A Backlog of "Nation" Magazines

I love the Nation magazine, as I wrote here on 2/7/11, but because the issues come every week, they tend to pile up. As I said in my post of 4/6/11 about my "magazine pile," New York and The New Yorker also come every week, but I usually read them more quickly. The Nation, although it is important to me, is a bit heavier, more demanding, more serious, more earnest, more political than the other two. I admire and value it very much, I learn much from it, and I get information and ideas from it that I don't get elsewhere. But in general it is not something I eagerly pick up for pure enjoyment the way I do the other two magazines, and several others I subscribe to that arrive (thankfully!) less frequently. Today I noticed that almost three months of back issues of The Nation had piled up, so despite my waiting piles of papers to grade, I set aside a couple of hours to plow through -- and I mean PLOW through -- these backlogged issues. I admit I skipped and skimmed a fair amount, especially as some of the articles were no longer timely. But I thoroughly enjoyed my immersion in the Nation, and felt I had achieved something by powering through the whole pile. Whew!