So here is a crazy little idea I had this morning. I'd put together a very simple site called 'sayonenicething.us'. The home page for the site would be a two column layout. One one side it would be nice things that people on the left say about people on the right, on the other side nice things that people on the right say about people on the left.
Adding an item to either list would require registration, which is free, and would take your name, your email and where you live. Registered readers can also comment on each entry, and give it a rating (0-5 stars, thumbs up or down, or something like that.) You don't have to say whether you are right or left, you just post where you want to post today.
And that's really it. I can imagine that there would also be RSS feed URLs for either left, right, or both together.
Honestly, I think it would be self-regulating. When people post nasty stuff, which they surely will, the comments will kick them back in line. And frankly, somebody stepping out of line and getting bopped by both sides may just be the kind of remedy we need.
Anyway, the idea is to get back to what's common with all of us. We all love baseball or football, we all love barbeques and days at the beach. We all want a nice place for our kids to grow up. We all get choked up when they play the anthem. And we all love it when we win at the olympics. So why are we letting these politicians and pundits, on both the left and the right, rip us apart? The nation suffers, we all get ulcers, and they get rich! So screw 'em. Let's talk again and find out that we are all more the same then we are different.
Posted by jherr at February 23, 2006 01:27 PMI'm working on a song right now with that theme!!
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