New Weblog Showcase

Many years ago, in the US Navy less than a year, I was on a destroyer, in port at San Juan, Puerto Rico, and my Chief told me, "Strip down to your skivvies. This is gonna get dirty." He then gave me a bucket and a trowel. "There's the access hole," he pointed. "Crawl in there and clean it out." 'In there' was a diesel storage tank, about two feet high.

I crawled into an 18-inch opening, over four weir walls, to the back of the tank. With the trowel, I commenced scooping diesel oil sludge into the bucket. When full, I took it to the access hole and got another bucket and went and filled it. This went on for about 30 minutes, then the Chief told me to get out and he sent someone else in. "You're filthy," he said. "Go get cleaned up."

From the top of my head to the bottom of my feet, I was covered with diesel oil sludge. I had never been so completely engulfed in oily, grimy, foul-smelling filth before. And I prayed it would never happen again.

Unfortunately, my prayer was not answered. Mucking through this week's New Weblog Showcase, I got the same feeling of being covered in foul-smelling filth. The first four I read were an insult to the eyes and mind. A seethingly, evangelical Bush-hater was followed by an insidiously stealthy Greenie cloaked in conservatism. These were followed by a pornography apologist/normalizer and then another Greenie, this one a fixated cultist drippingly close to being a flat-earther. I should have printed them out. Then I could sit in the smallest room in my house, reading the blogs in front of me and disposing of them behind me.

Fortunately, the other blogs were not of the wacko variety and I was able to select one. My only choice this week is:

The Fiduciary Duty of Good Faith which appears in Venturpreneur.

Of note is that I really didn't see anything positive in the first four I read. Also, extreme leftism is as obscene as the foulest of pornography.

Of course, there's no accounting for personal tastes and preferences.