I generally try to criticize ideas, not the people who articulate them, following the saying, "if you can't say anything good, don't say anything at all." I will, with no guilt, link to someone who does though. I've got mixed feelings about Christopher Hitchens. I thought it was great that he severed his ties to The Nation, basically for the same reasons he fisks Michael Moore so severely. I don't care for his secularist outlook, but I've been there, so maybe I'm just ahead of him on the same road.
That reluctance to criticize explains some of the quietness on this blog lately. A lot of the news has been taken up by our past President, and I'm not commenting because I haven't read his book, nor do I plan to. I will say this though: In 1998, I was a registered Democrat. In 2000, I was a registered Republican. Not to say that I've voted straight party line though. I voted Republican for for my House Representative, Chris Smith, back in 1996, along with a vote for the Democrat nominee for President.
I'm going to take some time off the blog. Just a week. We are enjoying the long days of summer, and blogging has become kindof repetitious and stale lately. Maybe I'll if something catches my eye, but otherwise I'm going to reread Lee Strobel's The Cast for a Creator and finally put up a review of it starting next week.
Go read The Dawn Patrol, a great blog by Dawn Eden, who I noticed thanks to Susan b. Lilac Rose, who also has a great blog, but she's taking a break too.
Hi Joel,
Thanks...and have a refreshing break! I'll probably start blogging again in a few days.
Posted by: susan b. at June 24, 2004 09:48 AM