Comment 50186

By bobinnes (registered) - website | Posted October 22, 2010 at 14:46:22

Well Turbo, the reason that i (and many) like blogs is that commenters quickly undo any bias that exists, which helps my overloaded brain cells, compared with having to extract the truth from the Spec. If i must, I do find it helps to restrict my reading of that or any rag to copies older than a year. Six months aging is not long enough. Business section excepted.

I reject your contention on the record issue. The only competency that might be important is herding cats! My yappy border collie comes to mind. From a mayor one wants direction, from councilors, one wants un-moneyed honesty above all (abolish contributions). Competency resides in the high priced bureaucracy, not politicians. Unfortunately for democracy, only crisis seems to be able to overcome petty bickering and skimming. For this reason I've become a proponent of Athenian Democracy, which rests on random selection, limited terms and direct voting.

You may be right about the familiarity angle, which is mere herdism but I keep hoping that the internet and blogosphere will permit folks to leap outside the narrow bounds of money politics that so restrains our adaptation to the future.

Cheers -- time to get back to the (Ward 4) campaign trail. Don't forget to scrutinize your trustee candidates -- they will be spending fully half your taxes but there is so little discussion!

Frogs, the pot is getting warm.

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