You can read the whole article here.

When “Web” and “log” were combined to form the word “blog” in 1999, few foresaw the power these online journals would wield. Now, blogs number near 4 million and deal with every conceivable topic — from favorite recipes to education reform to Mick Jagger sightings. The influential commentary of political bloggers earned them invites to last summer’s national party conventions, and in September, bloggers pulled the curtain on Dan Rather and those spurious National Guard papers. Want a piece of the action? Running a great blog and gaining loyal readers isn’t easy, but use these tips as you hop on the bandwidth bandwagon and you’ll be on your way.

Among other things, WaPo recommends frequent blogging - I think I do okay there. Clearly, some days more than others. Yesterday? Two whole posts, and one of ‘em was really short. It’s only been today for half an hour or so now, and I’ve already posted like five times!

I’m am SUCH a blog whore. Or, I’m suffering from “blogorrhea”. You decide.

I completely agree with the “proliferate your opinion” bit, too. I make it a goal to post on a minimum of half a dozen blogs a day, and I probably peruse at least triple that number on a daily base. And since I’ve returned from Thanksgiving break, I’ve upped it up a notch - in fact, when I want to Connecticut I had had ONE trackback. Now I have SIX (in just over two weeks). I should note that two of those are from rather conservative sites - Digger’s Realm and The Jawa Report. This scares me a bit.

I also went from like 60 comments to, currently, 136. Not counting a lot of spammers trying to hawk shit in three month old posts. Also, some of the commenters? Not family or friends who I begged to visit and post! How cool is THAT?

Saturday I linked to a story posted throughout the liberal blogosphere about how the pros of the life of a slave were being taught to school children in the South.

Today - well, yesterday - the Iron Mouth has an update:

Cary Christian School beat a hasty retreat before the advances of the decent people of North Carolina. They dropped the book from the curriculum because of “faulty footnotes and citation errors in the publication.”

Apparently the parents at the school found out what their kids were being taught, and the people running Cary Christian School found out that America was a decent place, filled with decent human beings.

Yep.

… is dead (warning: don’t read unless you have the time to spare to cry) –

Living with pets means outliving them. It’s the natural course of events. They brighten our lives, enrich our experience, and make a home feel…well, like home. They create memories and leave us with smiles as we look for our lint rollers and/or paper towels to clean up the hairballs. The price to be paid for this is having to say goodbye far sooner than we would choose if left to our own devices. Having to make the decision to have a pet put down is a terrible, gut-wrenching decision that can feel somewhat akin to playing God. It’s a final, irreversible decision that never feels good. Today is the fourth time I’ve had to make this decision with one of my cats, and it NEVER gets any easier. It is always an emotionally wrenching and draining experience. I still feel empty and very, very sad. I know that we did the right thing, but it’s hard to feel that way. A heavy heart becomes lighter with the passage of time; that’s how these things work. Life goes on, as it must…after all, what’s the other option?

I’m going to go wash my face, now.

Well that sucked, and I had a long post on the Melungeons to go up, too. My cable went “zzzzzt” and I lost everything. Couldn’t even watch TV, that was zapped too. Went and read some more of Conrad Black’s FDR bio — a must read for any fans of the longest serving president in US history.

Who are the Melungians you ask? Possibly descendents of Portugeuse or Turkish sailors who arrived in North America centuries before the Pilgrims. They intermarried with Native American tribes, and later with blacks. They were encountered by Dutch explorers in the Appalachians in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky in the 16th century. Hat tip to the History Channel’s “Weird US” (which does not seem to have a fuctioning website).

It’s always cool to learn something new.