I'd just like to appropriate this...

I noticed the Atlantic had a new blog by Jeffrey Goldberg, who wrote one of the best articles I've recently read on Israel. I don't know how well the blog will turn out, but I wanted to align myself with this sentiment from his opening post:

This is almost certainly a mistake.

Friends tell me that I will take naturally to blogging because I am in possession of many poorly considered opinions about issues I understand only marginally. I am dubious, however.

Yup.