A major and very interesting day in the blogosphere, because Andrew Sullivan has just announced his intention to put his blog on hiatus. Sullivan was a pioneer in the creation of what be called the personal editorial page–and found his voice, his audience and his momentum from his passionate response to the September 11 attacks. But something began to go awry with Sullivan in the wake of the Iraq war, when the postwar difficulties really threw him for a loop. Since the middle of the summer of 2003, reading Sullivan has been like riding non-stop on a teeter-totter. It is impossible for Sullivan to take a position on the war on Islamofascism and hold it. He says he’s giving up the blog to write a book, but I suspect his intellectual inconstancy and confusion have played a major role in the decision as well. It’s very difficult to make your way in the waters of instantaneous opinion without an anchor, and with the exception of gay rights, Sullivan doesn’t have an anchor any longer. It was getting exhausting to read him, and Sullivan’s choice suggests he has exhausted himself as well.