The Aerie

Way Too Self Involved

While I've got a couple of problems with my daily routine, one that I've recognized is that if I listen to too much news or talk radio before I post a blog, my blog wants to turn into a political rant. But I have no desire to post a political blog. Other much more dedicated, educated, and anal-retentive people run political blogs, apparently with outside funding of some source because they don't seem to do anything else all day. I couldn't compete with them even if I wanted to, which I don't. And I really don't want to shoot off my mouth reactionary-style on various political topics because I rarely feel like I really know enough about what's going on to defend my position under close scrutiny. I mean, I might get annoyed at Policy X out of D.C., but I'm aware that inside the Beltway Policy X may be understood to be a straw man, or to really be a compromise between Policies Y and Z, or something that would render my opinions both ignorant and pointless.

On the other hand I have political opinions, strong political opinions, and while I don't want to clog my blog (heh, "Clog my blog" is funny) with them, neither do I want to artificially stuff down my opinions. In which case I have to occasionally post the political entry anyway. In the past, however, I've reserved my Political comments to post on "The Usual Suspects." So maybe I'll post those there, much like Lileks reserves his political screeds for a separate blog he calls The Screed.

The other thing I've noticed about the blogging is that I tend to go on too long, and get too fancy - inline images, 3000-word entries, etc. Maybe I should try more frequent, shorter blog entries. Not sure. Not sure if I can keep it short, that is. I mean, I usually intend entries to be short, but before I know it they're 3000 words long and full of linked images.

Anyway, THIS entry has gone on too long, so I'll leave it be. Maybe I'll do another entry later! Or not!

That's me, Joe Ambivalent. I think.