Sad but true

From James Joyner:

Further, as I’ve discussed perhaps ad nasuem in posts over the past five plus years, most blogs are frankly unreadable by those not sympathetic to the point of view of the author. This holds true even when one excludes the 90-plus percent of political blogs that are unreadable, period. Few people have an appetite for being rudely insulted on a regular basis, having their intelligence, decency and patriotism questioned.

To rip off Lionel Trilling, I'd say that there is no thought, as such, on the typical political blog, just "irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas."