Back to Work

Writing again after an unexpectedly long hiatus.  Blame the day job.  No.  That's not true.  Blame the wingnuts.  Yes, they are demoralizing.  But, more importantly, they keep changing the landscape faster that I -- who writes slowly -- can keep up.  Call it the inverse dichotomy paradox.  The original Aristotlean paradox says that no one can reach a destination because first, you must get half-way there, then half of the half, and so on, with each increment half of the one before which, a couple of thousand years before Newton, seemed like a genuine constraint.  The inverse case has nutters moving twice as far from reality with each new step.  Try to respond cogently to one piece of conservative nonsense and, by the time I am ready to hit the "Publish" button, my writing is now off-target from the newest craziness.  Think of whack-a-mole played against mutant vermin that grow and grow and grow.