October 18, 2006

Mailbag

A Brooklyn reader writes in via an E-mail entitled "Why the Silence?":

Dear BD- After previously writing so much about the issue of "torture", detainee treatment, Geneva Conventions etc - why have you been so silent about the recent McCain-Warner-Graham compromise with the White House? Surely you owe your readers some comments....

The short answer is yes, most assuredly, I do (though note a brief mention of my deep unhappiness with the legislation in this recent post). The longer answer, unfortunately, is that I have less and less time to spend here. As regular readers know, I have a demanding day job that takes up at minimum around 12 hours a day. Add family time, the typical madness of New York City, and varied errands and other extra-curriculars--it's extremely hard to find more than an hour (sometimes two) a day to devote to this site--at least if I mean to get any sleep. And so I grapple with the usual tension, knowing that running a top-notch site with longer pieces that are more provocative and challenging is usually impossible (at minimum I'd think this would take 3-4 hours daily, which I don't have save occasionally on weekends), but at the same time not wanting to fold down the site because I am something of a foreign policy junkie and enjoy this outlet. In short, I'm dong the best I can to put up at least somewhat interesting content, writing usually around 11PM or so on weeknights, but please excuse lack of editing (run-on sentences, spelling errors and other nits) as well as the fact that I may not have gotten around to the topics you believe merit covering in typical 'blog-time'.

Posted by Gregory at October 18, 2006 03:28 AM