A new feature that I’m introducing today, and may be repeatedly daily, weekly or may never be repeated again, is the reader mailbag.  This consists of emails I’ve received or wanted to receive, and feel like posting about.  If you have questions for the Reader Mailbag, feel free to send them.  Whether or not I respond depends entirely on my mood at any given time.

And now, for our inaugural email:

Greenfield,

Why do you write so much?  I can’t keep up with it because I have a life.  Have you ever considered getting one?

Very nice thing to write to me.  I can’t wait to get a call to get your butt out of the lockup after one of your drunken Federalist bacchanalias.

Here’s the deal.  I post between 0 and 6 pieces a day.  Some days, it’s a struggle.  Most, I could write about a dozen posts and still have more to say.  My problem is that I like to write and do so relatively quickly.  I spend about an hour a day on this blawg, and since I wake up in the middle of the night (as I have for years) and there’s nothing much else to do, this seemed as good a way to spend my time as any.

Before this blawg, I used to ghost write editorials, op-eds and letters to the editor for a number of organizations and individuals who wants to appear to have something meaningful to say but lacked either the mind or the hand to make it happen.  Since I can crank these things out, and have the occasional viewpoint that might be of interest to others, it was a natural for me.

I grant you that I post more than most other blawgs, including those groups blawgs that take 10 lawprofs to get a handful of posts out a day.  Sorry.  If it’s too much, then don’t read it.  What else can I do?  Just scroll down on my front page and see what, if anything interests you.  But I have a hard enough time already trying to keep my posts down to around 4 a day.  There are just too many things I feel like writing about.  In fact, I probably leave about 4 posts on the table every day just to avoid being a monumental bore.  According to my darling wife, I may not be very successful on that last count, but I’m trying.

Greenfield,

Your blawg is like the ugliest, lowest tech blawg in the whole blawgosphere.  Would it kill you to put a little effort into making it look better.  Also, which one is you in the pic in the upper left corner?

Now, I am embarrassed to admit this, but I’m really a techno-Philistine.  My purpose was to put something in writing, and it never dawned on me when I started that my blogging program stunk.  What did I know?  I don’t even have an iPhone.  I assume that I could do a whole lot better with some of the programs used by others, who know something about technology, have a better eye for design or just got better advice than I did in the first place.  But I don’t and I didn’t.  Mea culpa. 

The problem now is that the time and energy it would take to change things would conflict with my adoration of inertia.  Sure, I could turn to someone smarter and more savvy than I to make Simple Justice soar, but then I would have to spend time thinking about things that just don’t matter to me.  So my solution is to stick with content and blow off appearance.  One day I’ll do something about, if I’m not too busy staring at those pigs in the sky.  Until then, cut me a break and live with it.

Well, that covers the full extent of my emails that I want to post about.  Keep those cards and letters coming.