Things That Google Alerts Me To

I find this criticism to be rather odd. The reason why I occasionally talk about why I'm not talking about something is because if there's some major event going on, and I don't have anything to say about it, commenters and emailers see something conspiratorial or sinister in it when it's just the case that I'm doing my best not to add to the pile of uninformed commentary on the subject. You can turn to whatever Sunday show John McCain will be on tomorrow for that. More than that, I don't actually talk about foreign policy issues very often. Sure I spent a lot of time on the Iraq issue, but I hardly ever wrote anything about Iraq because I never claimed to know a damn thing about Iraq. What I did write about was the fact that a bunch of lying madmen, aided by our obsequious press, were taking us into war on false pretenses and a lot of people were going to die for reasons we still haven't quite figured out (Cue people emailing me with the word oil in the subject. Yes, oil, but not just oil.). I'm never proud of being insufficiently knowledgeable about a subject, but I can't know everything and sometimes my attentions are elsewhere.