eyed whiteys are terrorists.
Instead of stereo-typing bloggers, we should be looking for root causes for why Keown killed his wife. The anti-bloggerism of the dominant media has clearly driven bloggers to desperation. Instead of cracking down on bloggers and inflaming them to more extreme blogging, we should give them job training and affirmative action programs to so that they won’t be attracted to anti-social blogging and instead help them become productive members of society.
Mr. Keown is the real victim here of the dominant media power structure in 21st Century Amerikka.
I’m sorry, HA…I take offense at the racial slur, “whitey”. My heritage is one of pride and accomplishments. Did you know white people invented toilet paper? Look it up if you don’t believe me. When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon it was white people who put the Tang in the little plastic bags.
Stop with your hate and use the proper term Caucasoid-American-Of-Vaguely-European-Ancestory.
Mr. Keown had not been blogging long but he seemed to have a knack for it. It would seem he is facing a long ordeal and the blogger in me can’t help but wondering what it would be like to blog my way through a first degree murder trail. Has there ever been such a blog? Perhaps blogging would be the last thing on my mind but I could imagine slipping notes to my lawyer and asking her to post them. Probably not a good legal strategy but one could imagine interesting Google ads.
Stop with your generalizations, my website is not a blog and I’m proud of my heritage as an itinerant commenter. There have not been any documented murders by blog commenters and enduring a murder trial as a commenter would be very tedious so I shall remain a non-murderer and non-blogger by choice.
It’s a touch odd to mention “blogger”, then “murder”, in that order. Shouldn’t it be “the news of a man who has been accused of the slow murder of his wife stirred some excitement in the blogger community in which the accused had been participating”? Admittedly, it’s long-winded, but it also doesn’t vaguely imply that blogging is linked to ugly betrayal.
November 9th, 2005 at 7:47 am
Jeff,
Blogging is a pastime of peace. Only a tiny minority of extremist bloggers actually kill their wives. Just because Keown killed his wife doesn’t show that all bloggers are wife killers any more than Timothy McVeigh shows that all blonde-haired, blue-eyed whiteys are terrorists.
Instead of stereo-typing bloggers, we should be looking for root causes for why Keown killed his wife. The anti-bloggerism of the dominant media has clearly driven bloggers to desperation. Instead of cracking down on bloggers and inflaming them to more extreme blogging, we should give them job training and affirmative action programs to so that they won’t be attracted to anti-social blogging and instead help them become productive members of society.
Mr. Keown is the real victim here of the dominant media power structure in 21st Century Amerikka.
November 9th, 2005 at 8:55 am
I’m sorry, HA…I take offense at the racial slur, “whitey”. My heritage is one of pride and accomplishments. Did you know white people invented toilet paper? Look it up if you don’t believe me. When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon it was white people who put the Tang in the little plastic bags.
Stop with your hate and use the proper term Caucasoid-American-Of-Vaguely-European-Ancestory.
Don’t make me tap my foot and glare at you.
November 9th, 2005 at 9:24 am
Headline: Blogger Blogs about Blogger Arrested for Murder
November 9th, 2005 at 9:52 am
Subhead: And Bloggers Comment.
November 9th, 2005 at 10:05 am
Mr. Keown had not been blogging long but he seemed to have a knack for it. It would seem he is facing a long ordeal and the blogger in me can’t help but wondering what it would be like to blog my way through a first degree murder trail. Has there ever been such a blog? Perhaps blogging would be the last thing on my mind but I could imagine slipping notes to my lawyer and asking her to post them. Probably not a good legal strategy but one could imagine interesting Google ads.
November 9th, 2005 at 10:54 am
“Subhead: And Bloggers Comment.”
LOL.
November 9th, 2005 at 11:16 am
Uh, Steve…. Don’t get any ideas, you hear?
November 9th, 2005 at 7:08 pm
Stop with your generalizations, my website is not a blog and I’m proud of my heritage as an itinerant commenter. There have not been any documented murders by blog commenters and enduring a murder trial as a commenter would be very tedious so I shall remain a non-murderer and non-blogger by choice.
November 9th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
that second link no longer works, Jeff. Was the second the one about the woman killing her mother?
November 11th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
It’s a touch odd to mention “blogger”, then “murder”, in that order. Shouldn’t it be “the news of a man who has been accused of the slow murder of his wife stirred some excitement in the blogger community in which the accused had been participating”? Admittedly, it’s long-winded, but it also doesn’t vaguely imply that blogging is linked to ugly betrayal.
Precision in language is a desirable goal.