Half a Million

This blog has hit a small milestone. Today it passed a half million hits since October of 2006! Approaching 14 years ... lots of words! Now, I am the first to admit that some of these hits ... my guess is over 100K but less than 200K have come from repeated bot hits ... emanating from Russia, the Ukraine and the United States. Why would someone target this blog is beyond me?

Anyhow, this Fletcher Castoria blog has shown a modest following ... generally uncommented on ... which I also can’t explain, other than, after I have opined, there is nothing more to add (tongue-in-cheek). And finally, kind readers, I get no compensation for all this effort. For another mysterious reason ... Google has not allowed me to include any ads along with my wisdom. This doesn’t bother me as I am just as happy knowing I might be having some small success moving the world toward sanity ... without cluttering your life with E.D. cures and My Pillow offers.

So. thank you for your attention and keep reading ... you kind readers. Maybe we can hit one full million before I run out of breath.

No Ads

Kind readers, you may have noticed that this blog has no advertising. This is on purpose. Early on (in 2006) I did allow Google to insert its hucksterisms into this blog, but then it started offering only public service ads … and then nothing. I think this was because I must have clicked on my own blog’s ad (horrors!) and some geek at Google thought I was trying to hype my own advertising income. I wasn’t and, as it turns out, I have never received one penny of pelf from the Blogspot people.

Later on, after this blog’s readership increased ten-fold and then one hundred-fold, the Blogspot-ers had a change of heart and offered incentives for me to return to Mad-Men land. I thought it over and decided, “No thanks. Why should I clutter up my feeble attempts to shed a little light on world matters with ads for hemorrhoid creams or mortgage refinancings?" So you now read these posts free of any commercialism and it shall remain so for as long as I can type this tripe.

And thank you for your readership.