Tomorrow I’m planning on posting that Flight 93 discussion
Sometimes I just get overbooked. I’ve got my piece on that viral Flight 93 essay half written, but there are other things I need to do right now.
Including a few frivolous ones.
I plan to post it tomorrow. Right now it’s in my voluminous drafts folder, where much of my greatest wisdom resides 🙂 :
It turns out that I’m a hoarder of post drafts. I didn’t see this coming””it developed slowly, over many years. Although blogging is not up there with digging ditches in terms of labor, churning out several blog posts a day is nevertheless work. It can be a challenge, but for most bloggers””who usually suffer from or are blessed with a hefty dose of ideophoria””getting ideas for enough posts is not a problem. More often, the problem is getting too many ideas and becoming scattered, or in my case researching posts and writing half of them but then putting them on hold because they become too unwieldy. I assume I’ll go back and finish them later on, but then new events happen, new thoughts come, new articles beckon, and the old ones pile up in a drafts folder that grows and grows and grows.
The upshot is that my old blog has about 150 old drafts still on it, some long and almost finished, and some short and mere sketches of an idea. The other day I noticed that the number of drafts on this blog (which I still think of as my “new blog,” although I’ve been here since 2007) was approaching 600.
I wrote that post about two and a half years ago, and I did succeed in weeding out quite a few, enough to cut the number in half. It’s crept up again, though, to around 420. My file cabinets and closets do the same thing—creep, creep, creep, necessitating the periodic and much-needed weeding.
Actually, such files are a ‘tell’ for good writing, for which I salute you.
Looking forward to it. I’m confident it will instigate a healthy debate.
I look forward to it with great anticipation.
Do you know about the followup by the same author?
Restatement on Flight 93
http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/restatement-on-flight-93/
“I’ve got my piece on that viral Flight 93 essay half written …”
Viral? Didn’t know it had caused such a stir. Read it by backing into that site for another posting.
Looks like it caused a real sh**storm for having been posted in such an out of the way spot.
Yes, I read that, too.
DNW:
Well, viral on the right.
It does sound like your addiction to draft posts started out something like my relationship with pressure cookers. I never meant to become addicted. I just started with one, then another, and got up to nine. I’m tapering off, though, down to five.
You know what gives me hope for the future?
Slap Chop! (yes, I’ve been drinking):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA
Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnDUc63gCjI
(quite random, but I find it hilarious)
How many of the drafts are about dance or makeovers?
neo,
It is going viral on the left side too. The daft morons at crookedtimber have taken the bait.
Your writing is excellent. And I appreciate it as much when I disagree. Maybe even more so then.
Please keep blogging!
DNW Says:
Looks like it caused a real sh**storm for having been posted in such an out of the way spot.
Out of the way is where it would have remained, had not Trump supporters kept spamming links to it all over the internet.
Obama, enabled by Democrats, and by weak and cowardly Republicans, fearful of a hostile press endangering their government issue rice-bowls have brought us to this state of affairs so aptly described by Gowdy.
A state of affairs where Hillary’s crew refuses to testify before Congress; a state of affairs wherein Lois Lerner successfully shrugs and takes the Fifth to evade consequences for her crimes in office. A state of affairs where the President ignores the law, and fabricates the flimsiest pretexts for undermining the rule of law, and the FBI director edits the materials Congress demands of him.
This is a state of affairs wherein, if the present polity and our common association were worth respecting or preserving – as it presently is not – Lerner would have already been be tried, and if found guilty, sent to spend the rest of her worthless life in prison.
But she is free; and the law, and the assumption that our civil association is worth preserving as it now stands, is revealed as the joke it has become.
But “reasonable”, get-along, preserve the movement conservatives, fear Trump more than the lawless Obama and Hillary.
What they fear is their own creation; for they created him by cooperating in manufacturing the amoral environment that spawned him.
Preserve conservatism by losing now, in order to fight another day?
Puling rice-bowl Republicans … Don’t make me laugh.