Kathy Says It The Best

I read the articles by Jon Kay and Barbara Kay this morning in the dead tree version of the National Post and damned if I didn't get too busy today to pay it proper mind.

Kathy, my delightful buddy put it better than I could. I meant to talk to her today and say "hey-Kathy, did you see those two articles-ARE THEY WHACK OR WHAT??

It is absolutely true that scavenging by the mainstream media by bloggers happens ALL THE TIME. But I have personally had ideas rejected by several mainstream publications only to see them in print-slightly modified-the next day or a few days later.

I always see people swiping Kate the Great's lines and scaramouche-well she is a fine a writer as any. Both her and Kathy would be fantastic additions to the wimpy editorial pages that exist in Canada. Kathy's stuff is contstantly being used as 'inspiration' for pieces in the National Post.

So it is simply not true that us "dainty" women don't have skin tough enough for this game.

We have the ideas and the writing ability, but some of us have ideas that are just not 'mainstream' enough for most gutless publications.

Kathy's hubby is super awesome about sharing and hat tipping. He's super awesome in general.

Then there is Mark Steyn. You know Steyn has absolute oodles of fans all over the world. Mark Steyn never hesitates to credit ideas that he has seen on blogs. The guy is a mensch and a mentor. Steyn: The Menschy Mentor!!!

Writing under my own name, I've bin a magnet for plenty of antisemitic and lefty spew.

I don't sob into a box of Kleenex and down a box of Oreos lamenting that I am a mere woman who would be better off as a kindergarten teacher-I actually get off on it.

I'm thinking that it is pretty exciting and gratifying to work a bunch of Jew-hating lefty bastards into a frothing, seething lather.

Try as I may to stay all dainty and ladylike-I rather enjoy sending Nazi/Jihadi sympathizers into a tizzy.

The standard mainstream media response to bloggers or other assorted "cranks" is "well if you don't like it-start your own blog/newspaper, etc.."

Well, we have! And our ideas are constantly being liberated by the mainstream media.

Wish I had gotten to this at the top of the day, but I had to get the lunches made, the kids all to school, work a full day, rehearse some spiffy jazz numbers with a fantastic accompanist at lunch, work with the better half on dinner, run out for diapers and milk before plopping into the comfy chair waiting for the kids to snore peacefully and putting some stuff on my blog...

Most opinion writers in Canada are white men with little edge and many pass down writing gigs like they were some kind of Arabian style inheritance that must go from generation to generation.

So there. If we don't have the stuff, then why are people reading our blogs. We see where you are coming from-government, CBC, National Post, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, the State Department, the House of Congress.

We're the ones doing the research, posting the fun stuff, making you think and laugh, letting you know about the jihadis in your midst and keeping you informed about the most egregious delinces in our civilization. We're not a bunch of whining, estrogen laden wimps without opinions.

Ahh-print journalism. One day revered, the next day fish wrap.