It’s not that I find politics uninteresting now. I just find that I don’t have the energy for it. Having resolved some time ago not to discuss politics at work I’ve kind of left the keeping up and the reasearch and the blogtivism (yes, I just made up a word… what of it?) to Jason and have been focusing on my more immediate world.

For this I feel a degree of shame. I was “Beyond The Near: Because Global Is Local!” I was all about caring about everything and everyone because everything affects everything else. I had to know what and why and I had to be able to argue and debate competently. Now I just avoid the subject, favoring personal diplomacy over half-hearted disclaimers. I’m trying to decide now if it’s time to start reading various news media sources again. How many plates should I be trying to spin at once?