Sick of Blogging

After dropping the blogging habit while I was out of town, I've had trouble getting back into it. I'm sick of reading blogs and as one can tell, sick of writing them. The last post I wrote took me a long time and I couldn't even finish my thought. It may be slower until it gets quicker again.

There are several reasons, I suppose: I don't know much or have much to say about the financial meltdown, not too many exciting movies out there, being tired of all the back and forth hating in the election, and frankly, just exhausted talking about Iraq the WOT, etc. That subject, which was one of the principal reasons I started blogging in the first place, is essentially no longer worth talking about. The split of pro-war/anti-war with respect to Iraq has not calmed or been reconciled whatsoever. The two sides can only talk past each other to this day...the anti-war refusing to believe anything other than Iraq-as-catastrophic-failure narrative and unable to discuss any form of progress whatsoever and will, I suspect, never, ever accept any positive news whatsoever from the state. The anti-war side will forever find a way to compare Iraq to imaginary alternatives and Western first world standards and never concede the benefits of project - should there be any. Likewise, the pro-war side will continue to try and justify the invasion, slipping back and forth between reasons, forever citing the most recent decent news as hope. It will forever be hope, hope, hope, like the gambler who keeps doubling down with the theory that at least one of these times he must win.

You can't argue with a gambler who's dead set on winning one of these hands after having lost so many before...and you can't argue someone who's written something off from the beginning and needs failure to justify their apparent wisdom (which, incidentally, is very easy to find when it comes to states and people).

So indeed, what is the point of any further discussion on the issue? Particularly when the discussion inevitably ends up coming back around to the beginning and who was right and who was wrong to start with...

Also...my two favorite blogs, Instapundit and Andrew Sullivan are boring me. Instapundit used to be a calm voice of reason and has since become somewhat of a Republican shill. Andrew Sullivan, always a tad hyper, seems to have lost any sense of reason and makes outrageous passionate claims almost each and every day. It's like listening someone yelling at the top of their voice at all times and frankly, it's just become tiresome.

Quote: "It's very important for people to realize that the McCain-Palin ticket is explicitly running on war against Iran. If McCain-Palin is elected, there will be war. If Obama-Biden is elected, there is a tiny chance there won't be."

You see. Jesus.