Blogging Goes Legit

We hear the insults.

Bloggers are no-names. We are malcontents. We live in our parents' basements, practicing onanism like Tiger Woods practices putting.

Well we have news for you, blogger-haters. Laugh no more, because a man who has the earned respect of many for his political activism and musical genius is joining our growing club.

Krist Novoselic has started a blog.

This hero of the 1990s, a man who had the courage to throw his bass at his face on national television, and warn us all about the threat of Jerry Brown, will write every Tuesday on The Daily Weekly.

In his first post, he displays the clarity of thought that gets him mentioned in the same breath as George Orwell with a 725-word post that concludes:

Considering the lack of a coherent ideology, why not take a look at decentralized structures? While it’s an antiquated term, in need of a new name, Anarchism needs to be discussed in context of the current system. We need not smash our institutions. But we can transition toward practical reform. The key is in another term used within the punk rock movement: Do It Yourself or DIY.

And yourself doesn’t mean alone.