Comments on: Why I blog https://thenewneo.com/2014/08/16/why-i-blog/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:33:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: babka https://thenewneo.com/2014/08/16/why-i-blog/#comment-864699 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:33:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24015#comment-864699 wow! it’s maybe not so altogether lonely at the top, dear Neo. what encouragements! well deserved.

]]> By: Vikram https://thenewneo.com/2014/08/16/why-i-blog/#comment-817854 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 02:09:08 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24015#comment-817854 Indeed I learned the real purpose of blogging after reading this. You writings takes me to a journey. To a different world. It sounds quite American, though I am able to interpret it. Not all the blogs have your kind of twist. A whole range of topics to read. I understand a blog is not necessarily for making money. Have been roaming around on your blog since an hour, it seems to be an adventure ride for me.

Thanks,
Keep Jawing

]]> By: zipper https://thenewneo.com/2014/08/16/why-i-blog/#comment-815415 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:45:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24015#comment-815415 Yes ma’am

Thank you

Keep on.

]]> By: Papa Dan https://thenewneo.com/2014/08/16/why-i-blog/#comment-815271 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:56:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24015#comment-815271 Between Ace and Neo I feel like I have as close a chance to experience what Ben Franklins “Junto” must have been like. http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_citizen_networker.html

]]> By: GA https://thenewneo.com/2014/08/16/why-i-blog/#comment-815265 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:23:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24015#comment-815265 Nothing wrong with small talk. And the garbage company’s change of pickup days is important for those who may not have heard of it. If you end up keeping that stuff for an extra week in the summer….
Practically everybody has some deep thoughts. May not be what you want to hear, and maybe they know that.
There’s a limit to the utility of discussing things. If I get into something contentious, it will be simply to alert my, say, green friends that certain things are happening–which they almost certainly know–to discredit AGW and that the rest of us know these things, too. No point in “discussing” them. Recent news, for example, that all of Michael Brown’s holes were in front doesn’t actually mean anything to the protesters in Ferguson or elsewhere, or the progressives elsewhere. Simply explain you know better and let them stew.
Richard Aubrey

]]> By: Ira https://thenewneo.com/2014/08/16/why-i-blog/#comment-815198 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 04:11:25 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24015#comment-815198 1. Neo-Neocon, if I haven’t thanked you for your blog before, I should have. Thank you!

2. Your Ma, Dad, and Gramma might not have shown interest in your reading from Forbidden Planet, yet I’m am sure they were super-interested in loads and loads of other things about you.

3. The majority of adult people, unfortunately, regardless of intellectual prowess, only care to put the effort into speaking about themselves.

]]> By: Mac https://thenewneo.com/2014/08/16/why-i-blog/#comment-815187 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 02:25:02 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24015#comment-815187 Add me to the list of kindred spirits. My blog serves exactly the same purpose for me, though the subjects of conversation are generally different. If I had no commenters I’d probably give it up.

I’m wretched at small talk. And unfortunately it often happens that if I do run across other people who are interested in talking about the big stuff, things tend to stall out on fundamental disagreements.

I must say that I’m interested, amused, and a little pleased to hear you big-city folks say the situation is no better there than it is in my provincial town. I’ve sometimes wondered if I should have moved to a big city, or maybe a big university campus, for that reason, but sounds like it’s just as well, since I don’t actually like big cities.

]]> By: Michael Adams https://thenewneo.com/2014/08/16/why-i-blog/#comment-815183 Mon, 18 Aug 2014 01:11:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24015#comment-815183 Yes! I can remember at a very early age saying something speculative, and having someone, usually my father, shoot me down. I got even, though. I married a good partner for conversation, and begat two more. You can’t shut any of us up, although my daughter in law does try, from time to time. Now, the grandkids are coming along quite nicely. Your wonderful blog fits seamlessly into our small society. And, yeah, the writing’s not half bad, either.

]]> By: Capn Rusty https://thenewneo.com/2014/08/16/why-i-blog/#comment-815173 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:42:11 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24015#comment-815173 I have long followed your blog, Neo. You are a great writer and a great thinker (even when I disagree with you). The icing on the cake is the quality of the commenters you attract. I learn much from them. The “Salon” analogy is spot on; you are a great hostess.

]]> By: Marcia https://thenewneo.com/2014/08/16/why-i-blog/#comment-815166 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 22:56:37 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24015#comment-815166 This post and subsequent responses have been like perfectly paired dark chocolate and cabernet.
So appreciated.

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