There was an interesting comment the other day from a regular reader who said, “Where did that microphone come from?” She could not understand why the topic was suddenly microphones. The simple answer was that we had just been at an event where the microphone and sound system were in terrible condition and nobody seemed to know how to handle the problem.
What we realized was that her concern was that, once again, we had wandered from the political commentary for which she reads our blog. That fits the pattern we have seen in the statistical analysis we get from Google Analytics. For example, the best read column in the past year was the one on the F-35 fighter aircraft. It was not the discussion of the attributes of the aircraft that interested people but the political decisions behind it.
That settles it. Our blog is now just of political commentary. Most readers seem to have little problem with the liberal bias. The Provincial Liberal Party here in Babel might argue that but their problem is that we are not writing for them. When we see them doing the job properly and democratically, we will cheerfully recognize their effort. When we see Premier McGuinty showing some leadership and liberalism, we will find something nice to say about him. His only positive attributes at the moment are that he is not Tim Hudak or Andrea Horwath.
In the past year, we have posted something in our blog 365 days in a row. That is sometimes a chore and sometimes we are posting something just to be here. That is to stop. If there is nothing posted one day, it will be because we have nothing important to say. Posting a new item two or three times a week is an easier schedule for this writer and readers get better quality stuff.
There are also times we are busy working on something else. Thank goodness some people like our writing enough to pay for it.
We are going to stop the silly little poems. Nobody has ever admitted to reading them or even chuckling. We believe that the poem, The man who stood on the side of the road, was the synthesis of Michael Ignatieff’s time as leader of the federal Liberals. Few agreed with us. The continuing series of two and three liners were going to be our contribution to Twitter (we called them our ‘twits”), but Twitter has already lost its bloom in social commentary..
We will try for more balance between the federal, provincial and municipal scene. The current municipal scene lacks the humour of the last council. Mind you, having the free services of Councillor Prowse as our new chauffeur is a funny tale but we will save that for when council takes July off.
The danger in commenting on the federal political scene is that, too often, discussions of the Harper government’s policies—or lack thereof—come across as rants. Sorry about that but some people can really piss you off.
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