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In recent times I have not been receiving much in the way of good news, apart from a second attempt at hosting a party has managed to entice a friend all the way from Manchester. I have received two rejections from universities, fortunately there I am still awaiting a response from my favoured university, and issues relating to the opposite sex have returned to their usual position after trying to start two relationships in third gear. That which I have just stated however is entirely irrelevant to point that this blog pot shall be questioning. My genetic seniors have in the past couple of days both talked to me about my blog and its contents. They were both approaching it from the same view point, but have addressed it in two different methods.

I am more often called my mother's son than my father's. This tends to be due to how I deal with people. Senior (my father) is always described as an alpha male, so is older brother which makes this house interesting when both occupy it, and I have a very good method of dealing with him. Like OB (older brother) I can disagree quite fundamentally with him, and in a fashion true to my family heritage I can either talk the hind legs off of a donkey or can teach a mountain about immobility. Unlike OB I do not confront senior on every little matter, I go by a family friend's method of dealing with the alpha male: "Agree with him, then go away and do what you want", or as I term it "say yes and don't do it". My analogy however is an over simplified view, and I am moving rather rapidly toward the second method. I say this as my father recently consulted/confronted (not sure which one to take it as) and requested that I delete it.
My initial reaction was, internally, complete outrage. I let him continue however as he is older, though not necessarily wiser, and the point he made was one that did force me to think. I should distance myself from this blog as potential employers may well look at it and not like my impassioned views, extreme I do believe was the implication.
Life Giver, LG (mother), discussed this with me the next day. Now I say I am oft described as my mother's son, and it is due to my handling of people. My mother does not have the same granite running through her veins that Senior does so is much easier going and enjoys discussions, as do I. Senior tends to view these as arguments. I did once have a three hour debate on the merits of senior researchers spending time preventing the "theory" of intelligent design being taught in science classes in the USA. Since that debate I have been banned on debating things with that member of the family. Anyway past the waffle and back to the point on the talks about this blog. LG was more concerned by the language I used to portray my views on this blog. I was being more like Farage than like Hannan, my description not hers. She thinks that I should play devil's advocate against myself on this blog. Whilst that maybe more interesting and intellectually challenging it was never really the point of this blog.
I started this blog as a method of releasing unresearched, unforgiving and possibly unreasonable rants about anything. It has turned political mainly due my paying attention to politics, which makes me more irate than those poor overpaid actors, playing at being athletes for several million pounds a year... otherwise known as footballers. I wished for people to challenge me on any points they disagreed with, but with only one person ever replying I never do really research much more into what I rant about.
From these two conversations I see myself left with several options, which I shall turn into a poll. What should I do with this blog, and are those options possible:

1. Delete blog so it can't be found by potential employers and give up on this.
2. Delete blog so it can't be found by potential employers and start a new anonymous one.
3. Remove my name so that I can't be traced to this blog and continue as is.
4. Remove my name so that I can't be traced to this blog and start playing devil's advocate with myself on it.
5. Change nothing and continue as is.
6. Change nothing but the parameters of the blog to play devil's advocate with myself.

Having been told to delete it outright by Senior, I am most tempted by 5 as I'll be damned if I'll be forced to do anything. Reasoning it through either 4 or 6 seem like the more logical choices. 1 and 2, to me, are there simply because they are options. If anyone can think of impossibilities in any of the options 1 to 6 or can think of others please comment with them and I shall start the new poll on Monday.