Just posted on my other blog. http://parentleadershipined.blogspot.com/2008/10/twitterers-that-blurt-plop.html
Political conversations are dangerous for me because I'll type blindly and hit the send key faster than my spellcheck function is running and worse, before I filter out irrational emotional outbursts.
Of different consequence is simply using the blog as a pulpit or soap-box. I forget how much I dislike being proselytized. If asked about my purposes for blogging I will state my criteria really about futhering dialogue and critical thinking I would like to believe that what I post is for a broad audience and I am reaching out to others who think differently but can be appealed to through logic and careful word-smithing.
I'm not so sure my writings meet those standards. As Henry Beard would say in Latin "Manifesto nescio quis lapsus stultus factus est"
(There's obviously been some sort of silly mistake.)