Falling Downs passes a milestone

I guess, all things considered, that's preferable to passing a kidney stone...

It's taken about a year and a half for this blog to get 50,000 reads. That's what the big-boy blogs get in a day, but no, we're not discouraged.

In fact, this unique combination of political satire, pet stories, and occasional investment tips is more popular than I ever expected.

The most popular story remains the Seven World Trade Center that I wrote just a couple of weeks after starting the blog. That gave me the false impression that a couple of thousand of people were going to be reading this every day.

Ha!

I did not appreciate the vast market for 911 trivia at the time I wrote that. People are making careers out of maintaining the flame of conspiracy innuendo around 911, and I'm not interested in being one of those people.

Which doesn't change the fact that I worked at Milty Harris' Frankel Steel works where we fabbed up the beams and columns for WTC 7.  Nor does it change the fact that everybody who has ever worked hands-on with structural steel knows those buildings can't just fall down because there's a fire for a couple of hours.

This remains America's greatest unsolved mystery.

But it ain't mine to unravel.

There's a few favorite issues we tend to come back to. The never-ending screw-over of native people. The long long long goodbye of the working class in Canada and the US. The endless idiocy of endless war that our political class steers us into at the behest of those who will profit from them. The tragic imbecility of the war on drugs...

But after all that it's still about the view from here, Falling Downs. One of the least productive organic farms anywhere. Twelve quarts of currant jam to show for five years of organic farming. And I can literally still show you eleven of them, because while the one we finished off was quite tasty, you can only eat so much currant jam, and eleven jars isn't enough to make it worth your while to rent a table at the farmers market.

Beyond all that, I'm having fun writing it.

Hope at least a few of those folks have enjoyed reading it.