Barns and Ignobles

A reader and close friend suggests that critique of the Democratic Party is "like throwing rocks at a barn" these days, and my blogging efforts more rightly belong with other topics.

To be clear, it's not the Democratic Party necessarily that fails to impress. It's the leaning of both parties towards an radicalized base on certain issues. Social matters and culture war reflexively cause the Republicans to cede far too much influence to the knuckle-dragging clinic bombers, while foreign policy tends to make Democrats assume the rump-forward position, as if the alternative to Donald Rumsfeld is the Brown University English Department.

I'll pass on both, thanks. But practically speaking I can't always qualify my political musings and stick an elbow in every direction. I try to keep it short and snappy, and usually this results in making everyone annoyed, equal time, sooner or later.

Having said all of that, I am weary of politics. I would much rather be writing about people, experiences, and curious aspects of American society. Lately even applied Catholicism and compassion seem like a better subject. But as an editorial matter I don't understand if people have any interest in reading those topics on a weblog.