Stealing my title from Sean’s recent post… the past couple of weeks have been an impressive example of exactly the reasons that I never wanted to commit to blogging and simultaneously of a world that just begs to be written about. A combination of various work commitments (a small conference last week, lots of students, papers, a few real deadlines, combined with the impending onset of job season) have just flattened me the past few weeks, and I’ve been conciously trying to stay away from the blog and the news more than usual. But what news it’s been! A modern-day Scopes monkey trial, a massive and deadly earthquake, a new Supreme court nomination that has the right tearing each other to peices, two indictments of the House Majority Leader, a supoena to the Senate Majority Leader, rumored indictments to both the president’s and the vice-president’s right hand men in the Plame investigation (with hints that the investigation may be going deep into the lies leading up the Iraq war), Judy Miller released from jail and getting nature poetry from Scooter Libby, the first legalization of gay marriage passed by both houses of a state legislature and then promptly vetoed, bird flu spreading to Europe, a vaccine for the Human Papiloma Virus found to be 100% effective, all-time low approval ratings for the president, with approval among blacks that is statistically consistent with zero, 4000 year old noodles unearthed in China, polar ice caps at a record low, and of course, several new ipods introduced.

Anyways, hope to be a bit more present here, but I expect that there will unfortunatly be many more weeks like the past few in the next few months (in my schedule at least, probably not in the number of indictments handed out to top members of the government), so I apologize in advance, and thank my co-bloggers for picking up the slack.