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Thanks Vik. Old friends indeed!
Vik and I lost touch with each other years ago until I stumbled across The Big Picture a few months ago. Ain’t the internet swell?
Not surprisingly Vik and I hold similar political opinions, although I suspect I am more libertarian (that’s small “L” libertarian – please ignore the wing nuts of the Libertarian Party).
About burnout…
I have been a news and politics junkie since I was a teenager. I grew up in Washington DC and my father was a senior editor for The Wall Street Journal and another Dow Jones publication, so I’ve soaked in news and politics all my life.
Regularly, during periods of political hysteria, I would find my father sitting at the kitchen table late at night, quite drunk.
“It’s all bullsh*t,” he would mumble. “It’s all the same – over and over. The same mistakes. The same stupidity. The same bullsh*t. I can’t take it any more.”
And then he would pour himself another.
Nowadays the news/politics cycle – and the hysteria that goes with it – moves at the speed of the internet and the 24 hour news channels. Needless to say, the bullsh*t level peaks and ebbs just as fast. As I troll the news I periodically get a sense of massive system-wide burnout – an exhaustion induced by the same old stupidity, the same old mistakes, over and over. We are about to embark on the year 2006, which promises to be a brutal year in politics.
Today is Thanksgiving – the beginning of our annual cycle of Mandatory Holidays (more on this later). We all need a breather before the hysteria begins anew.
So have a nice break, Vik.
I have a major case of blogger burnout, and will be taking two weeks off from blogging.
In the meantime, I'm turning this space over to guest poster Don Bridge. Don is a good friend. He's also a former blogger whose work I enjoyed. He tells me that his articles will be very different from what I usually post. I approve whole-heartedly and look forward to reading them. Don, welcome back to the blogosphere, and have a great time posting!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Have a great holiday. And check here for Ben Franklin's account of its origin. (via Drudge).
