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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Pundit Stupidity Syndrome

Margaret Wente (I know, I know) had a column the other day about how the only blogs that exist are political blogs, and only men have blogs and men blog because they suffer from a gender wide syndrome known as male answer syndrome, concluding, "blogging? ... that's guy stuff. And they are welcome to it."

The article was far too inane to take offense but it seemed a worthy target of mockery, so in that spirit, I offer the following Wente-centric history of blogging:

1997: The word 'blog' is coined
1999: Blogger is launched
2005: Over 10,000,000 blogs in existence
2007: Over 100,000,000 blogs in existence
2010: Margaret Wente discovers that blogs exist
TBD: Margaret Wente discovers that not all blogs are about politics
TBD: Margaret Wente discovers that there are millions of female bloggers out there
TBD: Margaret Wente realizes that she has spent the last decade (or more) of her life as a paid female blogger who suffers from an acute case of male answer syndrome.

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posted by Declan at Thursday, March 25, 2010

3 Comments:

  • This made me laugh and laugh. You are so right.

    By Blogger Jae/Jennie, at 9:17 AM  

  • Ms. Wente gets paid?

    Who knew.

    .

    By Blogger RossK, at 1:26 AM  

  • Well, I assume she gets paid. From a commercial standpoint of generating interest, she is probably an effective columnist. They don't get paid for being right, you know.

    By Blogger Declan, at 9:00 PM  

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