I went to see Amy Goodman speak tonight at the Tampa Theatre (in Tampa). I have to say that if there was ever a Nobel Prize for journalistic integrity, Amy should have it. After listening to her show, as often as possible, it's hard to watch something like CNN and give it even a shred of credibility. For example, the other night, Paula Zahn was doing one of those little 10 second promos for her show, you know, where she teases you with the big question of the day in hopes that you'll tune in to hear her in-depth and thought provoking analysis. Anyway, she was talking about Iranian president Ahmadinejad, how he's Bush's nemesis and all, then the big question: so, what's he doing on American soil? Well, Paula, he's at the freakin' U.N. General Assembly. That's what he's doing here. What a dumb question! Gee, I better tune in to the Paula Zahn show because I think she spotted this guy in the village and he might be up to something. He is, after all, Iranian and he might have one of those [nucular] weapons we keep hearing about with him and she's gonna get to the bottom of it. And aren't the Iranians supposed to be our new arch enemies? I don't know. Eurasia, Eastasia, what about the Malabar front? I can't keep it straight. I suppose I shouldn't be so hard on Paula though. She's just reading the cue cards. You know, the ones that come in the special envelopes.

This is post number one here at Marginal Thought. Why did I call this blog Marginal Thought? Well, all the other things I wanted to call it were already thought of by people who've thought about blogging longer than the 5 minutes I've been considering it. Actually, I read a lot of blogs, my favorite being David Corn's daily dose of Washington insider musings, so I think about blogs, albeit, unconsciously, but now I've joined the ranks of the hordes spewing assiduous drivel for the greater benefit of humankind. Back to the original question (why the name). Well, so much of what is considered "main stream thinking" is so absolutley inane and retarded, that rational thinking has been marginalized, and the conclusions one could draw from it are rarely converted to advice-put-to-use. So here we are, those of us who tend to think about things, on the fringes of society and the margins of life.

So what "drivel" can you expect from me? Well, if you think Bush is an idiot, war is pointless, Zappa is the best, that sort of thing, you might check back from time to time. I promise to try and be somewhat interesting and not too condescending toward those content to follow the lemmings over the cliff, although don't count on it.