I haven’t been writing anymore. The precious time I get away from work, away from those expansive trenches of digitized corporate world where I solve problems and earn my rent, is too valuable (and too scarce) to spend maintaing this site. The software that maintains it, which I wrote myself in a previous life, shows its age in its lack of flexibility; I’m trying to migrate to something that someone else uses. I’m afraid that I won’t write much here at all until after I’ve had a chance to clean up the web site as a whole. (And then, it will probably not run Python anymore.)

But I did feel this snippet was important enough to [re]publish:

Most of the arguments that have dominated baby-boom politics are rutted and irrelevant. The perpetual culture wars between Republican and Democrats, the legacy of Vietnam and racial, gender, sexual-preference and religious militancy have all become poisonous diversions from the very serious national conversation that needs to take place. We baby boomers have not proved very adept at running the show. It may well be time for a new generation of leadership.

Joe Klein, Barack Obama Isn’t Not Running for President, Time, June 5, 2006

I think he’s precisely right. This world has changed too much; the current generation of politicians, who think exclusively in terms of corporate donations and remember when computers were nerds with slide rules, just can’t keep up. We need a President who knows how to beat Super Mario Bros., because then he (or she?) might know how to rebuild an aging superpower that’s stopped teaching itself new skills.