The rise and fall of political posting on Facebook

For a while, it really appeared that Facebook was going to make this blog obsolete. It was so much easier and quicker to just put something up on Facebook. And it got immediate reaction, which was often quite, uh, lively.

But the "lively" discussion was a little too much so at times. There was more than one discussion that crossed a line or three, and after a while I found myself just not wanting to respond to FB friends' political posts; they knew where I stood, I knew where they stood, it was just becoming an exercise in bickering.

And guess what--that feeling seems to have become pretty common. A lot of my very conservative friends have, like me, cut way back on the political posts. In my case, I still do post occasionally on health care or some other topic, but I try not to provoke anyone with snide comments or pointed rhetoric. Facebook is a place for friends, after all.

So here I am, back at the old Mod Lang, wiping the dust off the shelf, cleaning out the old milk cartons from the fridge, uh, extending metaphors far past their usefulness...

And it gives me an excuse to post (again) the latest Auto tune the news; not as good as some of their stuff, but any lowbrow political satire that namedrops Gilgamesh is still worth seeing, in my book.