Welcome to the Blame Blog

Hello. You may know me from the Great Orange Satan blog known as Daily Kos, where I occasionally add my two cents. I decided to start my own blog to have a quieter space to express my thoughts not only on politics but other topics that interest me, such as culture, sex, music, kids, the environment and the internet.

The underlying theme of this blog is going to be personal accountability. In the real world, my job involves holding employees of a huge corporation accountable for their decisions. Basically, I go through reams of information, looking for anomalies. A typical discussion with a co-worker would sound something like this: ME: "OK, so can you explain to me why you made this particular decision to do something that not only violates company policy but screws over our customers and likely opens the company up to a lawsuit?" CO-WORKER: "It's not my fault the policy is stupid and another department gave me bad data!" ME: "What have you done to address what you feel is a stupid policy?" CO-WORKER: "Huh?" ME: "What are you doing with the other department to fix the bad data and make sure it doesn't happen again?" CO-WORKER: "Dude. That's too much work". This is a particularly fun conversation when it's with somebody a few steps higher on the corporate ladder. Although to be fair, executives don't usually call me "Dude".

It's kind of like that on the internet. It's much easier to snark about somebody else than to offer a solution that is actually within your control. If you're going to blame somebody else for all of the ills of the world, you need to offer a solution. It's kind of like that in politics too. Look at everything Bush fucked up. Now look at all the times he actually took responsibility. Um, yeah. I can't think of a single instance either. But what did you do to offer a solution? Politics is personal. These clowns are supposed to represent us. Voting every two or four years is not enough. So go ahead and cast as much blame wherever you want. All I ask is that you do something positive to fix the problem.