Deadly Blogging

In what is unintentionally one of the funniest articles I've read so far this year, the New York Times weighs in on the terrible and deadly toll taken among...bloggers.

That's right, the stress under which we poor souls are laboring is killing us off at a massive rate. Why, the Times cites the case of two - TWO! - bloggers who died of heart attacks in the past, um, four months. A quagmire!

After several paragraphs about the killing stress that apparently has been taking such a heavy toll among bloggers, the author does have the grace to note:

To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic. There is also no certainty that the stress of the work contributed to their deaths. But friends and family of the deceased, and fellow information workers, say those deaths have them thinking about the dangers of their work style.

(I'll wait while you stop laughing.)

Seems to me as if we've just knocked down the premise of the story, right?

Look, most of us blog because we like blogging. And it tends to relieve stress. It can even give us a chance to vent.

But I will admit that I'm careful not to let my life insurance lapse...