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October 17, 2006
Update
It seems it's been an even two weeks since I last posted, and my guilt at leaving my dozen or so loyal readers without an update has finally caught up with me.
For the last couple of months I have resisted mightily the notion that I had blogger burnout--then the evidence could no longer be ignored. I suppose I could explain it away by mentioning outside life stuff, but dedicated bloggers find a way around that. Then a week ago, just about the time I had decided blogging had lost its luster for me, I realized it wasn't blogging itself I was sick of--it was politics in general.
I started this blog shortly after the crucible of the 2004 presidential election; although it seemed as though the midterms began to dominate the news with nary a respite, I figured that nothing could be worse from a stress point of view. But instead of stimulating me, the upcoming elections--combined with the recent Foley scandal, Ronnie Earle's success in removing Tom Delay from office, the ongoing borderline treasonous leaks of classified information and the administration's limp-wrested response, Condi Rice's metamorphosis into the second coming of Warren Christopher, the return of James Baker as a policy influence, the utterly tin-eared and wrongheaded White House approach to the immigration disaster, the insidious and relentless bias of the mainstream media, to name a few--have succeeded in beating down my interest in keeping up. And if I can't be bothered to keep up, there's certainly not going to be much blogging. Not only am I not blogging, my usual voracious perusing of my favorite political blogs has fallen off.
So I, like many others, will take a break. I may very well post from time to time, but it will be on a sporadic schedule. There are a ton of things that require my attention around the house just now anyway; hopefully getting those out of the way will coincide with a renewed interest.
And I do sincerely apologize to any regular readers for not posting sooner.
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Comments
Don't feel bad, Jeff. I dropped off for a while too. My burnout was caused by my separation from my wife. While you are on hiatus, feel free to drop by my site. I've just started back, so I'll pick up the slack for you.
Posted by: The Bad at October 18, 2006 12:54 PM
Thanks, and I'll be dropping by.
Posted by: Jeff at October 18, 2006 10:14 PM
By all means, take a break. But come back some time, will ya? Preferably to gripe about the dem landslide.
Posted by: jpe at October 22, 2006 06:39 PM
Enjoy your break. I know exactly of what you speak, feeling precisely the same way about politics and blogging, for quite some time. It looks like things won't get better until they first get much worse.
Just remember to vote.
And pray...
--RDS
Posted by: RDS at October 22, 2006 07:28 PM
Thanks for chiming in, RDS and jpe. Reading your stuff has been one of the highlights of this whole endeavour.
Posted by: Jeff at October 22, 2006 10:43 PM
Landslide? Not bloody likely!
Posted by: The Bad at October 25, 2006 01:05 PM
