After being fiercely attacked for not knowing enough about water rights, Matthew Yglesias takes a melancholic turn,

[B]log reading is a completely worthless exercise and nobody should really engage in it. I started writing this blog as a hobby; I thought it would be a fun thing to do. And I not only continue to enjoy writing it, but people pay me to write it. But the mere fact that I’m writing it doesn’t make it a worthwhile thing to read, which is why the overwhelming majority of Americans have never read this blog and never will.

Such honesty from a leading young light of the blogosphere is touching and refreshing. And what he writes is mostly true. Yet Yglesias is being unnecessarily harsh on himself. As one of the most popular liberal bloggers, he is almost invariably worth reading. And, importantly, he has that remarkable ability to write about something every few minutes–a skill not to be sniffed at.

We all know that blog-world is grossly self-absorbed, silly, presumptuous, vain, and probably futile. But then so is most human endeavor, is it not? Chin up, Mr Yglesias, and blog on.