Scraping Off the Rust

I was listening to talk radio the other day. I can't even remember which show it was, but something was said that caught my attention. The speaker said that, while the Right has got talk radio and (to some extent) Fox News and the Right side of the blogosphere, this is a long-haul thing. This is something I've alluded to here, when speaking about the cockroach resilience of the Left - they that scatter, mumbling about "repression" and "free speech" when hit with the light of truth and fact, but who come back out once the light has passed, and continue on unscathed and unrepentant.

This person, either an interview subject or a caller, I can't remember, likened the job to that of keeping the rust on a ship at bay. It's a job that requires constant labor; sanding, scraping, painting, in order to maintain the ship. If we stop, the rust eventually wins. Well, I've been taking a break, at least from the blogosphere end of it. Since I started blogging three years ago, many others have joined their voices, added their scrapers, sanding blocks and paintbrushes to the job. But the force of corrosion haven't slacked off any, nor do I expect them to. We've discussed before the "true believer," and the opposition is, if nothing else, true believers.

Anyway, I just wanted to post this note to let you know that, even though I'm not posting much, I'm not quitting either. I've been spending my downtime (what there is of it) reading and thinking. I've been spending quite a bit of time reading up on the philosophers Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. I'm trying to finish David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed, and I have two more books lined up after it, Victor Davis Hanson's Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the past Still Determine how We Fight, how We Live, and how We Think, and Gordon S. Wood's Revolutionary Characters: What Made The Founders Different. I'm going to have to order a copy of James Bowman's Honor: A History because my local Barnes & Noble doesn't carry it. Before too much longer, I'll start writing again. For those of you hanging in there, checking in periodically: Thanks. I appreciate it.

I'll be back.