This blog didn't last too terribly long in its incarnation as "Enough", despite the catchy title. I think that the real problem is that it was ill-conceived from the get-go. I pictured it following the same format as Atrios and Daily Kos and these other political blogs that more or less update on news every day as it happened. But the problem with that is twofold: first, it creates pressure to update frequently--pressure I don't need. Second, it makes creativity difficult. This latter issue is more severe for me; such a high percentage of my news intake comes from blogs now that it was increasingly difficult for me to avoid regurgitating whatever was said elsewhere. Hence, the end of Enough.

However, I still feel passionately about politics and believe in my endeavor of separating political writing from non-political writing, which I do over on Hyperbole Online.

So I took a month off and gave it a lot of thought. And I realized that what I really like to do is start an argument. Or at least make arguments. Pseudo-news reporting didn't really give me that opportunity. But I think I have it right, finally.

Speaking Truth To Power will tackle a topic, roughly on a weekly basis. There may only be a couple of posts on it, sometimes more, sometimes less. I'll try and get to the heart of these topics, addressing the arguments on both sides. I'll probably focus mostly on topics that I consider to be relatively one-sided, argumentatively speaking, even if they are controversial. My writing will probably be relatively non-partisan, in that the topics that I'm thinking about are largely linked by failure on both sides of the political aisle. For instance, in the first few weeks I'll be writing about the death penalty, the war on drugs, global warming, sex education and some foreign policy concerns like the war on terror. I've written about many of these before, though none in the depth I hope to achieve, but in any case if you've been reading my blog(s) for a while then you may end up seeing some repeat arguments/examples.

This is an evolving project, and I fully admit that I picked the title of the blog and then tried to figure out how to fit the content to the title. I think the expression "Speaking Truth To Power" is one of the finer contributions of political radicalism, and while I'm no radical, I'll happily appropriate the phraseology.

I'll take topic suggestions where you have them, with the understanding that I'll gleefully reject some of them.

Look for a full-on start here on Tuesday.


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