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The biggest means to increasing regular readership is involving your occasional readers through a better comment experience.  These five pugins will do just that if you do it right. 1) Nofollow Free:  Without going nofollow free few small blogs have a hope in hell of drawing lots of comments straight out of the box.  You will get some spam, but nothing worth having comes without a little bit of work.  there are easy ways around this too.  Akismet will block most spam.  Moderated comments will... Read Full Story

(CNN) — For nearly two years, the South Florida middle school art teacher forced the boy to have sex in a classroom supply closet…  But a year later, Mohanlal has yet to spend a day in prison. I personally am shocked and horrified by this.  At first reading I wanted to rage and scream.  Then I wanted to know why.  Wanting to know why, left me with the unmistakable need to blame someone. In asking myself how this could possibly happen, I didn’t like the answer I found.  This judge is known... Read Full Story

The more bio-fuel we make the less food we can grow.  We already produce an excess of corn which is fuel intensive to grow.  We aren’t using crop land to grow the switch grass though we could and still come out ahead.  We can drive the cost of growing crops down by harvesting with bio-fuel powered machinery. Ethanol puts out more pollution than gasoline.  In some studies this is the case.  However automakers never wanted to work on the problem, because they were one in bed with the oil... Read Full Story

Those were the words I heard often enough at as kid when I was being cautious.  I heard them from friends who tried to goad me into trouble making either with or for them. I heard them from many a male relative who simple mistook caution for timidity and didn’t really know what else manly they could say. Now that I am older and wiser those words keep coming back to me.  No, they don’t pertain to my blogging for the most part.  When they do I shudder with revulsion and take action.  This time... Read Full Story

Yes, a war criminal has been arrested, and no it isn’t George W Bush. (CNN) –Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been arrested after more than a decade as a fugitive from war crimes charges, the U.N. tribunal that charged him announced today. Karadzic, 63, was the Serb political leader When it is all said and done will we ever charge Bush for what he has done.  Many have come forward even the Red Cross and called W a war criminal.  Will we ever bring him to task for his crimes... Read Full Story

In the course of nearly ten years of being a stay at home dad by default I have learned a few things. Call it a parenting course based on my on the job training. 5) You are Dad. That means a lot, don’t shirk your responsibilities. You will have to turn off your xbox or step away from the computer to watch Sesame Street and smile when you would rather strangling that fucking Elmo. Putting on the right face is part of the job. 4) You are Dad. Don’t try and be Mom. It will never work. It... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Republican Sen. Phil Gramm said Friday that he is stepping down as co-chairman of Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign amid criticism for saying last week that “we have sort of become a nation of whiners.” I actually can’t say I disagree with Phil on this.  In fact I might take it a step further and say we have become The Bitch and Moan Nation.  I am however not going to say we are without cause.  Our government has let us down for too long.  No one really... Read Full Story

Every blogger wants a reaction to their posts.  Whether or not everyone will admit, this is the whole reason we do what we do it.  It is no fun talking out of your ass if everyone ignores you.  So ask yourself what are you doing for those people? I have put a lot of thought into this of late.  I know how to get a lot of diggs when I want, and a lot of traffic too.  What I was missing though were lots of comments.  I read what the big guys were saying.  Then I realized many of them were just... Read Full Story

This applies to everyone from homeowners and golf courses to the state and federal governments. With a fuel crisis full on for everyone it seems stupid to keep wasting gas mowing grass.  Really people think about it. This isn’t just a hot tired cranky guy who sweated his ass off this afternoon doing his city mandated task of cutting the grass saying this either. Let’s take it from my point of view first and foremost though.  I have a roughly 50 x 100 foot yard. There is a 30×40 foot house... Read Full Story