I owe my deepest thanks to several hundred people who, despite my lackadaisical approach to this political and social blog have continued to check in on it from time to time every month, apparently to see if, perhaps, I’ve quit messing around and gotten back to work. It’s humbling to see that, even though I consistently disappoint, a handful of people—actually a couple of handfuls—per day are dropping by, even when weeks or months pass without my uttering a syllable. I figure they are either going back and checking out old entries they might have missed, or, perhaps, they are simply keeping the faith by sticking their proverbial head in the door, seeing the lights are still out, and quietly leaving.
Again, my humblest of apologies.
That said, whether they love or hate what I write (few
are indifferent) about the contemporary political and social scene, trying to
provide an independent viewpoint beyond partisan lines, they are consistent in
their apparent desire for me to keep covering these subjects because if not,
the hits this “other blog” of mine gets would dwindle to zero, and that simply
doesn’t happen. Ever.
Why? Because they are right to keep coming back in
that I never seem to be able to kick the news habit I acquired in twenty years
of professional journalism, when I was a much younger man. And like so many
other addicts, no matter how old I get, I eventually fall off the wagon and
start editorializing again. I seem unable to help it. It’s like an itch I can
never completely scratch, and never quite reach.
So, in the end, there’s nothing for it—no matter how
much I might want to bury my press card forever and devote myself entirely to
my “normal” literary efforts and to my Southern
Yankee blog southernyankeewriter.blogspot.com—but to admit that I’ll always
be stimulated by current events. And worse still—and to the chagrin of many—I’ll
never be able to just shut-up and keep my opinions and observations to myself.
It’s an itch way more powerful than I am. So stay
tuned. As the Terminator might say, I’ll be back.
