As you can probably figure out from my own blog, I’m not one to put much stock in a lot of fancy gee-whiz stuff on a web page. But I have to make an exception for the redesigned Dust in the Light. Justin Katz has provided a visual treat to go with his verbal one. The site is so far beyond the ordinary, it requires a new URL.

I’ve been remiss, but I’ll let you know that Tanya’s back, reminding us of why we missed her when she was AWOL.

Some days are better than others. Yesterday, I read a post by Geitner Simmons (Cosmic injustice: we in St. Louis have Christine Bertelson, and Omaha has Geitner Simmons) about CBS pulling the hatchet from the back of a still alive yet not with us Ronald Reagan that linked to an Alan Henderson post on the same subject that linked to an article by Steven Cox about moral choice and risk assessment. The article is great, and you should go read it.

Alan Henderson linked to it because it points out how some myths from the sinking of the Titanic are included in every movie ever made about it. I think it does an even better job about talking about moral choice and risk assessment. I think we need to celebrate people who do the right thing more than we do because its hard to do. All too often, we like to talk about how good we would have been — a cheap and easy pasttime — rather than do anything about what confronts us in the here and now. I’d like to think I’d always do the right thing in a difficult circumstance, but I’m fully aware I can’t know for sure until I’m confronted with the choice.

The reason for my title is that Gietner updated the post to include my comment about reading the Cox article, and then I noticed he blogrolled me. Wow! OK, I’m sandwiched by Max Sawicky and Leonard Pitts, but still that’s an ego boost.

What’s going on? I hit Charles Austin’s blog, and he’s gone on hiatus for the rest of the month. Then I hit Tanya’s Blog, and she’s calling it quits. Archpundit went on a brief hiatus, and has now extended it. I know, I just don’t show up for weeks without explanation, which shows the difference between these quality bloggers and yours truly. Unlike John Waite, I can admit that I’m missing you guys.

Blogging is weird. You sit and write and hope people connect, but it’s hard to tell if anyone does. Sometimes, people vote on what I now call “quality”, which was originally called “karma”; but it’s really hard to tell what those votes mean. Rarely, someone leaves a comment, and you say to yourself, “yes! I am not alone in the void!”

I’m not complaining – believe me, you’ll know when I’m complaining. I check my referrer logs all the time trying to see if anyone is linking and how people get here. Since almost the very start, LEWISCOR.umsl.edu has been coming here. I don’t know who they are – if they’ve ever voted, if they’ve ever commented, but they keep coming back. Sometimes I won’t see them in the logs for a while, and I worry that I’ve been rejected – odd when you consider I have no idea who this person is that it should matter if they “reject” me. But then there they are and I’m happy – I have someone who chooses to come here knowing what they’re in for when they get here.