I am just curious as to what I am just curious as to what people’s main reason for blogging is? It always strikes me that it’s not so much the views, but the way they are expressed, which is often not representative of the broad cross section of society in non-virtual (dare I say it) social behavior. This is nothing unique to this blog, but I thought it might be interesting to test this theory with a quick poll.
UCGal
March 3, 2009 @
10:02 AM
I participate in message I participate in message boards and online communities for information and also to read views counter to my own. It’s always good to have exposure to alternate view points.
I don’t “blog” per-se… I don’t have a blog where I post my writings for others to read. I’ll leave that for people with more to say than me. But I do read a variety of blogs on both sides of the political spectrum.
urbanrealtor
March 3, 2009 @
10:06 AM
Lack of social skills. Lack of social skills.
NotCranky
March 3, 2009 @
10:07 AM
All of the above and All of the above and spirtitual growth too.
afx114
March 3, 2009 @
10:48 AM
I have a simple answer: I have a simple answer: NUMBER FIVE, NEED INPUT!
Enorah
March 3, 2009 @
10:58 AM
combination of urbanrealtor’s combination of urbanrealtor’s response and Russel’s response
and for connection
*heart*
urbanrealtor
March 3, 2009 @
11:37 PM
Enorah wrote:combination of [quote=Enorah]combination of urbanrealtor’s response and Russel’s response
and for connection
*heart*[/quote]
barf
Enorah
March 4, 2009 @
12:43 AM
lack of social skills
no lack of social skills
no s***
lol
nostradamus
March 4, 2009 @
9:01 AM
Enorah wrote:lack of social [quote=Enorah]lack of social skills
no s***
lol[/quote]
LOL I’m here to see posts like this! Good laughs in the morning.
NotCranky
March 4, 2009 @
7:19 AM
urbanrealtor wrote:Enorah [quote=urbanrealtor][quote=Enorah]combination of urbanrealtor’s response and Russel’s response
and for connection
*heart*[/quote]
barf
[/quote]
Even wiithout knowing completely what the “barf” response is to, one must agree it is a perfectly good one. However, for the record, and in case the spritual growth had anything to do with the upchucking…I wasn’t refering to MY spiritual growth!You guys are coming along little by little.
Enorah
March 4, 2009 @
9:52 AM
Russell wrote:urbanrealtor [quote=Russell][quote=urbanrealtor][quote=Enorah]combination of urbanrealtor’s response and Russel’s response
and for connection
*heart*[/quote]
barf
[/quote]
Even wiithout knowing completely what the “barf” response is to, one must agree it is a perfectly good one. However, for the record, and in case the spritual growth had anything to do with the upchucking…I wasn’t refering to MY spiritual growth!You guys are coming along little by little.
[/quote]
LOL
Ouch my sides hurt
LOL
urbanrealtor
March 4, 2009 @
1:08 PM
Stop Russell.
I am trying Stop Russell.
I am trying desperately to arrest my social and spiritual growth.
So far I am only retarding it.
(Insert “retarding” joke here)
Enorah
March 4, 2009 @
1:38 PM
Russell wrote:urbanrealtor [quote=Russell][quote=urbanrealtor][quote=Enorah]combination of urbanrealtor’s response and Russel’s response
and for connection
*heart*[/quote]
barf
[/quote]
Even wiithout knowing completely what the “barf” response is to, one must agree it is a perfectly good one. However, for the record, and in case the spritual growth had anything to do with the upchucking…I wasn’t refering to MY spiritual growth!You guys are coming along little by little.
[/quote]
I am curious if that “ii” is some super secret spiritual awakening device masters like you are taught, russ?
Or maybe you just incarnated with the super secret ii information already intact?
And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.” And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely.
“Everything must have a purpose?” asked God.
“Certainly,” said man.
“Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God.
And He went away. [ 118 ]
Although I could not find a “retarding” joke for Dan, there is something in it for him too:
“Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.”
And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.” And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely.
“Everything must have a purpose?” asked God.
“Certainly,” said man.
“Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God.
And He went away. [ 118 ]
Although I could not find a “retarding” joke for Dan, there is something in it for him too:
“Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.”
[/quote]
Ow.
Russ, you hurt my thalamus.
Enorah
March 4, 2009 @
7:00 PM
wow a fake Vonnegut wow a fake Vonnegut religion
deep, man
Actually, Russ, you have no idea how much you just hit on the head and helped to confirm with this synchronistic post something we (my partner and I) have been talking about ALL DAY LONG.
