My Fucking Christ. Will you learn to write?

I'm getting less and less tolerant of the unwashed, unlearned masses who continue to write such pitifully bad grammar on such important sites. My blog sucks. Yours is important. Remember that. Techdirt, Ad-rag, countless other influential blogs are completely hobbled by critically poor grammar. It's essentially the same as having a good idea or news tidbit, and then beating it about the head and shoulders with a cricket bat.

Yes, it's volunteer work, but so is the crayon drawings your little picaso keeps giving me. YOU put them on YOUR fridge, super-dad, and maybe give that fucker some ritalin, for christ's sake. The point is, some people have great ideas, but lack the ability to convey them in an acceptable manner; until they learn the skills, they need a writing mentor. From whom would they learn the skills otherwise? By not supporting the idea of intelligent review and some kind of critical assessment, you may no longer complain when an 80-year-old senile Union guy moves you into your new house. You may go stand over there in the Foolishly Complacent circle with the Dodo and the Brontosaurus.

Ah hell, who'm I kidding? Half the people reading those things are the same: they wouldn't even notice the 3rd-grade grammar mistakes either, so what's the point in wasting one's time to correct one's own work? Folks have replaced personal pride with national arrogance, and so it's not like doing something well or completely is important any longer; they'll still be The Best and invade you for your oil if you don't agree.

I can't but think that this pathetically bad writing is plugging up the drains of the 'net like so much Seattle storm pipe in a light drizzle, mocking the people who permitted the lowest bidder to install these things without any follow-up inspection. Is that what happened? Have we again had someone choose the lowest bidder from a bunch of free labour? I want to inspect the work! Someone isn't doing the complete job.

I hope my kids don't see this dreck and think it's how people should write. I want them to be pushed through our pathetic and apathetic school system with some knowledge of basic human skills to go with the phony A on the report card that every kid gets.