
What a ten years it has been!
Ten years ago, Friday February 20, 2009, a date which shall live in infamy, the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by a blogger calling himself Manhattan Infidel (then known as Manhattaninfidel.com until a disastrous database corruption in July 2013 forced me to reconstitute the blog as manhattaninfidel.org.)
When I started this blog I had no idea what the format or subject would be. I thought at first I’d make it a hiking blog. (My knees, alas, were ten years younger then.) However by the second week of writing I had settled into the format that I would keep for the next ten years (posts five days a week satirizing politics and popular culture with the Yankees thrown in.)
And it’s been an amazing ten years. I’ve had the opportunity to interact with people I never would have if I hadn’t started this blog. (Jim in Venezuela I hope you’re okay and have made it to the safety of Columbia!) Others from as far off as Australia and Texas (LSP keep up the good fight and don’t let the Democratic Socialists take your guns away) have become regular readers of my blog.
Blogging, like relationships, takes commitment, time and energy. (Or failing those pizza and beer.)
But after ten years, 2,467 posts and approximately 1,233,500 words it is time to say goodbye. I’ve been thinking about ending the blog for awhile now and almost did last year on my ninth anniversary but convinced myself to hang around another year.
Indeed part of me would like to continue blogging forever as the targets of opportunity to satirize have never been richer with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AKA “The Occasional Cortex”) fast becoming the future of the Democratic Socialists and our Deep State in the FBI and CIA turning themselves into the Keystone Cops with their efforts to stage a coup and overthrow the duly elected President.
Part of me would. But I also have to acknowledge the natural rhythm of events and that I am running out of things to say.
I sign off sadly but with pride at what I have been able to write the past ten years. For those who have become regular readers or those who dropped by only once I thank you for visiting my humble share of the blogosphere.
Don’t worry though. This blog isn’t going anywhere. I have put too much time into it to just take it down. It will be up for years to come. I invite all to peruse the archives.
And who knows, I may occasionally poke my head back in and write a post if something interests me (such as the start of our second Civil War.)
As for me when I started this blog I was working for NBC News. Since May of 2016 I have been working for CBS News. All this time in news has made me realize one thing: I have more respect for pedophiles than I do for news anchors, reporters, producers or writers. As it stands right now I am probably the only person in America trying to get out of television. I will continue sending out resumes and hopefully get a job far away from a television studio.
I fervently hope that our Republic founded upon the Constitution (the greatest document of human liberty ever devised by the hand of man) and a limited government will be able to survive the Deep State, the Democratic Socialists and the media.
I don’t have to tell you that things are tense in America now with the weaponization of the FBI and CIA, rogue special prosecutors and leftists who would take away our freedom and make us second class citizens. This tension has to be released somehow and unfortunately human nature being what it is will probably be released with violence. Whether the violence is confined to a few bombings and assassinations or a widespread civil war remains to be seen.
Once again I would like to thank all who have read my blog over the years.
So it’s goodbye for now. As I head into blogging retirement instead of expending my energies writing I shall spend it watching the Yankees on TV, drinking beer, propping my feet up and looking back at ten fun years.
Goodbye for now,
The Manhattan Infidel (Manhattan Infidel not valid where prohibited by law.)
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