One of the many dangers in hosting an opinion blog is the risk that my viewpoint is going to offend some people though nine times out of ten…no, ten times out of ten, I didn’t intend for it to happen that way. In my opinion, that reader, or readers, took what I wrote out of context.
I’ve accepted what I will blog about in the future, as well as what I’ve written in the past, that not everyone is going to agree with my opinions. The problem is some, not all, are clueless as to what an opinion is. So much so that they take what I wrote or said personally and declare a “jihad” against me by deleting me from their social media contact lists, stupidly thinking their misguided “holy war” is going to keep me up at night. (I actually sleep pretty well, if not better, especially knowing they removed me from existence on their social media accounts). Last time I checked America is still a free country and so long as I’m not breaking any laws, I can write whatever the hell I want.
The Last Op-ed Blogger
Well you can't turn Joe into a company man
You can't turn Joe into a whore
And his biased liberal friends want nothing to do with him anymore
Well the Fakebook world don't like him blogging so much
And he won't write what they say to write
And he don't want to change what don't need to change
And there goes the last op-ed blogger
Who blogs what he wants to blog
And writes what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last written voice
There goes the last op-ed blogger
Well some liberals say they're gonna hang Joe so high
Because you just can't blog what he blogged
There's just some things you can't pound into 'dem die-hard socialist kids
As Democrats and Hollyweird celebrate hypocrisy all 'dem liberals just want to see
Only blogs that bash the conservative hard right for free
And there goes the last op-ed blogger
Who blogs what he wants to blog
And writes what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last written voice
And there goes the last op-ed blogger
Well he got himself a blog named Darth Stumpo
And when time allows he’ll publish something new
And he’ll bust a move and remember how it was back then
There goes the last op-ed blogger
Who blogs what he wants to blog
And writes what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last written voice
And there goes the last op-ed blogger
©6/5/19
I’ve accepted what I will blog about in the future, as well as what I’ve written in the past, that not everyone is going to agree with my opinions. The problem is some, not all, are clueless as to what an opinion is. So much so that they take what I wrote or said personally and declare a “jihad” against me by deleting me from their social media contact lists, stupidly thinking their misguided “holy war” is going to keep me up at night. (I actually sleep pretty well, if not better, especially knowing they removed me from existence on their social media accounts). Last time I checked America is still a free country and so long as I’m not breaking any laws, I can write whatever the hell I want.
I am not going to offer justification to what I blogged about so readers understand the “method in my madness” as to where I was coming from when I wrote it. Nor will I waste words explaining what an op-ed blog is or apologize if what I write causes backlash.That being said I’ve been listening to a lot of songs on my iPhone over the past month. Though I’ve heard them many times before this was the first time, I had found that some of those tunes actually described me, like as though the songwriter had me in mind when they wrote it. I found that one of those hits, a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, called "The Last DJ" from 2002, applies to this week’s blog. I took the liberty of changing some of that song’s lyrics applying them to myself when it comes to blogging. So here is my rendition titled, "The Last Op-Ed Blogger". Feel free to sing along if you like!
The Last Op-ed Blogger
Well you can't turn Joe into a company man
You can't turn Joe into a whore
And his biased liberal friends want nothing to do with him anymore
Well the Fakebook world don't like him blogging so much
And he won't write what they say to write
And he don't want to change what don't need to change
And there goes the last op-ed blogger
Who blogs what he wants to blog
And writes what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last written voice
There goes the last op-ed blogger
Well some liberals say they're gonna hang Joe so high
Because you just can't blog what he blogged
There's just some things you can't pound into 'dem die-hard socialist kids
As Democrats and Hollyweird celebrate hypocrisy all 'dem liberals just want to see
Only blogs that bash the conservative hard right for free
And there goes the last op-ed blogger
Who blogs what he wants to blog
And writes what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last written voice
And there goes the last op-ed blogger
Well he got himself a blog named Darth Stumpo
And when time allows he’ll publish something new
And he’ll bust a move and remember how it was back then
There goes the last op-ed blogger
Who blogs what he wants to blog
And writes what he wants to say
Hey, hey, hey
And there goes your freedom of choice
There goes the last written voice
And there goes the last op-ed blogger
©6/5/19
