home again

After crashing my truck into a tree, breaking my right wrist - I am right handed - and being mysteriously locked out of my blog for some time, I am glad to be back again.

Fascinating article in the current New Yorker about blogs and professional journalism. I agree with the writer that blogs are not journalism, which is why I like them and think they are valuable. I generally bristle at the trash on Drudge, but I like it that they sponsor themselves as a gossip site rather than a news site. That is, they hear something and pass it along and it is up to the reader to decide whether it is true or not.

I have many observations to make about living with pain and becoming dependent after my accident. Both are conditions I would never have chosen and am eager to be rid of, but like most pain this is a master teacher.
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