If I Were Still a Blogger I'd . . .

wish my blogson a Happy Blogiversary;

go to the Blogarama at Kalorama on Thursday, July 29;

finally get around to updating the sidebar, adding a bunch of fine folks to the New Crew section, shipping the old New Crew links off to their permanent homes and updating and cleaning throughout;

add a full-text XML feed, as requested by reader William Leuchtenberg way back in March;

wonder what Virginia Postrel, with her nose for the vagaries of libertarian fashion, thinks of (repeated!) "libertarian" expressions of support for a presidential run by Hillary Clinton of all people. Can you beat that for attempted Bad Boy frisson?

Now, as it happens, I've done or will do all these things, whatever that means.

Pro-America, Pro-Martha, Anti-War? - Matthew Barganier identifies my demographic.

Mailbag - RGB Bill Dowling writes

Is it just me or have their been no unqualified offerings since July 11th?

No Bill, it's not just you. I've been keeping quiet about the news because I don't want to queer my Vegas act. Also, after two years of assuming that blogger burnout was something that happened to other people, I discovered I was wrong. If I were blogging, I'd note how . . . touching it is, in its way, that the New Republic believes it would be just perfect if Iyad Allawi were the sort of person who thinks like a New Republic contributor, and how maybe, just maby, he does. I'd wonder what's up with Iraq's somewhat-less-mass -than-advertised graves (thanks to reader Eric Mauro); I'd agitate for war against Iran or whoever was behind 9/11 this month; and, for sure, I'd be writing stuff every bit as good as Will Wilkinson is turning out for the redesigned Fly Bottle, oh yes. I probably wouldn't have written about Eightball #23 yet because I don't know what I think about it yet.

Anyway, while we've all fallen into an alternate universe where Patrick Nielsen Hayden blogs and I don't, that's a glimpse of what things look like back on Earth Prime. Who, really, would choose to return?