I never much liked church, even when I was a believer. It was sort of boring. The fellowship was good, I suppose, and there was a sermon or two that put a spin on things that gave me pause. But for the most part: dull. Nowadays, that’s more or less the reason I don’t listen to “progressive” radio or watch “left” type political shows. Preaching to the choir. You might say The Daily Show is an exception, but really, it’s more a watch-dog program than merely left-leaning. Mostly they vilify the right, but they’re not afraid of taking on the left as well.

This blog aspires to be like that as well, hence the name. All punditry is foolish. Pundits are basically lobbyists to the public. Yes, I’m hoping you pick up on the negative connotation of “lobbyists.”

To that end, I have the radio these days tuned to the conservative station. I end up hearing Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Michael Savage. Sometimes local guys. Sometimes Rush Limbaugh. As for the latter, he’s really becoming a case of inverse Poe’s Law (there may be another word for this—let me know). I hear him literally huffing and puffing and saying outlandish things, I can’t be certain it’s not an actor doing a parody of him.

Yesterday I heard Glenn Beck making fun of the census, but I got bored before I could tell if he was just being silly or if he had a real problem with it. A quick search today reveals he does, indeed, have a problem with the Census. It will bring back slavery, don’t you know, because it asks you what race you are.

I looked to see what Rush and Sean had to say, but didn’t find much in my quick searches—just people saying that Rush was against it, in general, something about it being unconstitutional or not what the founding father shad in mind, and all I could find on from Hannity was rantin’ and ravin’ against ACORN, which at one point was going to assist the Census Bureau, but now is not.

Other searches for Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilly only yielded more left-wing rantin’ and ravin’. I guess I’ll need to watch their shows and read their columns to catch this stuff myself. This is not something I relish doing.

At any rate, I need to come up with a justification for your reading all this. So here’s the payoff—we got out Census questionnaire in the mail yesterday, and I’m sort of excited. We’re going to fill it out on the same day we do our taxes. I can’t speak for anyone else, left or right, white or not, but I’m feeling pretty good about being an American, getting to participate like this. Some people like to vote. Me, I like to contribute.