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continuing the theme ...

I visit several gay-themed blogs and news sites, which purport to glean news from all available sources that would be of concern to the members of my Tribe. I get fed up with the lack of inclusion in the 'mainstream' media we experience, and the negative coverage if we are included. There are problems with the gay sites, too, and one of the most irritating is the lack of training most of the writers for these sites have in basic logical thinking and the use of English. This is taken from one of the talking heads on a site called 365gay.com:

By Emma Ruby-Sachs, Blogger, 365gay Agenda Blog 02.02.2009 1:32pm EST

For those who have had a chance to look through the list of new donors  to the Yes on 8 campaign on the California Secretary of State’’s website might happen across radio personality Gary Bryan from KRTH 101.1 FM. Other observations include a suprising number of teachers and administrators from colleges in the State. For those of you in California, I’d check and make sure your kids aren’t attended classes with one of these people. At least, knowing who they are could make the next parent-teacher meeting more interesting…

I don't' even know where to begin, there are so many things wrong with what she's written. I know what she was trying to say, but really, it takes some decoding to get there. This particular blogger has a habit of going off half-cocked, as it were, not bothering much with fact-checking or accuracy or any of those mundane tenets that apply to reporting news, or in opining thereon. The site allows readers to comment upon news stories, and the Tribe's comments range from so badly written as to make no sense to the well-thought-out but atrociously spelled missives of people who at least try, a little. Sandwiched In between are the idiot knee-jerk reactions consisting of cries for the blood of all straights and off-topic rants about whatever wrong has irritated the writer first that morning. Someone said "the public gets the kind of leaders they (sic) deserve", and I'm beginning to think whoever said it was right. Ungrammatical, but right.