I don't know if anyone is still reading because I haven't updated in FOREVER.  Sorry folks!  But I was writing posts and then finding roadblocks when it came time to add the pictures to the post.  HSB was talking like it would get easier to add pictures, so I took a break and waited.  No such luck.  So if I'm going to continue to blog, I'm going to have to find a blog host that will work with Flickr--most seem to.  HSB is just "special" I guess...

My second point of frustration is the political stance taken by the HSB people.  The gross promotion of Spunky's all out attack on Mike Huckabee makes me sick to my stomach.  They are promoting it as a place for debate, and that does occur in the comments, but the articles that the commenters are replying to are terribly closed-minded and just not responsible writing.  It is as bad as the yellow journalism in the very biased newspapers in Arkansas, taking quotes out of context and interpreting them in some utopian view point rather than the reality of the political and governmental climate in Arkansas.  Then, when someone who actually lives in Arkansas and was involved in the legislation being criticized (not me, another poster) tries to set the record straight, she is not acknowledged as someone who might know what she is talking about.  Her views are not considered persuasive in the least.  I just have no respect for that. 

I have even less respect that HSB is promoting and encouraging this and that the posts are on the blog of the publisher of The Old Schoolhouse magazine.  It is becoming very clear that HSB and TOS are going to be a big Ron Paul love fest and a complete lynching of a good man (Huckabee) who actually has a chance of doing well against a democrat opponent.  If that is what these people are about, I want nothing to do with them or their blog or their magazine.  So I'm officially closing this blog, such that it is, and will be taking my thoughts and ramblings to a new host, hopefully somewhere that I can post pictures without being led to say things I shouldn't say.  And I'm thinking I'll probably cancel my magazine subscription too.  I just don't need the stress...

If you've read this, thanks and sorry for the negative and frustrated tone.