I Am What's Wrong with Democracy

Or maybe I'm what's right with the workplace.

Two things:

1) With the 2006 elections over and the Democrats' effort to push and pull us out of Iraq turned into a long and twisted trip through a maze that the Republicans write and the Democrats try to erase -- and vice versa....

2) And with my requiring mandatory weekly blogging from my reporting students and even more mandatory blogging and report writing from my journalism ethics students....

... I am certainly neglecting my RSS feeds. I am failing to scrutinize my Bloglines subscriptions in a timely manner, as you can see, post after post piling up unread:

• Center for Citizen Media: Blog (39) (0)
• Crooks and Liars (172) (0)
• The Daily Cattown News (3) (0)
• Daily Kos (181) (1)
• Darwin's Cat Presents the 15-Minute Man (8) (0)
• Democracy in America (56) (0)
• Editor And Publisher - Ad/Circ (21) (0)
• Editor And Publisher - Online (39) (0)
• Editor And Publisher - Technology (27) (0)
• Editor's Pick on The Huffington Post (0) (2)
• The Editorialist (23) (0)
• Editors Weblog - all postings (114) (0)
• Eschaton (27) (2)
• Firedoglake (200) (0)
• God's Politics (83) (0)
• Informed Comment (43) (0)
• MarketWatch.com - JON FRIEDMAN'S MEDIA WEB (9) (0)
• MediaShift (15) (0)
• MyDD (22) (1)
• New Urban Legends (9) (0)
• Home Page: 200 unread, 0 kept new" bl_sub="12871747" bl_site="297833" bl_id="sub_12871747_297833" id="treeasub_12871747_297833" class="unread">NYT > Home Page (200) (0)
• The Panda's Thumb (58) (0)
• Patrick Finley Memorial Fantasy Baseball League (1) (0)
• Pharyngula (156) (0)
• PressThink (1) (0)
• RawStory.com Headlines (200) (0)
• Regret the Error (85) (0)
• Salon (200) (0)
• Taegan Goddard's Political Wire (10) (0)
• Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall (194) (0)
• Teaching Online Journalism (32) (0)
• USF Journalism Blog (1) (0)
• Washington Monthly: Political Animal (11)

Am I missing anything I need to know to act decisively?

When was the last time I acted decisively?

Still, it's like that pile of unread New Times piling up in the corner. It's a visual rebuke.