One of the more annoying things about the form and structure of my blogging habit is that I repeatedly forget to follow up on posts I've made on the past and often neglect to continue a theme or series I've started. I'm just too haphazard about it. The perfect example is my "Hightower Retort" (See: Hightower Needs Some Perspective, The Hightower Retort 11/8/2002, Bringing Back The Hightower Retort, Hightower Retort - 9/26/2003, and Hightower Retort - 10/3/2003). Once I move in to my house and get set up with broadband Net access, I emphatically plan to make that a regular feature.

But more importantly, I want to take the time to face The Austin Chronicle. I've always known it to be the largest single voice for lefty collectivist (and now and then accurately "liberal") issues in the central Texas area. Surprise wasn't on the list of emotions I felt while reading the paper's endorsements and the commentary of its individual writers regarding current events; like most ideologues, these are predictable people. But after reading the current issue, I was so jarred by the outright contradictions in the political writing that my mind has been changed. I will not let this elephant in Travis County's living room go without remark.

I love the Chronicle for its superb coverage of the local arts, music, and community scenes. The advertising within is a directory of the most interesting businesses in the city. But the politics the paper's editors either endorse or advocate are at least as ugly as the other politics I discuss occurring on a national scale.

I'm scheduled to close my house deal next Friday and it would be absurd to think I'll be blogging from home 24, 120, or 240 hours later. However, I think it is time I extended my opposition to the local clearinghouse of the kind of politics I despise.