Am I intellectually honest?
I used to ask myself this question on occasion. In recent weeks, I ask it with troubling regularity.
I spent a great deal of emotional, logical, and rhetorical energy during these turbulent past few months viciously criticizing the former President and the merry band of scumbags the GOP has become.
Now, we have a new administration. I wonder why I do not feel the need to criticize it. Surely, they have advocated for and enacted policies that I disagree with.
But perhaps, I overestimate the logical and rhetorical components of my past criticisms. Might these blog entries have been motivated more by visceral emotion? Is the fact that I do not bear personal animus towards our new President and his administration the reason why my blog has fallen silent?
I have always considered myself to be fair-minded and rigorous in my editorial commentary. I promise to return to these values in the future.
Stay tuned.
the irked moderate 