Time to Reboot Cat-E-Whompus

I’ve been avoiding writing for this blog for some considerable time—months and months actually —not because I had nothing to say but rather because I’ve become increasingly aware that almost anything worth writing about or talking about on the subject of politics and political issues is already being written about and talked about ad nauseum by others. In many cases, I feel the others who write about politics and who advocate political positions are much better at doing so than I, even though my writings reflect strongly held beliefs and emotions about issues.

In many other cases, and particularly here in the North State, we have a group of wanna-be political pundits who masticate and regularly regurgitate the ideas of others, rarely adding an original thought of their own, and succeeding mostly in being simply boring and irrelevant. Their endeavors to influence North State readers will not benefit from my participation or input. Put another way, if I get down in the mud and wrestle with a pig, I get dirty and the pig loves it.

It is time to ‘change the subject’ of Cat-E-Whompus. There are many other topics besides politics that afford the opportunity for me to be more original in writing about and hopefully more appealing to readers as well. So, while I still may write about politics occasionally, and while I may sometimes advocate or lobby on certain issues that are politically charged, those topics will no longer be a major focus of the Cat-E-Whompus blog.

With this goal of diversification of topics in mind, let me briefly explain how I intend to go about ‘re-booting’ Cat-E-Whompus.

First, Cat-E-Whompus has a new look. Google has made available a new set of templates for Blogspot, the blog hosting service I use, and in general they are much more attractive and 'now' than the older templates. So I have chosen a brand new look that is intended to be more in synch with where I am now in authoring this blog.

A second major step I have already taken down many of my older posts. Many of these were on topics of yesterday’s news items that no longer are newsworthy enough to line the bottom of a bird cage. Quite a few of these pertain to the Iraq War and the Bush era, and to be very honest many of them reflect ideas and positions that I now feel very differently about than at the time I wrote the posts. As I re-read them, I found them tiresome, and so they are gone.

There are a few posts that have received a lot of interest as reflected in the hits they have received on the web, and for the most part, I intend to leave those up. But, the ranks of the older posts will be dramatically thinned.

From this point you will find new postings to be very different both in style and substance.