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Blogging Hiatus

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I had thought I would resume blogging today, but then again, had also assumed I would have had a chance to blog this weekend.

On Friday, a good friend from grad school and I headed to Utah to help the wife of another grad school buddy surprise her husband on his birthday.  As that friend often checks this blog, I didn’t want to mention anything that might tip him off to my trip.  Sure enough he was totally surprised.

While in Utah, I spent the better part of my time engaged in great conversations with my friends (and my Utah friend and family) about politics, mythology, graduate school and faith — not to mention superheroes.  I also had fun being an “uncle” to his kids, playing Justice League with his sons and taking his daughter to see Kung Fu Panda, a fun flick I cannot recommend highly enough.

As a result, I didn’t have any time for blogging, indeed, didn’t even have time to check the news.  I only knew that the great Tim Russert had passed (perhaps the most even-handed Sunday talk show host/broadcast journalist) of our day because a friend texted me the information.  Truly a great loss.

Russert was a man unwilling to bow to the liberal tenor of his colleagues, frequently asking tough questions of Democratic politicians as well as Republican ones.  While some of the far left may berate him, he was the first to ask truly challenge their nemesis in the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination–Hillary Clinton–when he pressed the New York Senator on whether she supported the then-New York Governor’s plan to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.

Perhaps he became such a classy guy because he got his political start working for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a liberal New York Senator who had a deep understanding of and respect for conservative ideas.

I had thought I would blog when I got back to LA late yesterday afternoon, but felt quite off balance on my return.  Maybe it was that I hadn’t had any quiet time this weekend.  Normally, to relax, I need a few hours of quiet at my desk.  (Perhaps I should blog on this notion of needed quiet.)

Anyway, I seem to be regaining my center and hope to be back up to my normal blogging speed as soon as tomorrow (Tuesday) if not by Wednesday.

One final note.  I try to refrain from blogging when I feel off-center for fear I will say something rash that I might later regret. Â

This makes me wonder if some of reason some bloggers (primarily on he left) gain a reputation as being angry as they often post when they’re feeling similarly off.  That accounts for the rancor of those posts as their authors project their own inner turmoil onto their ideological adversaries so they don’t have to deal with the confusion of conflicting emotions.  Instead, they try to find explanations outside themselves for the difficulties, the anxieties we all face.

UPDATE:  Corrected some of the language in the concluding paragraph and want to make clear I’m not referring to all left-wing bloggers, just those obsessed with attacking Bush and other conservatives.

Comments

  1. Welcome back, don’t apologize for taking a break from blogging to spend time with friends.
    As to liberal bloggers being so angry. I know many warm loving kind liberals, but then are the others, the ones who project all their anger and disappointments on the rest of us. If you’ve been told your whole life thats’ its ‘ all about feelings, then why would they practice any form of self control.

    Which explains why I read very few lefty blogs.

  3. Today I got to hear Russert being interviewed by Rush back in 2004 about a book he wrote about his father, for his son. Was a neat interview. I won’t try to relate any of the stories, but its pretty clear Russert was the man he was because of his dad — a child of the depression and a WWII vet. I don’t usually go in for that kind of book, but I’m going to give this one a look.

  4. I completely agree. I saw Luke Russert on the TODAY show yesterday. What a tribute to his Dad he is! I think Meet the Press would be well served putting him on for a few weeks/months until they decided what to do. Or could we bring Tom Brokaw back?????

  6. I’m with Peter on this one, put Rush in that chair! That will make for interesting TV.

    As for Luke, I wish him the best in world, but simply following in his fathers’ foot steps isn’t a good idea. Especially if he is handed his dads’ position on a platter. I”m glad he spoke well, but I never understood these dynasty things.

    When John Kennedy junior died in that plane crash – I remember the agony on the left – now the Kennedys’ are really over, we won’t have our Camelot again. All I could think of was: what did John-John ever do in his life that made anyone think he could be a leader of any sort.

    Let Luke find his own way in life, maybe nothing to do with journalism whatsoever.

  7. #7 – Right on, Leah. Although I think that Luke has some talent that needs to be mined, putting him in his father’s chair on NBC will just show how incapable he is of filling his father’s shoes.

    In fact, his first appearance on MSNBC was spent discussing legalized opium dens. Not exactly “Meet the Press” material. I’m sure Tim had a few words with Junior about that one.

    I’m all for eliminating media dynasties, starting with Mika Brzyznski, Chris Wallace, Andrew Cuomo and Ivanka Trump. Don’t tell me any of those got their jobs by sheer talent; otherwise I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you.

    Regards,
    Peter H.