Everyone seems to have a laundry list of things the Obama Administration simply HAS to fix on their first day in office. Personally, I trust the new people to do many, many good things without my prodding.

So I have only one simple request. Can someone please, please kill the U.S. State Department’s official blog? I mean, I appreciate the effort. But the content has been so bland and so painfully disconnected from the major events of the day.

As Charlie Brown once wrote:

Almost none of Dipnote’s features are interesting or revealing (except in the sense that it shows the degree to which the Department can grind the originality out of anything). I’m guessing that the mandarins at State have put so many clearance filters on this thing, that almost nothing of any value can get through.

So please Mr. President, put this well-intentioned tool out of its misery. And if that isn’t possible, can we at least change the name? I mean really. Dipnote? Really?

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