Damn I'm boring

Ever since stumbling on the medical blogs (thanks DB) I've been surfing quite a bit. There are some amazing sites out there. And I'm a damn poor writer.

Great reads:

Best legal site without a doubt: Legal Underground- be sure to check the comments for the occasional posts by Ted Olson of Overlawyered. How he has the time for it I don't know. I also like Yeoman Lawyer, in part because I can feel his pain in this post and he brings the perspective of a defense lawyer to the tort reform issue.

Science - Check out Respectful Insolence. Plenty of links to other sites with even deeper subjects I dream of having the time to contemplate.

Medicine - I still stand by my old favorites, Dr. Charles (although he's got an awfully thin skin.), and Rangel are where I go first.

Other - I can't leave out Nate, particularly since the introduction of the Skeptics' Circle, a must read. And of course, Shrinkette, who I don't want to classify w/ the other docs, as her perspective is pretty unique.

Back to the point, it's depressing how uninteresting my writing has become. I think part of it is the legal training, which teaches you to recognize the other side's position and be prepared to refute it. That undermines the kind of unquestioning belief in your own rightness you need to take a position in the first place, because you soon see there are two sides to nearly everything. Yet you then must become relentless in weakening your opponent's argument. Which makes you, at a minimum, a bit of a bore. (What's the difference between accountants and lawyers? Accountants know they're boring.)

The other part is that while I've long harbored a bit of an underdog streak. These days I deal so much with those who just don't have a chance in life. Is a lot of it self inflicted? Of course, but much of it is just the luck of who your parents happen to be and what they expose you to and how much they push you to achieve. So I've become almost Naderesque in my anger toward those who would harm or limit those people even further, at least in the particular arena I'm in every day - law.

Oh well, for those 2 of you who do read this, I'm working on it, so try and be patient. I'll be human once again - I hope.