Guest Post and Update

Hi there, folks!

It's early as I write this, much earlier than I like my brain to be awake on a Saturday. So if there are typos or illogical thoughts, I give you my weakest apologies. I've been really busy this week, and had very little time to post. I'm a bit disgruntled that I'm out of bed at the moment, actually. I need sleep. Oh well. This might be the only time I have to post today, so I can't really complain.

Anyway, I wanted to let my readers know that this past Wednesday, July 3, I was able to contribute a guest post to one of my favorite blogs, Beneath the Tangles. The post is called Confessions of a Complaining Naruto Fan. I was going to post a link to it the day it came out, but I've been busy having fun with family and friends away from my computer screen. If you wander over there to read it, I recommend sticking around and seeing what else the site has to offer. Charles/TWWK and his co-bloggers have some pretty good material up.

In other news, in case you haven't noticed, Annalyn's Thoughts got a Facebook page a little over two weeks ago! I even made myself a new avatar for the occasion, as you see to the left. I'm not quite ready to switch from my usual screenshot of Lydia to this girl on most sites, but I wanted something I made myself for my blog's Facebook profile picture. I'm enjoying getting familiar with out Facebook pages works as I post and follow other pages.

Also, I've been considering doing a kind of "Throwback Thursday" thing where I feature something I treasure from days past - be it a blog post here, a anime review or blog post from other sites, a comment on an anime I used to love (and maybe still do). I dunno. What do you think?

Fed Up With Immature "Discussion"

I don't mind discussing, debating, or even arguing politics. In fact, I love it! And rallying, joining together with like-minded people is great. However, some people take it too far. On Facebook, I became a fan of "Being Conservative." With Reagan for a profile picture, you'd think the group made distinguished posts and warrant good discussion. Unfortunately, that's not usually the case.

A recent post by the "Being Conservative" group stated, "Dear Obama: take 2011 off and don't come to work. 'Like' if this is one of your New Years wishes." This post turned into an outlet for my fellow discontented conservatives to voice their... disapproval of our president. I understand the need for an outlet, but got fed up with the seeming lack of thoughtful, issue-related comments. So, I thought I'd post my comment here as well to share my annoyance.

Look, I don't like President Obama either, but my friends and I have more mature discussions about him and other politics... and we're teenagers! If I were a liberal, I'd look at these comments and think, "What argumentative, insulting, broken records these conservatives are!"
Obama is liberal, and the most pro-choice president we've ever had. But he's still the president, and comments like these help no one. The American people woke up a little during the last Congress election, and we're not helpless. Let's use our passion towards something useful - like research, writing, intelligent discussion/debate, protests, letter writing... something more productive than showing a nasty face to our fellow facebook users.
I know I'm younger than most of you, and I'm sorry for the lecture. I just get frustrated when I see a bunch of unproductive, immature comments on political issues. I get even more frustrated when the comments are coming from my fellow conservatives, since they hinder our cause more than help.
Oh, and this comment doesn't apply to those of you who are just happy to imagine a world without the negatives of Obama and aren't supplying useless immature comments. There's a difference between rallying and spouting unintelligible words. Sometimes that difference is a fine line.

Maybe I'm taking it all too seriously, but I think most of the other people who commented weren't thinking enough.