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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Now, where were we?

Hi again, everyone.  I’m back.  Ahhhh, west and wewaxation!  I had me a very nice break from bloggering.  And no major surgeries this time, I’m happy to say!  I have precisely the same number of internal organs I had when I went on hiatus, unless of course someone swiped one while I wasn’t paying attention.  I used my extra time productively, reducing my record times on minesweeper to 16 seconds (intermediate) and 105 seconds (expert).  In the outside world, I played an entire round of golf, and if you ask very very nicely, I’ll even tell you the story of Father’s Day 2005, when I went out and shot a dumb-luck 79 that featured three jawdropping putts on the final three holes, all of ‘em made with the thirty-year-old blade putter I’d found in the garage and tossed into my bag on a last-second whim as I was packing up the car.  You’ll love that story, trust me.  Also, I cleaned out my study at home and went to the gym and took a whole bunch of showers, not all at once.  What else?  I read some books, and will be happy to tell you about them.  I’ve also been watching some hockey games, but I promise not to blog about those.  Not today, anyway.

Many, many thanks to Amanda and Lance for their wonderful (and infallible!) guest blogging, for their incisive Go Fug Yourself-defending and Inner Liberal-embracing.  Quite apart from the west and wewaxation involved in a bloggering break, it was a real delight to stop by the site and find new great stuff every day.  Thank you both—and please feel free to call on me anytime for any kind of favor that doesn’t involve the commission of a felony.  (Misdemeanors are fair game.)

I’ll keep it short today.  You know what they say—after a long layoff, you don’t want to jump right in with a big heavy post and maybe pull a muscle or something.  We middle-aged bloggers need to take things gradually and rebuild our bloggering tolerance.  It’s no use pretending we’re still 23 or 24, when we could just fall out of bed one morning after a three-week hiatus and blog a few thousand words before breakfast.  Ah, those were the days.

So?  Did anything happen while I was gone?  Sloppy and opportunistic right-wing “reports” on the corruption of the universities?  Riots in Kabul?  Marines in Haditha?  Bold new literary theories that tell us to pay attention to what the author meant?  Bold new law-professor theories about how art is inherently conservative?  Bold new conservative readings of Lolita?  Has anyone heard any news about Fafblog?  Maybe some 5-4 Supreme Court decisions chilling the speech of government employees?  How about that Greg Easterbrook?  Did he write anything about how the very teeniest tiniest particle in the atom just may be the Holy Spirit, and how “science” dogmatically ignores people who are doing the important research into how the universe is held together by infinitestimally tiny “trinitrons”? 

Or, as I suspect, have things been pretty quiet around here lately?  Let me know what’s on your minds.  I missed you all, you know.

I’ll be back tomorrow with a brand-new Arbitrary But Fun Friday in which we debate the competing claims of the politics of recognition and the politics of redistribution!  Stick around!  It’ll be arbitrary—but fun!

Posted by Michael on 06/01 at 11:49 AM
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