I Just Beat George Will In A Contest That He Is Totally Unaware Of!

Every now and then, Daisy and I think about how this little site of ours started 3.5 years ago with approximately 40 readers (mostly our family/friends, and a few stragglers from the Mock Dock), and how TOTALLY PSYCHED we were when we hit 100 readers in a week.  “People like us!” we marveled.  “They really really like us!”

And then we went to our first Tea Party, and then we met Our Man Mitch, and then we started meeting other amazing people, and now we’re basically in a constant state of disbelief that our readership continues to grow, and that we continue to find ourselves in the company of true political power players far more often than we deserve, and that you all still seem to like us.

That is just so totally awesome.

And the reason I’m bringing this up is that I want you all to look at us as PROOF AND EVIDENCE that you can be regular everyday average dorks like we are, and decide to get involved and engaged in the political scene, and actually make an impact.  Every time one of y’all sends an email saying “Thanks for the great site” or “Y’all manage to say exactly what I’m thinking”  it gives me an immeasurable amount of glees.  Truly.  But mostly, I think, “Holy crap.  People are actually LISTENING to us.  They come here to hear what we have to say, and more importantly, to discuss the issues of today with other folks who think like them.”  And you know what?  It is an HONOR to be half of the team that has helped build this community.  I really mean that.

Most of the time, I don’t allow myself to feel even the slightest bit of ego about this site, because again, I’m just a regular everyday average dork who happened to meet my brainsharing soul sister at just the right time in our lives, and she convinced me that doing this would be a good idea.

But today?  I’m allowing myself a little bit of ego, and I’ll tell you why.

Yesterday, my mom sent me George Will’s latest article from this past weekend.   As I read it, I kept thinking, “This all sounds incredibly familiar to me.”  And so I came here, to the COTR search field, and I typed in “San Diego” and LO AND BEHOLD, I found this post that I wrote in July of 2011.   And I realized, “OMG.  I am nearly a FULL YEAR AHEAD of George Will on reporting this information. “  So I sent the COTR link back to my mom, and wrote, “ George Will is a FULL YEAR behind me on writing about this.  And frankly, my column is better.”

I was MOSTLY kidding, because HELLO.  It’s George Will.  I need a dictionary to get through most of his columns.

My mom wrote me back and said, “You are absolutely right, your post was not only a year ahead, but also more succinct. You can make a new post with links to both, and point out your superiority.”

I’m basically 100% positive that she was TOTALLY kidding, because HELLO.  It’s George Will.  Still, it made me feel good, and so I allowed myself enough ego to write this post and tell you that I am nearly a full year ahead of George Will on this particular story, and that my post included the words “suck” and “crap” in it, whereas his did not.  I have decided to look at that as a positive.

And that was enough to give me a little bit of ego today.

Speaking of my mom, she was one of several hundred Catholics who rallied at the Indianapolis statehouse last week to fight for religious freedom and speak out against the Obamacare mandate.

I guess it's true that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. (Except my mom doesn’t say “suck” or “crap.”)