Intro

I guess this means that my resurgent desire to return to blogging has been realized. I haven't been active since last year's election, but I appreciate the ability to provide sourced commentary in a location separate from instant messaging clients and in longer form than Twitter allows.

My intention is to use this space as a depository for the insoluble -- mostly political -- sediment of my stream of consciousness. We'll see how that pans out.

I read, and will probably most often post links and excerpts from, specific blogs:

• Glenn Greenwald
• Kevin Drum
• Wonkette
• Matt Yglesias
• Think Progress
• Andrew Sullivan
• Balloon Juice
• Talking Points Memo

I would read more, but I have to find a happy medium between working and reading. I also skew toward blogs that have RSS feeds, to save myself from having to remember so many URLs.

Anyway, the insoluble topics that are of the most interest to me right now involve the politicization of U.S. torture and the resulting impunity for the criminals who authorized and perpetrated it, and exposing what I (and others) believe to be the failures of the establishment press and the falsity of the "liberal media" meme.

Eventually, I may allow or solicit friends to join me in this, though we have other such outlets. Hopefully, future posts will be a bit more interesting.