That is one way to describe it. There is a hollowness in the endeavour. It is not just a hobby or an interesting way to waste away a few hours in your day. A daily commentary develops a life of its own. It is not like a Facebook page that you tend like a garden (and use lots of manure). Nor is it as simple as a daily ego trip down Memory Lane. And it is hardly a “Look at me. Ain’t I erudite and bright just like the twits on Twitter?”
A blog is more like a daily massage. You pay for it to make you feel good about yourself. If you had a point to make it soon becomes lost in the challenge of creating pithy daily commentary on the rest of the world.
While we originally intended to be more wide ranging in our comments, the readership seemed to grow more rapidly with political matters. We have readers from sea to sea and also around the world of the web. There is no problem with coming up with opinions on politics.
But before we forget the objective today, the intent was to apologize to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The freedom of a blog does not excuse rudeness. And being angry at our Prime Minister is no excuse. He is not a boy and this commentator crossed a line in insulting him. Many of us lost respect for the office during Mr. Harper’s term but Mr. Trudeau has done nothing in that office to earn the scorn we had for Harper.
As a long-term liberal and Liberal Party Member, it is obvious to our regular readers that we do not agree all the time with our Liberal Prime Minister. That is our right. Obviously frustration is no excuse. We should always try to keep the commentary civil. And that is the apology about what we called him in the recent commentary on his problems with the Senate of Canada.
We are coming into what the media refer to as the summer hiatus. There is no concern for topics to discuss here. With the Three Amigo Summit coming up in Ottawa, the Brexit vote in Great Britain and the upcoming political conventions in the United States this summer, there will be much to fuel our commentaries.
But, please, can we make an exception for that despicable Donald Trump? He is obviously no politician. Be sure to drop by occasionally.
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