Blogs Are The Worst

This spring has already brought about two weird, out of touch anti-blog columns from old guys. 

First there was this Patrick Reusse piece, beautifully torn apart at Fire Joe Morgan.  Reusse accentuates how easy it is to start a blog by concocting a hilarious scenario where a homeless man blogs the Twins.

Then today Steve Kelley really took bloggers to task.  This column strikes me as especially strange because the most popular Mariners blogs – U.S.S. Mariner and Lookout Landing – operate on a higher plane than any newspaper.  Kelley envisions his bloggers (or is it a chat room?) as "passionate, well-intentioned, if not quite well-informed." 

What blogs are these guys reading?  When I want the news, I pick up the newspaper.  Well, yesterday’s news at least.  But when I want intelligent analysis, I check out blogs and some select online columnists.