Holy carp.
I have to leave it at that, but you, oh wise one of the I I Am can extrapolate.
Urbanrealotor, please do not even try, as I do not wish to be picking pieces of your consciousness out of the astral plane.
*kiss*
temeculaguy
March 4, 2009 @
11:30 PM
All of the above, but at All of the above, but at different times. What started out as a quest for knowledge, turned into much more. During the journey I realized that there were people who walked in different circles, had different views but the amazing thing was, we were similar. Almost every pigg is the smartest person in the room in the real world. Unfortunately that can still create lonliness. Education aside, pigg regulars are a very wise group. It’s fun to find others that think, maybe not the same thoughts, we argue like siblings at times, but almost everyone brings something to the table.
I imagine that folks like us would have gone insane 50 years ago, with no way to connect to another 50 or 100 minds that can actually teach you things while making you feel normal. I don’t kid myself anymore, I am fully aware of my irregularities, luckily they are embraced here.
So I got what I thought I came for, I learned about charts, graphs and cycles that I didn’t know about before. I accomplished my goal of buying a house for a historicaly fair price and I ask myself “why I am still here” all the time, yet i still read and still write, even without having a horse in this race. I look forward to certain poster’s writings. I’ve had self doubt, wondering if my constant presence of this blog is a barometer of how insignificant my life is, but I always revert to my arrogance and tell myslef, this is where the cool kids hang, fellow smarties are just more fun. I’ve drank with many of them, have plans to break bread with a few of them in the coming weeks and hopefully will forge some longlasting friendships well beyond the existence of this site, for no other reason than to connect to other quirkly, unusually intelligent thinkers that I enjoy pretending to be one of. All I can say is, “All of the Above.”
CardiffBaseball
March 5, 2009 @
9:13 AM
I don’t consider myself a I don’t consider myself a blogger, but a message board junkie. Does being here and offering forth my opinion make me a blogger? I would think having a site on blogger or wordpress would allow me to say I blog, but to each his own.
I come here for the intense biblical study and discussion of grace and the relevance of christ’s love… uhh welll… No I can’t seem to get away. There are times when I’d like to throw all my sites away and just give it up but I can’t. I have an addiction. Piggington, Cleveland/Ohio State sports, and baseball hitting sites. I also read Bubbleinfo daily, and try to remember to check calculatedrisk, but lately I’m too busy and have to stop somewhere. I check Drudge a few times a day, for basic headlines.
I think TG hit the nail on the head coming here for diversity of opinion. I am almost embarrassed sometimes in a social setting that I know as much as I do about what’s going on and often ramp it down during discussions. It’s like when I was a constantly flirting (successfully) jock in high school but also on the honor roll, I never wanted anyone to know I was smart for some reason and it sticks with me now. I’d get the invariable question back then, “Cardiff you are smart, I didn’t know that????”. I have that same thing going now where I start to go off on a subject that I’ve read a great deal on here… Meaning in some social setting if I get started I’ll often put the brakes on. I’ll either see glazed over eyes, or jealousy from people in that industry who clearly don’t follow what’s going on out there so I just let it go. Nobody likes know-it-all guy anyway, so I often pretend folks are enlightening me as I am listening to the same ‘ole stuff. I don’t make enemies that way, and it usually leads to more free beer down the road…
A good reason for coming here is that I feel like I get smarter with every good discussion, even regarding something like wine which I’d never learned anything about previously.
Now the reason I use the blogger sites so much is that traditional news is tiresome and repetitive but that doesn’t mean I don’t watch it. Today as we speak I am formulating my strategy for how I can convince Kathleen Bade that her husband is no good for her. Of course she’d have to understand that I have a situation to back out of as well but for Kathleen my wife would be cool and totally understand ;). Realistically Kate is out of my league, I am probably more suited to Renee Kohn. She doesn’t have the perfect little SoCal Size 1 figure now that I am 40 it’s fine. Additionally what is up with KUSI. I just know that the new lady who “reads the news”, Heather Moore, is probably stunning but the lighting there is horrible. Finally I just know for a fact that this Brooke Landau is way out of my league, and that’s too bad, she’s missing out on a good man…
temeculaguy
March 5, 2009 @
7:42 PM
Cardiff, Dude, sweet analysis Cardiff, Dude, sweet analysis of the local news chicks. I don’t watch much of the S.D. news since we are in the L.A. t.v. area up here but your narrative was just the kind of tangent I enjoy. Bravo! Up here KCAL carries the laker games and Jackie Johnson is the weather girl for that station, they always run a commercial with her for the news near the end of the game and nine times out of ten, I end up watching because of her (playboy readers voted her the hottest meteoroligist a few years back if that’s any indication of her plastic surgeon’s talent, those things are worth every penny). I can understand your weakness, we boys are so simple it is amazing we can find the door to get out of the house in the morning.
