From the Persistent Complaints Department

Ideology knows the answer...before the question has been asked. Don't recall from whom I stole that. Secondly, a list. I regularly get my political commentary from Talking Points Memo and Mattthew Yglesias; those are the two sources I read daily. Less often, I read Ezra Klein, John Bernstein (A Plain Blog About Politics), and Paul Krugman. All leftists. I don't read writers with whom I regularly disagree on any regular basis; less than once per week is accurate. And even then I'd say it usually takes the form of my following up on something set in context for me from one of the preceding writers.

How dispiriting. I am aware enough to know that this is simple and hopelessly unsatisfying confirmation bias at work, but listless or insecure enough not to do anything about it. Anybody have success stories about dealing with this kind of habitual shallowness?

In part, motivated to post briefly on this topic after seeing Yglesias flag this bit about patterns within this world of mental shortcuts. To repeat, any help on this?

p.s. Pardon the blog absence. I went on spring break, but am back for real.