The Ebb And Flow Of This Blog

I'd like to make a post once a week.  But, I find that to be impossible.  I'm an inveterate writer of letters to newspaper editors.  It takes from one's time but provides considerable satisfaction.

The NY Times provides so much grist for the letter writer.  I could easily devote all my days to addressing it.  Their articles, most especially on subjects having to do with Israel, are generally so biased, it inclines me to utter profanities.  Better to send a letter.  Their Op-Ed pieces too often feature writers with a strong dislikes of Israel.  Another letter.

But, I must confess that the NY Times has never published one of my letters -- least ways, not that I can recall.  So why keep writing?  True, writing them gives me some satisfaction.  But, looking beyond myself, there is that chance that someone at the NY Times actually reads the stuff I send them.  It's a remote possibility,  but I can hope.

I wonder.  Does this reader of mail at the Times, should he, or she, exist, enjoy my letters?  Is the reader at all taken by my arguments?   I'll never know.

And, perhaps an even more remote possibility: does the reader at the NY Times ever send my letters up the line?  Have any of my letters actually actually reached the editor?  Were that to have ever happened,  I know what his verdict would be -- not fit to print.

And, so, I share my writings with my friends, who think as I do.  We have a beer, or a glass of wine and forecast the imminent demise of that once noble publication, the New York Times.

I also write letters to The Jewish Week.  And, there, a number of my letters have been published.  But, then, unlike the NY Times, we're now speaking of a Jewish paper.  They may lean left.  Still,  I find they try much harder to be fair and balanced.  Not as fair and balanced as Fox News.  More like "Morning Joe."  Regrettably, that show has recently become less balanced.  But, then, why worry about them.  Their viewership ratings are going down.

Finally, there are the letters I send to universities that rescind honors to worthy speakers or disallow speakers like Ayaan Hirsi Alli o address their students.  Then too there is the BBC, and other foreign media.  I wonder what they think of my letters.  But, of course, I should not even expect to know.  They speak an entirely different language.

But, despite readers of my letters keeping themselves hidden from my view,  I love thinking of how my opinions are received.  I suspect these readers, or editors, or whatever they are,  number somewhat greater than those who read my blog.  But, none of it matters.  I'm having fun.