The Rock of Talk’s editor and policy director has been fighting tax-hikers, enviro-loons, corporate-welfare queens, single-payer socialists, poverty pimps, educrat unions, Identity Politics hustlers, and the lifestyle police for nearly 30 years.

D. Dowd Muska might have had a vacation — i.e., taking a trip, not bringing work along, and relaxing for at least a week — in the spring of 2001. He can’t remember the details. But certainly there’s been no break in the last two decades.

Now, Dowd loves his work. For him, it’s not a “job” or a “profession” — it’s a calling. Plus, besides pruning apple trees and providing canine care, fighting Big Government is the only thing he’s good at.

But he recently reached a big birthday (half a century), and when his sister and brother-in-law proposed a Sin City vacation — with a roadtrip back to New Mexico — Dowd thought “going on holiday” wasn’t such a bad idea. (Think he’s earned it?)

So Dot Chat will be on hiatus for a little while. But fear not! It will return before you know it.

In the meantime, why not check your subscription status (if you’re already a subscriber), or come on board as a full member (at less than 20¢ a day). With around 60 pieces of original content a month — including annotated podcasts of our program, the Daily Blast, and Dowd’s original research — membership in the KIVA community has its privileges.

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