In Defense of the Passionate Argument

Thank you, Liz, for posting.  It is your comments that inspired this post.  I hope that I won't offend you with my further comments.  This is the closest I've ever gotten to a real discussion of these issues.

Liz is a blogger.  (She writes about farm life, but she is a politically-energized mom as well as a farmer.  You'll find her blog, if you're interested, at http://iafarmwife.com/.)   In researching an earlier post I ran across her blog and became one of her "followers."  In some ways, her writing is a balm to my occasional bouts of homesickness, when I'm mired in the political drama that envelopes me here in Michigan.  When I read about pickling a cow tongue, I feel a little closer to home.  I come from the folk that pickled everything, you know.  Even watermelon rinds.  I come from the folk that don't throw anything away, ever.  The anti-consumption element - that's rural America, where the memory of the Great Depression lives on through the self-sufficiency and thrift of its people.  We didn't recycle, but then we didn't waste, either.   We had the first two R's down pat; if you do the first two, you don't need the third.)* 

It is true that I will blog with passion and emotion.  However, those things do not necessarily exclude logic.  They are necessary to any endeavor.   And it is because of my passion that you can trust my intent.  Don't hesitate to correct me when I might be wrong about something.  While I wish I understood it all, I know that I don't.  If you're knowledgeable, share it.