Crazy how nature does that…
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You haven’t a clue what I’ve learned about those topics, so stop making assumptions about it. I’ve actually read a fair amount about several of the things you have been trying to write about in many of your comments on this blog, and I have come to my own conclusions about them.

What’s more, I have no problem with anyone learning any of it, if that’s their interest. But—as I’ve written many times here—I am not turning my blog into a discussion group for those things, and comment after comment from you or anyone else about them isn’t something I want to have on the blog. But you don’t see me trying to stop anyone from going to any site that deals with those things and learning about them.

There are plenty of other topics I don’t write about, and plenty of things I’m not about to turn my blog into a forum for. You and everyone else are free to discuss them as much as you want elsewhere. I would not advocate stopping you from doing so.

We all have different interests. This blog is a forum for what I’m interested in. I write about what I’m interested in, and I certainly never claimed to be equally interested in everything. I am not. Nor do I find everything equally valid. I do not.

There are certain topics you don’t want to learn about nor do you want anyone else to learn about, Neo. An interesting personal blind area of yours.

Wow, that sounds like a nightmare to me. I’m glad it didn’t upset you too much. It would upset me greatly. I like the process, but I’m also interested in the product.

A few years back I was contacted by one of the people I “deeded” my blog to; there had been some sort of incident during a WordPress upgrade and all the history had vanished. Since I’m somewhat tech savvy he asked if I could take a look and see if anything could be salvaged. I was very busy at the time, and told him I’d try in a few weeks. It’s quite a thing. I probably had 2,000 – 4,000 posts on the site, many of them thousands of words long. After a few days thought I decided I didn’t want to resurrect them. I went to the Way back machine and downloaded 2, one I will share with my daughter some day, and a second about running.

It’s likely that will be my only foray into writing for an audience and looking back on it I was surprised to learn that the content itself wasn’t important to me. I benefitted from the process of expounding daily on current events, and my opinions had matured and that’s really what mattered.

Blogs get very big very fast. I believe if you did that, the document would be unwieldy.

The articles of mine that appeared at PJ and WS were actually Word documents to begin with, although they’re on an old computer. I still have them somewhere.

On the few occasions I have thought about running my own blog, I decided that all of my posts would be written in a document & saved before being posted.
To all you folks that DO blog: Is that a workable system, or is there a down-side I probably haven’t thought of?

Thanks very much!

However, I did write for PJ (and they paid me, although of course not a ton) for 9 years. I wrote about 90 articles there, I think, or something like that. However, they re-organized a few years ago and stopped wanting my pieces. It also has become difficult to access my old articles there. Here’s one that came up just now in a search, but although they used to have them all indexed under my name—first under “neo-neocon” and then later ones under “Jean Kaufman”—that index doesn’t seem to be operating any more.
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What I really should do is find them all and put up something with links to them all. That’s a lot of work, though, and not my top priority right now.

I also wrote for the online version of the Weekly Standard, although not nearly as often. Just now, trying to access them, I discovered they are gone (although I saved them a while back and they’re somewhere on my hard drive). However, curiously enough, they are now on a page at the Washington Examiner. How odd! They were originally written for the Weekly Standard. I can’t figure that one out, but I’m glad they exist somewhere.

Here’s the link to the articles at the Washington Examiner.