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Friday, March 9, 2007

Is this funny only to me?

Ezra Klein late yesterday broke down the fourth wall, as it were, of the enterprise known as blogging. He's done it before, and he's good at it. There it is, in the middle of cogent and quickly delivered poltical commentary and barb-exchanging: a cri de coeur about what we're all doing, anyway:

So why is it that, even though it's been a busy day, I feel guilty for only putting up three blog posts (and two at Tapped!)? How unhealthily addicted am I to this thing? And why do I care what you people think? You're not even real people, you're internet people!
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