FEBRUARY 24, 2025

I have never liked the word blog It looks like “ugly”. It as two of the same letters and even has the same length — enough to qualify for a distant relative. It sounds like only negative words; smog, fog, blech and hog. It probably comes from “blow”, as in “blows no good”, or “block”, as in “the road is blocked”and the Latin root “logue”, to speak, such as “monologue” and “dialogue.”

Nevertheless, I’m stuck with it. I really prefer ”commentary” in the grand old tradition of Julius Caesar, who wrote about his conflict with the Gauls in “Commentaries on the Gallic Wars” in which he desctribed his encounters with the ancient peoples and really, it was an apology for his land grabbing dictatorial behavior and an attempt to blame the Gauls.

HMM Sound familiar?