The Columnist Manifesto

I've made a major format change to my blog... you've probably noticed. The "description" or subtitle of my blog. From the beginning, it was "Critical thinking about law, society, politics, things in general, and the New York Mets." My post yesterday made me self-reflective, however, and I have to admit that since the election there has been very little in the way of critical thinking on these pages.

My new description reflects a way of life that I could say a lot more about, and probably will soon. But right now I'm at a party, and several people are talking at once, trying to make themselves heard over the karaoke machine.

I will say for now that (1) my current goal is to average 50 hits a day; and (2) when I said this at the party, another partygoer said "I used to think 40 hits a day was good, but now I think 4,000 is inadequate."