Back again.

So I’m going to start writing here again.

It’s been a really long time since I last wrote here, as you can plainly see by scrolling down to the next post, which is dated April 28.

I know it’s counterintuitive. I write mostly about politics, and wrote nothing about the presidential campaign. Then the day after it ends I start writing again.

The truth is, I got sidetracked last spring, and then I just couldn’t bring myself to add another voice yelling over the horserace. I had a lot to say, but I felt like someone else would say it anyway, so why bother? I still think I was right. I probably would have gone apoplectic writing about the Palin freak-show and watching a once-respectable senator do a lousy imitation of circa-1950 Richard Nixon. So that was that.

But now it’s over. The world starts anew. It’s a brand new era in American politics, as stark a change as 1932 or 1980. I want to analyze how we got here and where we are going.

I don’t intend Able Archer to last very long. I don’t see myself as a first-person blogger, and I think in the media there’s way too much talking and not enough listening. By that I mean it’s time to get out there and report. For now, however, I’m just going to write what I think and let that be.

—Douglas Carlucci