QuiltLady

I've been thinking a lot about the value of the blogs. The importance of bringing together a far-flung community of many different people who have one main thing in common. But really, the blogs are much more than that. At dinner last night when, calmly for once, discussing the total uselessness of our current war and the nightmare to come if we go into Iran, I noticed something. The gentleman I was talking with had been in the military for 27 years. Something to do with aiming missiles. You know what, I was at least as well informed as he on most topics, and on some, I actually knew more. And this from someone who never had the slightest interest in military strategy. In fact, last night when we started discussing strategy, this gentleman started addressing his comments to my husband, cause ya know, the little woman wouldn't know any of that shit. Yet I was able to intelligently and correctly discuss strategy as if I was an old hand at it. Reading Gilliard's blog all those years wasn't wasted. Nor has been hanging out at Eschaton waaaaaaaay too much. Today at the vigi,l when some young man in an s.u.v. asked if I had forgotten 9/11 I was able to, once again calmly, remind him that the planes were manned by Saudis and gee, where is Osama anyway? Maybe hiding in Pakistan, our ally. He then called me a liberal asshole and sped away before I could inquire, um, if you believe so strongly in this war, why aren't you in uniform? Without all the hours of discussion and knowledge acquired therefrom, I would not have been able hold my own as well during such confrontations. So if you need a rationalization for blogging, there ya go.