PCinSD
March 5, 2009 @
7:52 PM
I miss seeing Misha DiBono on I miss seeing Misha DiBono on KUSI. She might beat out Kathleen Bade.
CardiffBaseball
March 5, 2009 @
9:44 PM
pabloesqobar wrote:I miss [quote=pabloesqobar]I miss seeing Misha DiBono on KUSI. She might beat out Kathleen Bade.[/quote]
That might have been before my time. Unless I just wasn’t paying attention. (been here since Aug. 2005)
Aecetia
March 5, 2009 @
10:45 PM
TG:
It is not about TG:
It is not about insignificance. This is your diary and we look forward to your entries. Maybe it is just cybervouyerism.
urbanrealtor
March 5, 2009 @
10:57 AM
Enorah wrote:wow a fake [quote=Enorah]wow a fake Vonnegut religion
deep, man
Actually, Russ, you have no idea how much you just hit on the head and helped to confirm with this synchronistic post something we (my partner and I) have been talking about ALL DAY LONG.
Holy carp.
I have to leave it at that, but you, oh wise one of the I I Am can extrapolate.
Urbanrealotor, please do not even try, as I do not wish to be picking pieces of your consciousness out of the astral plane.
*kiss*[/quote]
Back at ya.
Enorah
March 5, 2009 @
11:42 AM
🙂
🙂
Coronita
March 3, 2009 @
11:31 AM
Being a nasty SOB when my Being a nasty SOB when my usual daily interactions don’t allow me to be.
Username
March 3, 2009 @
11:45 AM
I think “Information” and I think “Information” and “Intellectual pursuit” are very closely related and even “Boredom” could be thrown in the same mix. Personally I started reading blogs because I found people on here who aren’t trying to sell me something like the MSM. Now I do it because I get frustrated with the morons I work with and need an escape. Also the IT guy hasn’t figured out about this site and blocked my access to it.
svelte
March 3, 2009 @
1:50 PM
This board has saved me This board has saved me thousands of dollars, as it is here that i discovered mortgage rates had dropped over 1.5 percent below my current mortgage.
Information is the main reason I’m here.
Being able to toss in the occasional snide/funny/helpful comment is pure gravy. If I didn’t learn something on a regular basis here, I would be gone in a heartbeat.
underdose
March 3, 2009 @
2:27 PM
I turn to blogs and satirical I turn to blogs and satirical news programs because the traditional news media has lost its way. I read what Rich and Peter Schiff have to say because they engage in deeper investigative reporting and provide more insightful and accurate analysis of the economy than anyone at CNBC or WSJ. I watch Jon Stewart and Bill Maher because they are similarly more on top of the political news than CNN. Sadly, the traditional media is largely full of cheerleaders, ignorant blow hards and moronic sheep. I knew that housing was a bubble, and I found the mainstream news useless in its analysis that rising home prices were a good thing and sustainable long term. It was extremely refreshing to find piggington and see Rich confirming my beliefs with data that I had neither the patience or resources to find myself, and would never have gotten from the paper. And I get to add my 2 cents to the discussion. If I can help enlighten anyone, contribute to a more informed and savvy society, perhaps we can right the boat at some point.
As an added bonus, these blogs and the Daily Show make me laugh. If I don’t laugh at all this mess, I will be crushed by depression…
Zeitgeist
March 3, 2009 @
2:46 PM
Mental stimulation and mental Mental stimulation and mental health.
sdduuuude
March 4, 2009 @
10:32 AM
I think “to teach others” I think “to teach others” should be on the list.
While some just like to pontificate and call it teaching, many of the Piggs are great teachers and likely find satisfaction in that, perhpas without even realizing it.
