It is a plague.

I do not think about writing here very often. Most of the times that I do, I have just read something in the news about this or that conservative politician’s cold-blooded agenda or some government character selling us out for its own gain. Yes, I, like many others, am most motivated to write when I am angry.This is partly to blame for my low post volume. The process goes like this:

1. I read something, and get angry.
2. I start writing a post about it, probably late at night.
3. It gets too late for me to trust my writing ability. I save the work in progress and go to sleep.
4. I wake up, uncoffeed and groggy, and read what I wrote the night before.
5. “Uhm, who cares?” I think.
6. I click the little “delete” button.

If it were not for the fact that this seems to leave only nerd posts and bland “sorry for the lack of posts” posts, I would say that this is a good thing.  Ideally, this blog would be full of smart things.  Significant observations.  Non-trivial analysis.  Things that don’t make me sound like a frothing-at-the-mouth, Che-Guevara-t-shirt-wearing liberal who writes like an old lady columnist for a small-town red-state local paper. This is what I am hoping to do this time around.  The odds are set against me, but there are no reasons not to try.

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