It was two years ago today that I started blogging. DogRat presently has 1234 posts and averages over 100,000 hits/month from over 5,000 different addresses. In the past year I have realized a 100% increase in blogging years. Next year at this time there will have been only a 50% increase compared to now. So it goes.
McCain’s faint praise
“McCain tells cheering GOP he’ll change Washington”
I don’t get it. When you want change, you vote for the other party. That’s how it works. How can McCain say he’ll change Washington without repudiating Bush?
Batman joker Colbert
Stephen Colbert has finished his Make McCain Exciting Green Screen Challenge. He gets in a couple of good critiques of two of the final entries, including an excellent Batman-related joke the submission is lacking.
Virtual India ink
This is my big sister Leslie, the doctor, who just got back from a trip to India with her daughter.
GOP glop
Republicans now belong to the party of working mothers and special needs kids? Sounds good, but I think the Democrats were there first, a long time ago.
Bill Melendez, 1916 – 2008
Bill Melendez, who animated Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang, has died. Melendez also did the unmistakable “voice” of Snoopy.
Sally “Lucy” Dryer, Gail “Peppermint Patty” DeFaria, Peter “Charlie Brown” Robbins, Chris “Linus” Shea, and Bill “Snoopy” Melendez.