Well, this is too bad. Don Surber quit blogging. He’ll continue writing columns, but as he explained in his final blog post, he’s exhausted. “Blogging was something extra. I loved blogging because I came in contact with readers directly. But over the past few months I realized I cannot continue doing both. I ain’t Superman.”
Now that I’m only working outside the home two days a week, I spend a lot more time in my home office on weekdays. For some reason, Surber’s blog showed up on the list of my most frequently visited sites on the desktop, but not on the laptop I use the rest of the time. Friday I had a lot of running around to do, so I didn’t realize he had quit until I saw the news at The Other McCain. Apparently, blogger burnout is going around. Pat Austen noted some other conservative bloggers who have succumbed to the condition. (Don’t worry, Instapundit is not one of them.)
I can see why people would quit. I’ve thought about it at times. It’s a lot of work for little money. But I like blogging and we have a big election coming up, so I’ll keep doing it. Who knows, maybe the next time we take a vacation I’ll actually take a vacation and leave the laptop behind. Yeah, I probably won’t. Heh.
I never get to everything I want to in a day, but I figure you can visit the links in the sidebar or check the Today’s Headlines page, and will be brought up to speed in no time.
Speaking of blogging and busy schedules, both of my boys play baseball and they’re on different teams, so if you start to notice fewer blog posts than usual you’ll know why.
Anyway, it’s a bummer that Surber quit, but understandable. He’ll be missed.
Conservative political bloggers are so under-appreciated. It’s got to be hard to fight for attention amidst the sea of loud liberal voices. I think the tougher road for conservative bloggers is to get liberals to take them seriously, to see them as a platform worthy of commenting. Conservative bloggers for the most part get conservative readers while liberal ones tend to get both, the conservatives who like to tease, taunt, and rile up with the liberals, but it doesn’t seem to be a vice-versa - but that could be because liberal have ZERO sense of humor.
I’m a political junkie so I visit and read all sorts of blogs. It’s a form I adore, the immediate conversation that takes place is hard to top, so even though I didn’t read Don’s blog, nor Andy’s, here’s hoping YOU stay. We Conservative New Yorkers who are also Phillies fans have to stick together.
Thanks. We had quite a few liberals leaving comments here but most got so out of control they had to be banned.
the loud liberal voices are probably getting paid for blogging - by Soros or his pals. It might not be much, but they probably don’t end up on the street.
I’m bummed. Don was one of my regular stops.
As an observer, I think it was this blog that got out of control with labeling all the left as communist and then calling on a return of Nixon to shoot them down.
But you are a commie, Joe. Nixon has been dead for years and as far as shooting goes, just keep voting progressive / statist and your elected leaders will take care of that for you with pleasure; as they have been historically doing for decades.