So I apologize for blogging about another blog (how very meta, right?), but I had to note something. . .

I used to read The Volokh Conspiracy religiously.  In the past, the legal blog full of scholars, academics, and respected practitioners used to host some interesting discussion with a right-of-center bent.  For the past few months, though, I’ve noticed that the site just doesn’t have the same draw for me as it used to.   Each writer on the site seems fixated on one or two topics:  Eugene Volokh only talks about free speech and gun nut issues (predictably), newer writer Stewart Baker seems to be conservative-asshole-in-chief, Todd Zywicki rants against anything that might be liberal, and David Kopel does a pretty good impression of me (long, rambly posts about nothing at all).  The site has also gone from right-of-center to right-of-Rush Limbaugh.

Sure, there are still a few decent things written on the site.  (I’m looking at you, Prof. Kerr.)  But as someone said to me the other day, “The site has just become too political.”  And too “meh.”

Has anyone else noticed that the site has been sucking it lately?

-Michael