ANDREW SULLIVAN quotes Michael Oakeshott: “I’ve always thought that the need to know the news every day is a nervous disorder.”

Yeah, and I have to say, that goes right to the core of what’s hard about blogging: you have to pay attention to the news. I’ve always been a news-junkie, but before InstaPundit I tuned it out sometimes. I did that this weekend, too, and I have to say I enjoyed it. It’s not so much the thinking or the writing that’s the strain. I’d be doing those anyway. It’s the constant exposure to news with all its (real or hyped) stress and gloom.