A bit more house keeping

My apologies for the previous post. I think I was trying to squeeze three or four posts into one. I would have loved to have posted a 2,000 word essay like I wrote on my previous (and now non-existent) blog. I realised after getting almost half way there that this was what I was doing and ended it abruptly. I think there will be another medium for my more long-winded pieces.

This is what happens when I don't post as regularly as it should.

I do, however, have a problem and that is striking the balance between analysis and commentary. I want to delve deep into these issues but I want to keep it bite-size. In an ideal world I'll use old posts containing old ideas to frame new ones - that is after all how anyone gets their head around anything.

My goal is produce something that falls somewhere between MSNBC's First Read and Five Thirty Eight when it comes to pith. I think I fell a little outside of that range. I will try and aim for my posts to be a little bit punchier in future.