From time to time I switch off the CD player while riding in the car in the pursuit of hearing live people talking.  For some reason, constantly listening to CD's or 'canned' music makes me feel canned.  I guess that live radio would more on the community end of the spectrum than a detached and nearly limitless (which seems to cheapen it) source of music.  And since there is not really any good talk radio that I would tend to agree with (there is NPR, but that would definitely put me at risk of falling asleep at the wheel, and CCM Christian radio station DJ's seem plastic and boring as well - although WAY FM has a great evening DJ) I tend to turn to Knoxville's own 100.3  

While I may not agree with everything proposed by the personalities of this station, it can often times be humorous.  The other day Neil Bortz (sp?) was saying that we should arrange the voting system so that the more money you make the more votes you should get.  This would presumably limit those 'lazy poor folk' from influencing the political machine.  HA!  What bologna!  We know those lazy poor folk don't vote anyways (spoken sarcastically).  

Anyways, the point of this blog is to compare talk radio with blogging.  I have often thought it would be fun to have my own talk radio show.  However, to have to spend an hour or two every day talking about something new is very risky.  The more I talk, especially spontaneously, the more chance I have of letting utter nonsense roll off my lips.  That is why I think blogging is a much better tool for reasonable dialog.  Most conservative talk radio show personalities I have listened to have a tendency to be absolutely right about everything.  Absolutely.  Any callers that dare disagree with the man on the throne are usually battered into silence or concession by horrendous logic.  Although, Shawn Hannity and O'Reilly are usually logical and I believe i have heard O'Reilly apologize.  

Thus, blogging would seem to rise above talk radio as a better medium for dialog because thought can be put into propositions and responses and the blogger or commenter can be quoted exactly.     

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