Man-Blogging

I met my friend Pundista at lunch today. I hadn’t seen her in awhile as she was off helping the Cubans at the World Baseball Classic. She’s a very benevolent person and likes her cigars. As she was the original inspiration for my blog and she hasn’t blogged since the 15,330 anniversary of my birth, I asked her why she hadn’t been writing lately.

Woman Blogging

She said “I haven’t been blogging because it makes me anti-social. I spend all my weekends doing research”

Man Blogging

Research?

First there was the whole ear-wax thing, and now this. I’m beginning to understand the differences between men and women may be insurmountable.

What follows in an account of a Man-Bloggers' method of research on some subject, say, ants:

1. Open bottle of wine.
2. Pour first glass of wine.
3. Drink wine.
4. Type “ants” into Google toolbar.
5. Verify data: type “ants” into Yahoo search box.
6. Pour more wine.
7. Hit the "Publish" button.
   

Principal of Limited Sloppiness

There is much anecdotal evidence that if woman ruled the earth, things would be much better off. After all, if we had researched WMD, there almost certainly would not be another war in Iraq. But just think of all the wonderful discoveries made without research:

1. Alexander Flemings discovery of penicillin. No self respecting woman would have ever let a cheese sandwich become moldy, nor would she have tested it for medicinal properties. She would have researched it.

2. Discovery of the New World. Columbus was looking for fricken Indonesia. You honestly think if he would have sailed in the wrong direction if he had been a woman and had done his research?

3. In 1879, Louis Pasteur inoculated some chickens with cholera bacteria. He was trying to kill some chickens. Chance, not research, had led him to discover the principle of vaccination for disease prevention.

4. In 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen was experimenting with electrical discharges. There was a screen coated with a barium compound lying to one side, and Roentgen noticed that it would fluoresce when an electrical discharge would occur in the tube he was watching. On reaching for the screen, Roentgen got his hand between the discharge tube and the screen and saw the bones of his own hand through the shadow of his skin. In 1901, Roentgen received the Nobel prize for his accidental discovery of X-rays.

So in the best “Principal of Limited Sloppiness” tradition of Man-Blogging, don’t think, just blog.