Blogging has been very light at Freespace since July thanks to an unusually large workload and some family turmoil. My grandmother's death and funeral required some traveling and away time, as did a couple other rather severe personal matters. Then there's my writing: I've agreed to write two law review articles before November, plus a book chapter by December, and a long article for Liberty (which is now finished and should appear shortly). I've been devoting what spare time I have to research for a book I'm writing, but this is scanty because my cases have been keeping me busy. I have six briefs due in September (three of which, all U.S. Supreme Court briefs, are now done, thank God). Plus I'm speaking at Michigan State University, the University of Wisconsin, and McGeorge law schools, and a few other groups.
I'm hopeful that things will calm down enough in October to allow more in depth blogging to resume but for now my moments of relaxation are being dominated by Max Hastings' book Armageddon, a brilliantly written history of Germany's defeat in World War II--chapter four is one of the finest masterpieces of historiography I have ever encountered--and by my recently revived interest in poetry, something for which I wish I had more time. (I recently finished Camille Paglia's Break, Blow, Burn, which I enjoyed immensely.)
All this is in the way of saying not only that I'm sorry about the light blogging but that if you sent me an email recently which I've failed to answer, it might be best to resend it or remind me, because I'm also delinquent on that front.
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