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I believe it was Lewis Carroll who said that when he got up every morning, he tried to think of at least ten impossible things. Well, this headline is impossible thing number one for me today!

It does conjure up quite a picture, doesn’t it? Britney with her been-to-prison haircut and Dick, always about ten pounds heavy for the suit he’s wearing. Both sucking face! Dick, red-faced, about to have a heart attack, with his dentures hung up on Britney’s hardware!

Actually, I can’t be too hard on either of them. Britney has issues, so to speak. I’ve never heard her sing, and I really don’t understand the appeal, but I can always appreciate a good marketeer! In his book, The Art of The Start, Guy Kawasaki said a mediocre product with great promotion will outsell a great product with mediocre promotion, any day.

As to Dick Cheney, I suspect next to Hillary Clinton his might be one of the most polarizing names in the blogosphere! Now, mine is not a political blog, per se, but I do have my leanings, which are decidedly “red state.” I’m not a republican, but I’m sure as heck not a liberal! Let me put it this way, I don’t care what you do as long as I have the freedom to do what I do!

I’m saying all of this by way of working out what I’m beginning to see as the direction I want to take with this blog.

As I blog and read blogs, I categorize. There are the tech blogs, the blogs about blogging blogs, the new age blogs, political blogs, and the angst-ridden twenty something blogs. I’m sure I missed a few, but you’ve got the picture.

For quite some time, I’ve been unable to see myself fitting into any of those pre-cast molds.

So, as my blog comes of age, it will, I suspect, become rather unique, just as I am very unique.

What makes a really successful blog, I’m sure, is a strong bond between reader and writer. What makes a strong bond is a writer who is truthful, honest, but most importantly entertaining.

For about three weeks, I had been rocking along with my blog, figuring out the technical aspects and seeing my readership creep ever higher, albeit slowly.

About a week ago, I read a post of Steve Olson’s blog that lit me up. It was about our failing educational system. I wrote a lengthy comment to Steve’s inspired post. Steve linked to me and included a previous post of mine, How To Turn Your Daughter Into A Whore In Two Easy Steps, in his weekly round up.

My traffic soared! I don’t know if it was my expose of what life in a normal American high school is really like, or my edgy title that drew the most attention. I suspect it was the title, coupled with my own brand of sarcastic humor, that fueled my reading explosion.

Not one to let little things like this slide, I decided this weekend to capitalize (God, I love that word, it’s so much like Capitalism!) on this trend and move my blog more toward that edgy, sarcastic wit that comes to me so naturally.

Hence poor Britney Spears and Dick Cheney. Somehow that image popped into my head, and I couldn’t get it out. So, I thought I would share it with you!

God Speed!

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