I started this blog partly because I wanted a public record of my positions on issues that I could look back on later and embarrass myself with. The end of the year is a great time to look over the past year's posts and see how much I can already recognize as embarrassing, ill-considered, stupid, or tactless. Alas, I'm too lazy to do that, and I would be lying if I said that I'll try to be better next year. Although I intend to continue blogging, one of my resolutions this year is to spend less time blogging, and a year-end retrospective would hardly be a good way to kick that effort off.
Off the top of my head, I can only think of one post I wrote this year which consistently gives me a headache whenever I think about it, this graceless post about Norm Geras, who deserves more respect than I paid him in the post. So, sorry Norm.
I'm sure I could find other things to cringe about, but as I said, I'm too lazy. Feel free to nominate posts in the comments section.
Posted by Chris at December 31, 2004 03:46 PM