Of course, I'm cynical about politics.  Campaigns roll out blogs to portay their candidate as cyber-savvy and with the crowd.  But what happens when the campaign ends?

If you're the winner, your blog, georgwbush.com/blog , now redirects to the main GOP portal page.  No blog remains at all!

If you're the loser, your blog, blog.johnkerry.com , remains.  But hasn't been updated since the day of doom. 

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Spring is here.   Not a lot of warmth yet, but the days are stretching out - about 2 to 3 minutes longer succeedingly.  I'm now alert to and looking for faces (flowers) floating out of the ground...

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Whatever happened to the clout of cartoons?  Once was, on Satruday mornings, every channel had cartoons.  Granted, there were only a few channels, no cable, but cartoons had a monopoly.  Kids totally ruled. 

Nowadays, though there are entire channels dedicated to 24-7 cartooning, the Saturday morning monopoly's been broken.  Seems that kids are just a part of the media market and not to be over-indulged.  Ah well, to have been a part of something that was once in the life!

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I got hold last week of an early (insider) release of uncirculated "Westward Journey" nickels.

And I've been handing one or two of them out to practically everybody I meet.  Hey, I'm now the 'Nickel Guy'.   I always knew some day that I'd have a claim to fame.