Dan Conley

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”

— Abraham Lincoln

He may have suspended habeas corpus, but he sure had a way with words.

The issue, as I see it, is that the people aren’t getting ‘the real facts.’ What they’re being given is presented as truth and as such they take it. I’m a firm disbeliever in the whole ‘liberal media’ nonsense, but I do wholeheartedly believe that we as a nation are being done a disservice by neutered journalism.

Which is, I suppose, where the beer comes in.

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In about an hour I’m going to go pick Elizabeth up and start driving to Boston. We’ll be there for a week, and it should be a lot of fun.

My coworker Brie just asked me if I was ready to become a Red Sox fan. I told her that being a fan of baseball is pointless: it’s like being a proponent of red paint instead of green paint because the red dries faster. Whether or not it does is irrelevant, because at the end of the day you’re still watching paint dry.

It should be noted that posting this is ill advised, as I’ll be meeting with a fan of red paint tomorrow and I’m pretty sure he can kick my ass.

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