“Random thoughts” is where I loosen up a little bit and discuss some of the less serious things of the week.

This article covers the new West Virginia blogs popping up, Senator Sprouse’s blog, and the Patriots for Peace.

I haven’t done the random thoughts for the week in a coon’s age. Hold on, it’s going to be a long post. BTW, exactly how long is a coon’s age? I’m guessing 12 years.

West Virginia has two new blogs:

* http://dansperspective.blogspot.com/
* http://daintyeveningstar.blogspot.com/

Go make their day and say hi.

Don Blankenship has also made his mark with a new website for “And for the sake of the kids.”

Nick Casey will doubtless be going around the state blowing up computers and shouting, “Don Blankenship, the internet isn’t for sale!” Of course, if the Democrats had any sense they could make their own webpages to counteract what Blankenship says, but that would require an actual discourse on the facts. They don’t like the facts. I’ve learned that when I point out the wretched condition of our state and the fact that the Democrat’s have controlled it for over 70 years they get a little testy to say the least.

Senator Vic Sprouse is chugging right along with his blog. I must say it is one of the few blogs I have enjoyed from the very first post.

When my blog started getting wide scale attention around March 2005, Democrats accused me of letting Sprouse ghostwrite it. The thought of that still makes me chuckle.

Now that Sprouse has his own blog, there are rumors circulating that I am ghostwriting for him! The first Democrat to tell me he believed I was writing for Sprouse later confessed he had never read Sprouse’s blog!

Hopefully the recent differences in our blogs will put all the rumors to rest: Sprouse supported the Charleston user fee and I opposed it. I supported Mark Scott for Chairman and Sprouse was behind McKinney.

Maybe I should have let him surreptitiously write my blog: he won on both issues!

I don’t know for sure if I was the reason, but I am going to claim responsibility anyway for stopping the Patriots for Peace’s from getting an Elvis impersonator to dance in protest to the President. I broke the story, much to their chagrin, on of their plans and they apparently changed some of it.

I have also learned that the so-called Patriots for Peace and other crazies (not my description, his) do not like to be referred to as hippies. References to tie-die shirts, Birkenstocks, or drugs will just about make the “peace lovers” lose all their peacefulness, so I’ll give them a break this time and not say what everyone else knows to be true.

Charles of the Charlestonian blog, however, was not afraid to mention their sly reference to the drug culture. Those Patriots for Peace are clever!

Have a great weekend!