March 3, 2009 @ 9:33 AM
I am just curious as to what
I am just curious as to what people’s main reason for blogging is? It always strikes me that it’s not so much the views, but the way they are expressed, which is often not representative of the broad cross section of society in non-virtual (dare I say it) social behavior. This is nothing unique to this blog, but I thought it might be interesting to test this theory with a quick poll.
March 3, 2009 @ 10:02 AM
I participate in message
I participate in message boards and online communities for information and also to read views counter to my own. It’s always good to have exposure to alternate view points.
I don’t “blog” per-se… I don’t have a blog where I post my writings for others to read. I’ll leave that for people with more to say than me. But I do read a variety of blogs on both sides of the political spectrum.
March 3, 2009 @ 10:06 AM
Lack of social skills.
Lack of social skills.
March 3, 2009 @ 10:07 AM
All of the above and
All of the above and spirtitual growth too.
March 3, 2009 @ 10:48 AM
I have a simple answer:
I have a simple answer: NUMBER FIVE, NEED INPUT!
March 3, 2009 @ 10:58 AM
combination of urbanrealtor’s
combination of urbanrealtor’s response and Russel’s response
and for connection
*heart*
March 3, 2009 @ 11:37 PM
Enorah wrote:combination of
[quote=Enorah]combination of urbanrealtor’s response and Russel’s response
and for connection
*heart*[/quote]
barf
March 4, 2009 @ 12:43 AM
lack of social skills
no
lack of social skills
no s***
lol
March 4, 2009 @ 9:01 AM
Enorah wrote:lack of social
[quote=Enorah]lack of social skills
no s***
lol[/quote]
LOL I’m here to see posts like this! Good laughs in the morning.
March 4, 2009 @ 7:19 AM
urbanrealtor wrote:Enorah
[quote=urbanrealtor][quote=Enorah]combination of urbanrealtor’s response and Russel’s response
and for connection
*heart*[/quote]
barf
[/quote]
Even wiithout knowing completely what the “barf” response is to, one must agree it is a perfectly good one. However, for the record, and in case the spritual growth had anything to do with the upchucking…I wasn’t refering to MY spiritual growth!You guys are coming along little by little.
March 4, 2009 @ 9:52 AM
Russell wrote:urbanrealtor
[quote=Russell][quote=urbanrealtor][quote=Enorah]combination of urbanrealtor’s response and Russel’s response
and for connection
*heart*[/quote]
barf
[/quote]
Even wiithout knowing completely what the “barf” response is to, one must agree it is a perfectly good one. However, for the record, and in case the spritual growth had anything to do with the upchucking…I wasn’t refering to MY spiritual growth!You guys are coming along little by little.
[/quote]
LOL
Ouch my sides hurt
LOL
March 4, 2009 @ 1:08 PM
Stop Russell.
I am trying
Stop Russell.
I am trying desperately to arrest my social and spiritual growth.
So far I am only retarding it.
(Insert “retarding” joke here)
March 4, 2009 @ 1:38 PM
Russell wrote:urbanrealtor
[quote=Russell][quote=urbanrealtor][quote=Enorah]combination of urbanrealtor’s response and Russel’s response
and for connection
*heart*[/quote]
barf
[/quote]
Even wiithout knowing completely what the “barf” response is to, one must agree it is a perfectly good one. However, for the record, and in case the spritual growth had anything to do with the upchucking…I wasn’t refering to MY spiritual growth!You guys are coming along little by little.
[/quote]
I am curious if that “ii” is some super secret spiritual awakening device masters like you are taught, russ?
Or maybe you just incarnated with the super secret ii information already intact?
It is the ii
that is the secret!
It is no longer the I am
It is now the I I am
rofl
March 4, 2009 @ 2:37 PM
Enorah it’s all in
Enorah it’s all in here:http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/personal/bokonon.html
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.
And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.” And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely.
“Everything must have a purpose?” asked God.
“Certainly,” said man.
“Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God.
And He went away. [ 118 ]
Although I could not find a “retarding” joke for Dan, there is something in it for him too:
“Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.”
March 4, 2009 @ 4:00 PM
Russell wrote:Enorah it’s all
[quote=Russell]Enorah it’s all in here:http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/personal/bokonon.html
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.
And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.” And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely.
“Everything must have a purpose?” asked God.
“Certainly,” said man.
“Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God.
And He went away. [ 118 ]
Although I could not find a “retarding” joke for Dan, there is something in it for him too:
“Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.”
