Chris Hedges: "In this year’s presidential election I will vote for a third-party candidate"

[MineralMan]

51. Yes, that's another award.

I have to wonder why you asked me whether I had won a Pulitzer, like Hedges. Like all awards, they represent something, but do not mean that everything a writer produces is award-worthy. As it happens, I have won some awards for my writing. I don't write professionally about any subjects of interest to the Pulitzer folks, though. Those awards are meaningless, however, except in relation to the particular writing I did at that time to win the award.

It's interesting that you attempt to draw some parallel between my opinion of Chris Hedges with my own work as a writer. Why would you do that, I wonder? I'm not in competition with Chris Hedges for awards. I'm not even writing professionally for publications any longer. I'm retired from that. When I was writing, I wrote about technical issues from a consumer perspective. Now, I write websites for small businesses. Pretty mundane stuff.

You've expanded my opinion about Chris Hedges into some sort of competition. I'm just a DUer. I have opinions. I'm not in competition in any way with any professional political writer, but I do have an opinion, and I feel quite free to express it here on DU. While I'm honored that you even thought to compare me with Chris Hedges, I still have to wonder why you even brought that up.

That has nothing to do with my past profession, you see.