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I haven't posted in a while. Why? Because all the posts I see coming in the near future are astonishingly unpleasant, and some may cost me friends.

For instance, the several conservative friends I have been acquiring may have a problem with my view of current politics and the criticism I feel coming of America and Americans - not liberals, that's shooting fish in a barrel, but conservatives. I have to post about the Catholic teaching about homosexuality, which I really dread. I cannot post about my country without a remark about its politics, which are humiliatingly bad. The only consolation being that Britain is even worse. The Blair government has hit rock bottom, its basic and ruinous emptiness is there for everyone to see, it has managed to worsen everything in Britain that it meant to improve, and yet there is no visible alternative. There are a couple of historical posts which would probably hurt or annoy two of the finest people on my f-list; and as if that wasn't enough, my ongoing fic A crime to outlive him is reaching a climax I simply do not want to write. How does someone get to a point where everything he might have to say is sure to hurt, anger or embarrass someone?