Back on the blog

It's been seven months since I gave up daily blogging, and while my time away from it has been productive and restorative, the itch to get back to it has gotten stronger lately. Maybe it's because I managed to get a lot of readership with little effort over the past few weeks. It seems the less I write, the more people read. 

My post about boycotting KATU advertisers brought in a few thousand eyeballs, and just yesterday my post about Paul Caron and the shutdown of his TaxProf Blog was quoted in Tax Notes, the country's most influential news source regarding tax law. Writers crave attention, and when they get it, they just want more.

There was also a moment a couple of weeks ago, when in an email exchange with a long-time friend, I bemoaned the fact that we boomers had really screwed up the country and the world. My buddy shot right back that he had nothing to apologize to anyone for, because he was still busy advocating for better. That guy is relentless, I thought to myself. Whereas, let's face it, I haven't been. And this era seems like a particularly bad time to be minding one's own business.

Not that writing about the condition of our current place in the universe is going to be any less depressing now than it was back in March when I declared the hiatus. What's happening to our federal government is the stuff of nightmares, with a new horror every day, and some days another outrage every hour. Meanwhile, the doings of the pinheads running Portland and Oregon are not much better – atrocious in the exact opposite direction. Everywhere you look, it's painful even to watch, much less to chronicle.

But if there are readers for them, I have have things to say. Thank the Lord, my eyes and ears and fingers still work, not great but okay. And so it's time to wade back in. To start with a goal of quality over quantity, and to see where that leads. With any luck, some good will come out of it.