Ladies and Gentlemen, the State of the Blog is good. This last September we saw our highest traffic ever, and that traffic is continuing to uptrend. September brought us our first ever guest contribution from sometime blogger Joel, and it also brought us our first ever reader submitted contribution from reader Jason. The little map over on the right hand side of the page, courtesy of Dale's ECB, has continued to get bluer and bluer, and that is what this is ultimately all about. We can only hope that these positive trends continue through October and all the way to November 3, when we all wake up knowing that we've secured the future of the free world for another 4 years by re-electing George W. Bush President of the United States of America.

As our longtime readers may know, every first of the month we like to publish a list of our top blog referrers, our way of saying "thanks" to those who've sent traffic our way. Be sure to check them out, they can't be all bad if they're linking to us. ;-)