Bush Bashing = Big Bucks!

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This story concerns the "Bush Bashing" industry, people profiting off the sale of "Buck Fush" and "W-TF?" merchandise, and it poses the question, "what will they do when he's gone?" Party like it's frickin' 1999, and none if this crap ever happened, that's what. And then they--and I--will put our energies elsewhere. There's always the chance that the next President will be Grampy McCain, right, my friends?

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The Hate-Bush Economy

The practice of mocking U.S. political leaders is as old as George Washington's wooden teeth. But George W. Bush's slide in popularity has taken president bashing to new highs (or lows, depending on your point of view), driving a cottage industry of anti-Dubya T-shirts, bumper stickers, and even dog biscuits. . .

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George W. Bush Cries Giving Posthumous Award

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I'll admit it, I'm a "Bush basher." I think I have plenty of good reasons, and he keeps giving us more and more reasons too. This isn't exactly one of them, but due to my deep rooted cynicism toward any thing Bush, my skepticism kicked in. Bush crying while presenting a posthumous award to a Iraq War veteran? I didn't buy it any more than when Mrs. Clinton cried (or for that matter, all the times Mitt Romney cried).

Still, it's an overdue act on his part. How ever many soldiers he's honored, eulogized, or spoken of, it can never be enough.

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Bush gives Medal of Honor to Navy SEAL

"The Medal of Honor is awarded for an act of such courage that no one could rightly be expected to undertake it," Bush said. "Yet those who knew Michael Monsoor were not surprised when he did."

Bush has awarded the medals to 10 people during his presidency. Monsoor is only the third from the Iraq war, and Bush's lip trembled and tears streamed down his cheeks as the official citation was read with the details of his bravery. . .

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Blogiversary: 9 Months! 1890+ Posts!

The good news is, I've hung in there for 9 long months. Whole humans have been conceived and born in that time! And I've posted (with a little help) almost 1,900 posts. Don't get me wrong, I've had a lot of fun doing it.

But I can't help feeling just a little bummed this month. Visits to my blog have dropped over the last month, and I have no idea why. February was still my fourth-highest read month, so it isn't exactly tragic. But after a seven month uphill climb in readership, the graph now seems to be headed the other way. I know that there is readership beyond my site meter, due to RSS readers--who tend to be a fickle bunch apparently. I've seen RSS subscribers rise to 25 or so (no great shakes, but hey, thanks for coming), and then plummet to 7 or 8 overnight.

The most perplexing thing to me is that my topics here have remained fairly consistent. I try to balance the sour with the sweet, the Bush bashing with some frivolity. I suspect that many people come here from a Google search, checking out a Blast from the Past post, or maybe a Science is Cool. They favorite me, and then find out I'm a liberal lefty moonbat! Buh-bye Greenlee Gazette! But I happen to know that there are lots of us out there. Maybe so many that it is hard to grab peoples' attention.

So, I'll keep plugging away. When I started, I dared not dream that I'd have nearly 17,000 hits in the first nine months. While that may be a number that The Drudge Report or Democratic Underground gather between clicks of the keys, it's pretty good for a (nearly) one-man show. And to tell you the truth, if I clicked my site meter and found out I got 17,000 hits in a month, a week or a day, I'd be terrified! I get stage fright. Still, it would be fun to find out.

Bring your friends!