Year One

Tomorrow will be the one year anniversary of this blog. Wow, It has been 365 days, 75 posts, 5 political cartoons, and most recently, a podcast. In the past year this blog tackled two major stories. The first was the Andrea Stewart Cousins / Nicholas Spano race. The second being the president's Social Security Privitization plan. I tried to countered the president's 60 stop tour with a 20 stop tour of my own, but only managed to make it to 15. And also took on the President's claims about certain quotes from FDR which actually put me somewhere I never expected to be: # 3 on a google search for "fdr quotes". After the social security plan fizzled out, I sort of lost my way here, but as election day rolls around, I realized that I was coming up on the one year mark. I have given quite a bit of thought to shutting the blog down entirely. Given that I now do the radio show, I stopped using this as an outlet, but increasingly, I find that I want to look deeper into things, take a look at issues from multiple sides, and most importantly, go back to the very basic documents and sources that all the talk comes from. I watched the documentary "Left of the Dial" again today and immediately remembered why I started this blog. I remembered the helplessness that was eventually empowering. I will tell you now that I am planning to continue my work here on this blog. I am quite proud of what I have done with some issues, and there is certainly more to do. Late tomorrow I'll reveal the next stories that I'll be focusing on. Thanks to everyone who reads and refers. Year one in the bag, year two coming up.