Franklin, Blogger

April 30th. 2006
Sent to but not published in the Boston Globe

I hear that a group of school children are trying to persuade the state legislature to appoint Ben Franklin as the official State Inventor.

I think that this is inappropriate. His inventive period began after he left Boston for Philadelphia. However his career as a writer began at his brother's printing press in Boston. I suggest he be officially declared the State's First Blogger.