Graydog to Fraydog re: straw dog

I've just finished reading one of Carbondale's home grown blogs, "Fraydog's Blog Log," and the author, writing from his SIU dorm room, deserves "props" for web savvy, if not for political acumen. Here's why: the website is well-designed and organized, but his old-fashioned political conservativism is curiously out-of-touch with his own "Information Age" message--he's forgotten the rule of irony. IRONY RULZ!

Quoting from an article in the Southern Illinoisan, Fraydog imputes certain paranoid and conspiratorial motives to the peace protesters (Lee Hartman, among others) which the protesters do not believe, and did not say! Retired-Prof. Hartman is much too intelligent to think, let alone say (as Fraydog asserts) that "Bush is a Nazi." That straw dog won't hunt.

Ironically, the young author appears to suffer from similar delusions about "the Left" and "the Right." Like me, he draws inspiration from Libertarian political logic: less government, more freedom. Yet he is curiously blind to the current President's failure to follow that principle. How many of us feel freer and safer today than we did four years ago?

Fraydog has a link to another local blog, Cannon's Canon, which is also politically conservative. The author will be the auctioneer at the Egyptian Campaign Game Convention on the SIU campus this weekend and so will the guy who writes Nodwick comic books. I think I may take a bike ride to campus and say 'hi', then go to the Glove Factory to check out the artwork of this year's Rickert-Ziebold Award finalists. There are twenty altogether. Last year 4 finalists split $20,000.