Oh my god. GOP chairman Michael Steele has a blog on the new GOP.com, and the first entry is horribly, horribly written.

Does he really not know to write? Or is he just pandering to the GOP’s anti-intellectualism?

The Internet has been around a while, now. But, I still find it an amazing platform for innovation, not just in technology, but in life. Beyond admiring the way it powers so many inventions and businesses, it has become a personal thing for me. I love the fact that, wherever I might be, I can use technology to see my family and chat with them, and Social Media to tap into what my friends are doing.

Unnecessary commas, unnecessary capitalization and a dangling participle, and that’s just the first paragraph.

To the Editor:

Re “A Library to Last Forever” (Op-Ed, Oct. 9):

Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, writes, “Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice — fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.”

Fly??? I’m pretty sure I can e-mail a reference librarian and ask her to check holdings before I do anything so drastic as fly. Hasn’t this guy ever heard of the Internet?

Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Danbury, Conn., Oct. 9, 2009

So, Republican senator Olympia Snowe has announced she’ll vote for the Baucus committee health plan.

You know what’s absurd? Olympia Snowe is a “centrist,” and if, for some reason, she had switched parties a few months ago and decided to become a Democrat like Arlen Specter, her vote today would be just another example of partisanship. But because she happens to have an R after her name instead of a D, her vote is oh so important and the Democrats must win her over so we can have bipartisanship.

Ridiculous. If there were 99 Democrats and one Republican in the Senate, the Democrats would still be wringing their hands over that one Republican’s vote.