Alas, my poor, neglected blog! If you went by what was here you might easily get the impression that I am fickle and have trouble with commitments. Neither is true. But my life has been all awhirl with turbulent trials and stresses (”…full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”) and I’ve not had the wherewithal to work on much of anything. I’ve been posting a bit to my Posterous blog, but even that has been rather minimalistic in practice.

I continue to keep an eye on what’s happening in Iran, Iraq, and the world in general. I’d love to post my thoughts on this or that unfolding story, but it would be pathetically redundant for me to do so; there’s enough coverage and I have nothing new or unique to add to it.

I am now reading Walter Kaufmann’s From Shakespeare to Existentialism: Studies in Poetry, Religion, and Philosophy, having finished his Critique of Religion and Philosophy. I have bookmarked a number of sections in the latter work for when I get the time to return to my project. I have been thinking a lot about the work and the ideas Kaufmann so expertly gets across, and I have a lot of ideas. Getting those ideas into a post, polishing them, rewriting them if they seem the slightest bit unclear, is simultaneously easy and dreadfully difficult. That said, I have no intention of abandoning my project. Just give me time!

Finally, in general blog news, I have noticed of late a suspicious type of commenter has been visiting. On checking out the profiles of three of these commenters, I discovered that they each use the exact same comment every time, thus rendering the value of their comments null and completely suspect. I have decided that I am going to delete such comments and treat them as spam. They seem like a test run on my comment settings, a harbinger of spam to come, and I don’t like it one bit. One person doing it?—I could live with that. But three apparently different people posting cookie-cutter responses to my posts? I can’t trust anyone doing that to be on the straight and level. Sorry. Or not.

Anyway, I have shared quite enough. No? Well, more later in any case.

[This post was updated on Aug. 8th for clarity's sake.]