"Mommy, why is that blogger crying?"

My readership is small, but faithful, and your comments often cheer me up when I would otherwise feel blue.

For this reason, I am especially sad at having to make the following announcement.

Due to a mild family emergency (everything is okay now, thank goodness), I have not been able to provide you with an entry this week. I will have an entry this coming Saturday on ABC's atrocious misinfomentary "The Path to 9/11" and it will be what I like to call a Hum-Dinger. After this, I will need to take a sabbatical, a vacation, a rest.

I had hoped that I would be able to do my blog, interact with my family, teach my four composition courses, and also prepare for my Master's exams, but this is simply not possible. For this reason, I will lay down my, er, keyboard and hopefully pick it up again on or about February 15, 2007. In the meantime, I hope to provide occasional updates on persons whom I think will be reincarnated as tapeworms (e.g., John Stossel, David Horowitz) as well as issues which are important to me (e.g., preventing radical conservatives from co-opting Christianity for free-market-fundamentalist purposes). These entries will, however, not be as regular or as dense as they have been in the past. Furthermore, checking this blog monthly, instead of weekly, should be quite sufficient to avoid missing any exciting new developments.

I'll see you this Saturday for one last orgy of information, and after that, I leave you in the capable hands of other bloggers. Don't cry, children! It's only for a couple of months! I have two testicles, and I only need one of them! He ain't heavy, he's my brother! Win one for the Gipper! Run, Forrest, run! Bwaa-hoo-hoo-hoooooooo! (Yes, that's what I sound like when I cry. Awful, isn't it?)

Hope everyone else's semesters are just as hectic as mine, if not worse. Peace.


Daniel Dickson-LaPrade
The Sad Blogger