My routine warning from Warren not to blog the upcoming Esquire piece too much
Sunday, January 15, 2006 at 6:17AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

So I will shy from blogging stories that would pull me down that line of temptation.


It's just hard, because you get so psyched about the piece and it's so big in your head.


But Warren never pays me until the piece comes out, clever bastard that he is, so I will have to bury my knowledge for now by pretending "I know nothing--noooooooooothing!"


I've already begun doing this. Was going to blog story about Army decision to kill drone program, but as I started getting into the analysis, I started spilling over into points from the article, so I just had to junk the piece.


Ditto for a WSJ piece on Army in Iraq over weekend. Tempting, tempting, but no.


I must avoid the triggers that make my bad behavior inevitable!


Puppy will sit until master throws the check across the lawn.

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