I'm not entirely sure why these blogs exist. I guess it let's people expose their political beliefs on the internet, but I don't think that's necessarily a positive thing. I generally don't have an opinion on politics, I don't watch sports and I'm pretty sure pop-culture went down the drain decades ago, so dicussing those topics seems moot at best. My opinions are already set.

I have an opinon on pretty much one thing right now: books. People don't seem to read; I don't even mean literature, I'm talking about anything (Besides US Weekly and Seventeen). If anyone reads this, you probably aren't a part of this demographic, but still. It's kind of scary. A while back I had an article that had the Writer's Stike in the title, but really didn't have anything to do with it in reality. I mostly talked about a statistic I found that only 50% of Americans read a book in the year or picked up a magazine regularly. They didn't even read Cosmo or Dan Brown, as if that took effort. I'd understand it if they spent most of their time face-down, unconcious in a bucket of cocaine, but let's face it, not many of us have that kind of money. A shame admittedly, but it's true. So what in hell are they doing? It's hard to imagine anyone is that busy that they can't pick up a book. Even before viagra, the average man still didn't spend that much time trying to get laid. And without drugs and sex, I'm not sure what could be so enthralling that half of America has become accidentally illiterate.

Sex aside, what about Harry Potter? I got the pleasure of spending months watching oblivious news anchors telling me how Harry Potter got children to read again. They all seemed to overlook the catch: Harry Potter got kids to read Harry Potter and that's about it. And it's not just kids, there are twenty-somethings that have a deep connection to an angsty, fictional wizard and somehow forgot that there's a world outside of it. Harry Potter didn't help anyone but dear old J.K. If I have sit around anymore people telling me about the literary qualities of Harry's adventure (which there are none, I've read the books enough time to say there is almost no quality involved), I might just jam forks in my eyes.

So, seriously get off your ass, turn off the TV, wipe the coke off your nose and read something. It's starting to get pathetic.