Siditty, an eloquent, inquisitive, and frequently touching blogger, has nominated Names4things for a Noblesse Oblige blog award. She writes in reference to yours truly that,
This blog is awesome. This blog is the devil’s advocate blog for me. Genius. Always taking it where people don’t think to go.
If that’s not something nice and totally unexpected, I don’t know what is. Accordingly, I am to post the criteria for winning this award:

1. The Blogger manifests exemplary attitude, respecting the nuances that pervades amongst different cultures and beliefs.
2. The Blog contents inspire; strives to encourage and offers solutions.
3. There is a clear purpose at the Blog; one that fosters a better understanding on Social, Political, Economic, the Arts, Culture and Sciences and Beliefs.
4. The Blog is refreshing and creative.
5. The Blogger promotes friendship and positive thinking.
THE RULES:
The Blogger who receives this award will need to perform the following steps:
Create a Post with a mention and link to the person who presented the Noblesse Oblige Award.
The Award Conditions must be displayed at the Post.
Write a short article about what the Blog has thus far achieved – preferably citing one or more older post to support.
The Blogger must present the Noblesse Oblige Award in concurrence with the Award conditions.
Okay. Firstly, Names4things’ attitude is the shit. This is not slang– my attitude is actually rather shitty. Inspiration and problem-solving are indeed goals, but are admittedly secondary to the need to splooge opinion. In other words, really?
I can honestly state that if I found other like-minded types who would express my opinion on a semi-regular basis, I would probably not feel the need to do so. And as I’ve demonstrated, when analog life intrudes, as it did for the first part of the year, I have more pressing things to do. Otherwise? My door is not being beat down, despite Siditty’s and my own treacherously high opinion of my musings.
In service of the last directive, I’d like to direct my reader to my Exclusive Interview With Monster’s Vagina, as an example of the type of shitty goodness brought forth by this blog. Aside from the porn aficionados who clicked on Fuck Moms! (which is actually a screedette against legislation for psychotropic drugs for the mommy condition), and Alaskan Governor’s Baby May Be Her Grandchild, it is my top post. Note to blogger wannabes: posts that use porny titles will be hit.
In conclusion, even though we’re all going to die, we’re alive right now. And that counts, until it doesn’t.
Thanks, Siditty!