I actually like Lileks' musings about his personal life and his daughter; they're charming in a Bombeckian way, only a little better. And his writing about stupid food and interior design, and his architectural pictorials, are great stuff.

But the Brain Eater's been hitting him so hard that I haven't had the urge to read him in months. His political writing has never been good, actually; I mean, he's a Republican and I'm not, and that's part of it, but I'd appreciate it if he were offering reasoned arguments, and he really never has even when he's saying stuff I agree with. His writing is emotionally driven, about feelings and attitudes, and that's a bad if popular way to argue about political issues. At best it's like Maureen Dowd only on the other side of the fence. And lately he's gotten so emotionally invested in the politics that it just drives out everything else.