I agree but SSL doesn't encrypt the IP so there is that information leaked. That isn't to say don't use SSL but more it isn't 100% privacy protection from middlemen.

Yeah, it's unfortunate that it doesn't hide the IP address you connect to. But my thinking is: for someone to hypothetically get in trouble for reading my blog if I don't use SSL, their ISP/government just needs to inspect the packets they receive and scan for particular words or phrases, and they'll have hard proof that the person accessed a particular article. If I use SSL, those governments must have specifically flagged my web server's IP address, and they won't have any hard proof about what content was accessed.

So while it's not perfect, it's pretty good, and a very low investment for me as a website owner :)