If you can’t say anything nice …

In truth, I can’t recall my mother ever saying that, but it applies to my blog lately. Once we have a Democratic nominee, my partisan juices start flowing and it becomes dispositionally impossible for me to say anything bad about him (or her, as the case may someday be).

So I’ve been largely silent for the past couple of weeks. (For a measure of my true feelings toward John Kerry, qua candidate, simply click on some of my entries from last winter and spring.)