“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money,” Dr. Johnson famously observed. By the great wit’s reckoning, then, Your Author is deadwood from the neck up, since the cultural capital I’ve amassed through True/Slant, rubbing elbows with writers like Susannah Breslin and Matt Taibbi and learning [...]

My time here has come to an end. Actually, it did so two days ago, but I didn't have the time at the moment to put up a proper farewell post. I wanted to say something fitting, not rush out a jumble of words in the spaces between fleeting moments [...]

It's no fresh news that True/Slant was bought by Forbes Media a few months ago. That purchase, though unclear at the beginning, pretty much intuitively meant the end of True/Slant. It meant the end of a great idea in independent journalism and the end of a community, which truly felt [...]

I'm a little late to the good-bye party. It's been really great writing here these past months - nearly a year I think, but I've lost track. The whole crew here - staff, but also other writers - has been extremely kind, helpful, welcoming and it's been a neat experience. [...]

I've learned a great deal at my time here on True/Slant - mostly that blogging is damn hard work and you've got to be passionate about your subject or it's not worth it for either the reader or the writer. That said, I will continue to write about the topics [...]

I write my last post for True/Slant a bit worn out from a full day of kayaking yesterday. It was easy river kayaking, mainly, with just one madly technical section of Class 2 stuff, but a full day of paddling and some porting in the sun saps you a bit. The [...]

  Well, I haven't posted anything in quite some time due to the forces of the outside world draining all life force and time from me ... but I do want to say goodbye to everyone whose path I've ever crossed here on TrueSlant. We've had some uproarious debates -- mostly [...]

My gratitude to everybody who visited this blog, to everybody who cares about wrongful convictions, to everybody involved in making the criminal justice system truly a system about justice. Please feel free to visit me at www.steveweinbergwriter.com

My old man taught me to say "so long" whenever we parted because he contended "goodbye" should be reserved for permanent occasions, like the one Emily Dickinson refers to here:

Good-by to the life I used to live, And the world I used to know; And kiss the hills for me, [...]

My real 'goodbye' starts and ends here. It's just after 1pm in Budapest, which I suppose means around 7am in New York city, and another 18 hours before... what? I'm not really sure. Does the site just disappear offline with a trace? It seems hard to believe. Curmudgeonly old bastard that I [...]