It’s 7.50 p.m. and I’m waiting to hear what Obama has to say at 8 o’clock.  While I wait, the computer’s on my lap like a purring cat, and I am reading blogs, including the always interesting Andrew Sullivan’s.  He wrote a column about why he writes a blog, and finishes like this:

“In fact, for all the intense gloom surrounding the news-paper and magazine business, this is actually a golden era for journalism. The blogosphere has added a whole new idiom to the act of writing and has introduced an entirely new generation to nonfiction. It has enabled writers to write out loud in ways never seen or understood before. And yet it has exposed a hunger and need for traditional writing that, in the age of television’s dominance, had seemed on the wane.

Words, of all sorts, have never seemed so now.”