Blogging notes

Over the last couple of weeks I've had a major surge of troll comments (you aren't seeing them because of the comment moderation).  So perhaps it's time to post a more prominent reminder about reading the comments policy, since people who come here aiming to pick fights seldom seem to do so.  It also wouldn't hurt to read this.

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I'll be cutting back quite a bit on reading the specifically political blogosphere, at least for a while.  Brexit-bashing has been getting pervasive, and I'm tired of feeling under attack in what had seemed like friendly territory.  And the usual Democratic miasma of attacks on our own side has lately reached toxic levels, with venom and insults hurled at any Democratic leader whose judgment or program deviate too much from those of the writer, especially Biden and (until a few days ago) Pelosi.  It's wearisome and depressing to read.  For the sake of the party and the country, I just hope everybody gets that stuff out of their system before it's time to unify behind our nominee next year.

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I'm going to stop capitalizing titles like "president" and "senator" when they aren't used attributively right before a person's name, as well as some words like "constitution" which I've gotten into the habit of capitalizing even though they aren't "proper names" in a grammatical sense.  It's unnecessary, and excessive use of capital letters is often the mark of a less-educated and/or insecure writer.  I doubt more than one reader in a hundred will notice, but I thought I should say something in case that one in a hundred is curious.