2 proofs that the government shouldn’t blog

I find this very funny. Yes, the State Department has a blog. So citizen journalism finds it’s match at some office in Washington. Likely, some government worker collects quite a salary and made blogging sound very difficult and official sounding.

Let me give just two reasons why the State Department shouldn’t be blogging.

1. Proof #1: Yes, the State Department’s blog is called "Dipnote." I don’t know if people in Washington know this, but calling someone a "dip" means that you think someone is an idiot. So you could translate the name of their blog to "the idiot note." Smooth move.
2. Proof #2: Don’t advertise mistakes. This week they unveiled a video made by Disney (at Disney’s expense) to show the world how wonderful the US is. Only problem, one caption shows the Canadian part of Niagara Falls. Oops. The video is below.

Now, it’s an innocent mistake. And it’s only a second or two of video… but you’ve got to make sure that a video of America actually features all of America.