It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking…

In this case, we’ll take a rare (or, as some might say, nowhere near rare enough!) moment for a meta-solipsistic view. You see, this blog commenced postings on September 18, 2001… meaning we are now at our fourth anniversary (which is like 28 in talking dog years)… and a freaking eternity in the warp-speed world of blogs, let alone allegedly liberal blogs, of which this here is most likely an eminence gris.
Much has gone down in your world, and in ours. When we started the blog, Mr. & Mrs. TD were celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary; in a few weeks… our 14th. The Loquacious Pup was a toddler; now, a grade number attaches (worse… the LP might even be able to read this blog… ) We’re still at Casa Talking Dog, but we’ve gone through three jobs during the course of this blog (before finally landing in the perfect, responsible day job, serving the people… )
In that time, the nation has gone from a cohesive unit rallying together in a moment of national horror and grief to its usual divisive, self-interested self, with a peculiarly venal cast of characters in charge threatening the very viability of our constitution via a number of wars, actual, and ideological…
And we have been at the forefront of trying to bring you news from the fronts of these wars… with our day in day out commentary on the world and s***, and with our feature interviews, including with attorneys representing “unlawful combatants”, a term not found or recognized in our constsitution or statutes because it is the very definition of arbitrary abuse of power, with a soldier in the field, with a Pulitzer Prize winning historian, and of course, way back when, with political operative Dick Morris.
And we have had occasion to blog about blogs… our Dog Run, with its capsule summaries of hundreds of great blogs (some of which even still exist!) and our dog breed nomenclature was actually revolutionary… for whatever reason, no one else had bothered to try to catalog a large number of web logs in quite that way… had it been kept up, might well have made this blog popular beyond the select discerning few who are smart enough to read what they know is without doubt the most important fount of wisdom currently available on the planet. (And what the hell is with the “We” anyway?)
Mostly, we have made friends through blogging. Not merely on-line acquaintances (and we are delighted with those), but actual, real live flesh and blood human beings… The solitary pursuit of a lone blogger at the keyboard has led to actual social interaction between human beings… and quite a few… and some of the most interesting, lively and intelligent people I have had the privilege to have met…
So there you go. A world of fun, in every department. Four more years? At least… God willing… I wouldn’t miss it for the world.