I hope that after, say, nine months, I'll return to blogging full-steam with perhaps a new direction or approach to refresh the material. A little distance from the blogosphere might be helpful in that as well.A gay libertarian and a(mostly) supporter of the war in Iraq, his honest critique of the right and the left on the war was worth a daily read, but his shrill (almost totalitarian) support for gay marriage and gay rights were as extreme as any position he would impute to his critics. Still, he does provoke the question, what do we do with seriously committed homosexual couples? I suspect his television appearances and his political impact will increase even as he leaves the most effective tool he had behind. Instead of daily written combat with his critics he now has a freedom of action with the luxury of more time.
Perhaps this is why Christopher Hitchens never started a blog.
John Podhoretz writes more at The Corner:
Sullivan was a pioneer in the creation of what be called the personal editorial page--and found his voice, his audience and his momentum from his passionate response to the September 11 attacks. But something began to go awry with Sullivan in the wake of the Iraq war, when the postwar difficulties really threw him for a loop.I would trace it back to the President's decision to support amending the Constitution to prevent gay marriage, something that seemed to have taken Sullivan by surprise.
