A person could blog while on short trip to Florida, certainly, but it is too hard to study Red Sox minor leaguers and observe whether Tim Wakefield can actually get off the mound, while considering world and national affairs. It did not help that much of that passes for news on the various media available while in transit was about yet another person's problems with his sexuality, and not anything of any real significance.
Congressman Patrick Kennedy has his own problems: many of them we know about, and there are likely a few about which we are ignorant. He was a bit over the top then in a speech about what interests "the media" and what they decline to cover but his point was a good one, and goes directly to why our system of government is in grave danger.