[/quote]
Ow.
Russ, you hurt my thalamus.
March 4, 2009 @ 7:00 PM
wow a fake Vonnegut
wow a fake Vonnegut religion
deep, man
Actually, Russ, you have no idea how much you just hit on the head and helped to confirm with this synchronistic post something we (my partner and I) have been talking about ALL DAY LONG.
Holy carp.
I have to leave it at that, but you, oh wise one of the I I Am can extrapolate.
Urbanrealotor, please do not even try, as I do not wish to be picking pieces of your consciousness out of the astral plane.
*kiss*
March 4, 2009 @ 11:30 PM
All of the above, but at
All of the above, but at different times. What started out as a quest for knowledge, turned into much more. During the journey I realized that there were people who walked in different circles, had different views but the amazing thing was, we were similar. Almost every pigg is the smartest person in the room in the real world. Unfortunately that can still create lonliness. Education aside, pigg regulars are a very wise group. It’s fun to find others that think, maybe not the same thoughts, we argue like siblings at times, but almost everyone brings something to the table.
I imagine that folks like us would have gone insane 50 years ago, with no way to connect to another 50 or 100 minds that can actually teach you things while making you feel normal. I don’t kid myself anymore, I am fully aware of my irregularities, luckily they are embraced here.
So I got what I thought I came for, I learned about charts, graphs and cycles that I didn’t know about before. I accomplished my goal of buying a house for a historicaly fair price and I ask myself “why I am still here” all the time, yet i still read and still write, even without having a horse in this race. I look forward to certain poster’s writings. I’ve had self doubt, wondering if my constant presence of this blog is a barometer of how insignificant my life is, but I always revert to my arrogance and tell myslef, this is where the cool kids hang, fellow smarties are just more fun. I’ve drank with many of them, have plans to break bread with a few of them in the coming weeks and hopefully will forge some longlasting friendships well beyond the existence of this site, for no other reason than to connect to other quirkly, unusually intelligent thinkers that I enjoy pretending to be one of. All I can say is, “All of the Above.”
March 5, 2009 @ 9:13 AM
I don’t consider myself a
I don’t consider myself a blogger, but a message board junkie. Does being here and offering forth my opinion make me a blogger? I would think having a site on blogger or wordpress would allow me to say I blog, but to each his own.
I come here for the intense biblical study and discussion of grace and the relevance of christ’s love… uhh welll… No I can’t seem to get away. There are times when I’d like to throw all my sites away and just give it up but I can’t. I have an addiction. Piggington, Cleveland/Ohio State sports, and baseball hitting sites. I also read Bubbleinfo daily, and try to remember to check calculatedrisk, but lately I’m too busy and have to stop somewhere. I check Drudge a few times a day, for basic headlines.
I think TG hit the nail on the head coming here for diversity of opinion. I am almost embarrassed sometimes in a social setting that I know as much as I do about what’s going on and often ramp it down during discussions. It’s like when I was a constantly flirting (successfully) jock in high school but also on the honor roll, I never wanted anyone to know I was smart for some reason and it sticks with me now. I’d get the invariable question back then, “Cardiff you are smart, I didn’t know that????”. I have that same thing going now where I start to go off on a subject that I’ve read a great deal on here… Meaning in some social setting if I get started I’ll often put the brakes on. I’ll either see glazed over eyes, or jealousy from people in that industry who clearly don’t follow what’s going on out there so I just let it go. Nobody likes know-it-all guy anyway, so I often pretend folks are enlightening me as I am listening to the same ‘ole stuff. I don’t make enemies that way, and it usually leads to more free beer down the road…
A good reason for coming here is that I feel like I get smarter with every good discussion, even regarding something like wine which I’d never learned anything about previously.
