Where has time gone?
I missed the anniversary of the inaugural post on February 5th, but this month, South Dakota War College turned seventeen.. which is really, really old in blog years, considering that most blogs have a life of 2-years before authors tire of them, or get busy with other things.
There were a few South Dakota Blogs already established when I came along, but they eventually went by the wayside. Even the most long-lasting, Sibby Online, went silent in 2018, perked up for a bit in late 2020/early 2021, and has remained silent for the last year. I do understand the desire to to different things, as I left it to others at one point for about 18 months, but came back, and have been at the helm ever since, now for just a few months shy of the last decade.
In my minds eye, I see myself continuing to do this at least through 2026.. Which would get me past the blog’s 21st birthday.. and god help me, my 60th. It’s hard to think that I started blogging in my 30’s, and anticipate continuing to do so into my 60’s. If that doesn’t give a person a sense of mortality, I’m not sure what else does.
But really, when you’ve been riding with the blogging monkey on your back for this long, it’s probably not going to be a habit that is so easily given up.
Stay tuned! At least through our 18th!
Congratulations on making it this far. It is unusual for something like this to be around this long. There have been many changes over the years. I remember when this blog was instrumental in bringing down one of the biggest swamp creatures, Tom Daschle. I remember when this blog was not so much the establishment, but one that bucked the establishment. How things have change. At one time contrarian opinions would be tolerated, but today, just mention a therapeutic that starts with an “I” and it gets knocked off, even when that is the topic.
Seriously, you are calling Daschle one of the biggest swamp creature when we suffered through 4 years of the orange one and all his inept family and cronies.
We had four glorious years of President Trump. He led us to an economy better than any in my lifetime. He also had NATO actually doing something beside sucking off the teat of the US. And as 60% of normal people agree, Putin would not be doing what he is doing if President Trump were in office. And yes, Daschle was one of the ultimate swamp creatures and John Thune has become one as well. Your moniker tells it all.
duggersd: Pull that tinfoil hat down a little farther around your ears. “He (Trump) surrounded himself with sycophants, including many whack jobs from outside the government, who fed him a steady diet of comforting but unsupported conspiracy theories.” Former Attorney General William Barr. Trump “has shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed,” writes Barr, per the Wall Street Journal. He urges Republicans to look instead toward “an impressive array of younger candidates” without Tumps’s “erratic personal behavior.”
“The election was not ‘stolen,'” Barr writes. “Trump lost it.” He adds that Trump could have won had he “exercised a modicum of self-restraint, moderating even a little of his pettiness.”
“Trump cared only about one thing: himself,” writes Barr, per the Washington Post. “Country and principle took second place.”
Barr asserts that Trump “lost his grip” after the election, per the New York Times. “He stopped listening to his advisers, became manic and unreasonable, and was off the rails,” Barr writes.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Next year DWC can vote… and be drafted—-18 🙂
Thanks for writing an informative, engaging blog all these years.
May there be many years of blogging ahead.
Cheers.
Congrats on your 17-year run!