Reply #13: Sometimes its just a voice from the fog, sometimes not.

[ThomWV]

Usually an idea will float in my head for a couple of days before a post comes from it and usually the post you see is not the first one I've written - and deleted. I probably write 5~7 posts for every one that I hit the "Post Message" button for. Either I can not find the words to say what I mean or I realize that I'm about to say something for which there is no foundation - something that requires further reading before I for forward or abandon the post. For instance a couple of days ago I read about 300 pages of the testimony of Miers and Rove just to make sure what I was saying was true in a couple of posts. Last night I spent about 5 hours reading up on the history of the German religions and the relationship between the Calvinists and Lutherans, between the Renaissance and the Reformation - and the reading has left me with a void in my thinking but it also canceled a post I had in mind.

Then there are the questions. I have the bad habit of believing that if something suites me it must suit all Democrats. Now and then, pretty often really, I ask questions as a reality check. When I post these questions, often as a poll, I try my best to avoid introducing my own opinion or experience and I don't check a box myself - though I do respond to comments.

Where do they come from. Probably more often than anywhere else from comments I her from callers on Washington Journal in the morning. I listen pretty closely to callers and they are the base for a lot of my posts. I also check on a number of on-line news sources from time to time during the day so if I see something new or breaking I may post that if it hasn't got attention yet.

And then there is the last category - the morning meanness posts. Sometimes I'm just in a bad mood and it shows.