My five loyal readers may have noticed I’m not keeping up. I want you to know I have not burned out or quit. Instead, I’m more deeply committed to writing than ever. So much so, in fact, that I am writing a book and — I’m not looking for sympathy here — under a schedule that gives wiser writers pause. I have 8 weeks to produce 400 pages that read as if I didn’t just have cranking out pages as my task.

I’ll tell you much more about the project and the process, if only you will come back. To make things easier for all of us, here’s my plan. I will post something on this blog every Sunday. Please come back in a few days.

In the meantime, I’ve been dying to say that Mel Gibson is absolutely an anti-Semite but that’s OK (to some) because he is not an “Islamofascist.” I think Eugene Robinson expressed my sentiments very well. Perhaps someone will post a link to his piece (www.washingtonpost.com) from a week or more ago in a comment. However, let me say that the world is full of anti-Semites and bigotry is humanity. I may be a bigot for not being surprised that someone of Gibson’s religious training is an anti-Semite. mjh