A New Day

Okay... finally!

After many hours of tinkering until I got the template looking just the way I wanted it, I'm finally ready to start filling this blog with all the useless drivel that is to come.

First some acknowledgements:

First and foremost, I'd like to thank Senator Trent Lott (R-Mississippi), who was the founding inspiration for this endeavor. With any luck, someone on his staff will see this and show him that he has awakened a groggy and quite inhospitable penguin. Please take your apologies and your disgusting threats and get out of Washington D.C. We don't need you in order to secure our destined status as the majority party. More importantly, and to paraphrase a certain Democrat, "(We) have a dream..." for the 21st century, and anyone who recalls fondly the days of segregation (consciously or unconsciously) does not figure prominently in that dream.

Though they may never see this, I'd like to thank James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal and Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs who quite unintentionally may cause me to become addicted to blogging. At the very least, they have wasted much of my reading time in the last year, and have forced me to try this. Thanks a lot, gentlemen!

To the folks at The Fourth Turning I have nothing to say. I came here to escape you. I still believe, however....

David VanNatta, thanks for all your friendship through the years. Steve Johnson, I've started this despite the fact that you'll probably take it over in a few months for your own - until then, it's my idea so go away.

And lastly, to the individual who first made me understand how personally I am affected by politics, who has been my guiding inspiration in all that I do, and from whom I earned my nickname. You're one helluva penguin, Opus!

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OK... well, maybe I wasn't finished, but hopefully I am now. After the last entry I noticed some wierd things going on with the archiving code. I haven't a clue how web-idiots get around it, but I managed to rewrite the templates until there weren't any more linkage problems. If you see anything strange, please give me a heads up.