My Future Blogging Plans

Wanted to let my loyal reader(s) know that I'll be launching a new blog. It'll kick off Monday, if I can get everything together by then, or the following Monday if I need a bit more time. It will be devoted solely to EFCA (the Employee Free Choice Act). The layout will be a little different, though not radically. I've been putting together press releases, press lists, and trying to work on some layout issues...basically all the things I didn't do when I started TPBP. I've thought about cross posting to TPBP, but I think I'll use this space to post non-EFCA related commentary, should I have any.

I'll be sure to post here when the new blog's up and running.

Too Small to Save: Update

After getting some extremely positive feedback on this post (most of it private, save for an anonymous comment) I've decided to spend what's turned out to be a totally inordinate amount of time reworking it, and will probably be submitting it as an Op-Ed piece. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Handing Over

Unless I get inspired tonight, this will be my last post as the site administrator at TPBP. It will also be the last post in which I offer an opinion about most domestic or international political issues. Though, I just realized I don't really have any opinions to give...perhaps I should get it all out of my system:
Funding schools with property tax revenue is a terrible idea.
FISA worked by all accounts.
Iraq having a budget surplus isn't a bad thing.
God save me, but T. Boone Pickens is right, drill or don't drill, but the question itself is largely irrelevant.
McCain made a horrible mistake with Palin. I think things might get so bad that he dumps her.

Antonin Scalia is a bad, bad man, and an even worse Supreme Court Justice.
Torture is ethically wrong and practically unproductive.
War with Russia would be a terrible idea.
War with Iran would be a terrible idea.
Public sabre rattling with Russia is inherently destabilizing.
Making abortion illegal is a bad policy idea, regardless or your ethical leanings.
You should vote for Obama in November unless he subsequently kills a drifter while campaigning in Michigan.
No, really, please vote for him. I don't know what I'll do if he loses.

That's all folks. Fear not, as TPBP will continue on and will be better than ever in the coming days and weeks.

Basking in the Light of Glory That is TPBP

Reader 'Marna R' writes:

I very much enjoy this blog! It slices out a solid 25 minutes of every work day, so thanks for that! Keep up the good work guys!

I think this could be called our first official "fan comment" (shocked it only took a month). Now, you may be asking yourselves if Marna is a close personal friend of mine and Aaron's. Well...yes, she is. But, that's not the point. The point is that TPBP has now become a device by which one kills some small part of one's day at the office, which is really all I ever wanted it to be. Perhaps someday, far into the future, someone who isn't a close, personal friend will see fit to avoid work in a similar manner, though I won't hold my breath. Until then, thanks for reading Marna! Welcome to TPBP community/cult/burrow/subdivision.

Post Script: I might add that Aaron and I are still eagerly anticipating our first piece of legitimate hate mail/comment, hopefully from a stranger. Dream big we say.

Aquarius Full Moon in D Minor

It's all down hill from here. Delivering on her promise (was there ever any doubt?) Mrs Green not only resurrected her Lunar Astrology posts, but saw fit to...I'm tearing up, I'll just let Mrs Green herself explain it:

How often do you get to make someone’s dream come true? Not often I bet. But this morning, dear readers, I wield this enormous power and responsibility by dedicating this post to the honour of The Pseudo Body Politic (TPBP).

Do I understand their blog? Not on your nelly, but as they were good enough to miss my posts, fearing I had died from a vitamin deficiency, or that I was sitting here in the dark after Mr Green’s home made LEDs blew the circuitry, I’m good enough to share the love and do this one especially for them / her / him / whomever…. (and to report, that I am fighting fit with all trace elements in perfect balance AND the lights are working great off a car battery).

Her full post, in all its mystery and glory, is here. You're doing yourselves a disservice by avoiding it for another moment.

So, from the entire TPBP community, thank you Mrs Green.