why we blog

I always thought blogging was about telling the world how cool you are and how witty your writing is. But apparently, people blog for all kinds of crazy reasons.

People like to sell stuff like viagra and weight loss 'solutions'. There seems to be a whole genre of break-up blogs, where people tell the internet community how they are SO over someone they have to write a blog about it. There are whacko religious blogs.

But what freaks me out even more are medical blogs. There is a whole blog about skin diseases. I'm sure somewhere there's a blog about the health benefits of drinking urine.

So, what happens is that I have finished my marxist polemic of the day, and think 'I'll go look at a random blog today". And before I know it, I am staring at psoriasis. Yuk... If I wanted to look at psoriasis I would go read a med journal.