This blog will run like horses, turning cogs and sprockets in the name of milling cane sugar.

Making sugar was intense back in the good 'ol days. Back when human beings had a work expectancy of seven years, and you couldn't point to one piece of food in Campus Center Dining Hall that wasn't injected with sugar.

The first sugar plantations used African slaves, but this wasn't the original conception. As we all know, 90 to 95 percent of the Aztecs were killed by European cooties, not their several dozen men with guns. Now, Europeans are in no way immune to disease, some have argued that Syphilis was brought back to Europe from the "New World." Knowing this, you can understand that when Europeans mozy'd down to the Canary Islands, their deathbeds received them with an unheard of vigor. What would replace this European import labor? Simple, the African slave trade.

Slaves were routinely kept in Africa; war captives, pickers of the short straw, et cetera. When brought to work the plantations, they were treated as a commodity. Slaves were machines that held up for 7 years, give or take. Sugar was terribly labor-intensive, with steps that required heavy micromanagement. The reciprocal of the sugar practices was best displayed by Haiti in 1791.

So with these modest beginnings we have the African Slave Trade. Soon African slaves would supplant the Aztecs and Incas who died of European disease. Oh the cruel and unbelievable irony!

After I post in my blog, I must run to the church to confess this venial sin.

The only person privy to this blog is Professor Eric Sterbenk, anyone else who attempts to read will see the optical illusion of their internet browser struggling to read simplified chinese characters. Rumor has it that if you kill him you become him, and this is the only solution science has arrived for reading this blog. I strongly advise everyone not to hurt Professor Sterbenk, for he seems to me like a very good professor, and therefore anyone's decision to harm him would only be met with disdain and hard time.
This blog accounts for 10% of my grade for my Media Writing class. Despite my personal distate for blogs it seems that Professor Sterbenk is right in assigning this. The "blogosphere" is certainly no child's toy, for the number of bloggers comfortably sits in the tens of millions. Many major scandals, such as the Trent Lott and "Rathergate" fiascos, were unearthed by this behemoth blogosphere.
So where should this blog be anchored? I certainly have no desire to tell any of you how exciting and absolutely kickass my everyday life is, and I certainly have no desire to dethrone the shrewd Andy Rooney. I guess this blog will research something, a topic of interest such as Ireland, or blogs themselves.

Blog entries on a blog? I don't know about that one. One time I typed "Google" into Google and the world wide web's backbone was broken for a good 4 hours.