Now the reason I use the blogger sites so much is that traditional news is tiresome and repetitive but that doesn’t mean I don’t watch it. Today as we speak I am formulating my strategy for how I can convince Kathleen Bade that her husband is no good for her. Of course she’d have to understand that I have a situation to back out of as well but for Kathleen my wife would be cool and totally understand ;). Realistically Kate is out of my league, I am probably more suited to Renee Kohn. She doesn’t have the perfect little SoCal Size 1 figure now that I am 40 it’s fine. Additionally what is up with KUSI. I just know that the new lady who “reads the news”, Heather Moore, is probably stunning but the lighting there is horrible. Finally I just know for a fact that this Brooke Landau is way out of my league, and that’s too bad, she’s missing out on a good man…
March 5, 2009 @ 7:42 PM
Cardiff, Dude, sweet analysis
Cardiff, Dude, sweet analysis of the local news chicks. I don’t watch much of the S.D. news since we are in the L.A. t.v. area up here but your narrative was just the kind of tangent I enjoy. Bravo! Up here KCAL carries the laker games and Jackie Johnson is the weather girl for that station, they always run a commercial with her for the news near the end of the game and nine times out of ten, I end up watching because of her (playboy readers voted her the hottest meteoroligist a few years back if that’s any indication of her plastic surgeon’s talent, those things are worth every penny). I can understand your weakness, we boys are so simple it is amazing we can find the door to get out of the house in the morning.
March 5, 2009 @ 7:52 PM
I miss seeing Misha DiBono on
I miss seeing Misha DiBono on KUSI. She might beat out Kathleen Bade.
March 5, 2009 @ 9:44 PM
pabloesqobar wrote:I miss
[quote=pabloesqobar]I miss seeing Misha DiBono on KUSI. She might beat out Kathleen Bade.[/quote]
That might have been before my time. Unless I just wasn’t paying attention. (been here since Aug. 2005)
March 5, 2009 @ 10:45 PM
TG:
It is not about
TG:
It is not about insignificance. This is your diary and we look forward to your entries. Maybe it is just cybervouyerism.
March 5, 2009 @ 10:57 AM
Enorah wrote:wow a fake
[quote=Enorah]wow a fake Vonnegut religion
deep, man
Actually, Russ, you have no idea how much you just hit on the head and helped to confirm with this synchronistic post something we (my partner and I) have been talking about ALL DAY LONG.
Holy carp.
I have to leave it at that, but you, oh wise one of the I I Am can extrapolate.
Urbanrealotor, please do not even try, as I do not wish to be picking pieces of your consciousness out of the astral plane.
*kiss*[/quote]
Back at ya.
March 5, 2009 @ 11:42 AM
🙂
🙂
March 3, 2009 @ 11:31 AM
Being a nasty SOB when my
Being a nasty SOB when my usual daily interactions don’t allow me to be.
March 3, 2009 @ 11:45 AM
I think “Information” and
I think “Information” and “Intellectual pursuit” are very closely related and even “Boredom” could be thrown in the same mix. Personally I started reading blogs because I found people on here who aren’t trying to sell me something like the MSM. Now I do it because I get frustrated with the morons I work with and need an escape. Also the IT guy hasn’t figured out about this site and blocked my access to it.
March 3, 2009 @ 1:50 PM
This board has saved me
This board has saved me thousands of dollars, as it is here that i discovered mortgage rates had dropped over 1.5 percent below my current mortgage.
Information is the main reason I’m here.
Being able to toss in the occasional snide/funny/helpful comment is pure gravy. If I didn’t learn something on a regular basis here, I would be gone in a heartbeat.
March 3, 2009 @ 2:27 PM
I turn to blogs and satirical
I turn to blogs and satirical news programs because the traditional news media has lost its way. I read what Rich and Peter Schiff have to say because they engage in deeper investigative reporting and provide more insightful and accurate analysis of the economy than anyone at CNBC or WSJ. I watch Jon Stewart and Bill Maher because they are similarly more on top of the political news than CNN. Sadly, the traditional media is largely full of cheerleaders, ignorant blow hards and moronic sheep. I knew that housing was a bubble, and I found the mainstream news useless in its analysis that rising home prices were a good thing and sustainable long term. It was extremely refreshing to find piggington and see Rich confirming my beliefs with data that I had neither the patience or resources to find myself, and would never have gotten from the paper. And I get to add my 2 cents to the discussion. If I can help enlighten anyone, contribute to a more informed and savvy society, perhaps we can right the boat at some point.
As an added bonus, these blogs and the Daily Show make me laugh. If I don’t laugh at all this mess, I will be crushed by depression…
March 3, 2009 @ 2:46 PM
Mental stimulation and mental
Mental stimulation and mental health.
March 4, 2009 @ 10:32 AM
I think “to teach others”
I think “to teach others” should be on the list.
While some just like to pontificate and call it teaching, many of the Piggs are great teachers and likely find satisfaction in that, perhpas without even realizing it.